01 / CINEMATIC FRONTEND
Anyone Home
Custom GSAP timelines, ScrollTrigger interactions, and responsive implementation inside a real WordPress production site.
JavaScriptGSAPWordPressPHP
RYAN SHORT / WEB DEVELOPER / PHP · JAVASCRIPT · WEB SYSTEMS
I BUILD FORTHE WHOLESTACK.
I’m Ryan, a web developer who builds the experiences people see and the systems behind them. I work across cinematic GSAP interfaces, custom PHP and WordPress plugins, and reusable marketing integrations for a multi-brand web portfolio.
20+ web properties supported
Cross-site UTM attribution
Custom PHP & WordPress plugins
SCROLL TO EXPLORE01 / AN ORBITAL STUDY
[ 01 / THE APPROACH ]MORE THAN A PRETTY INTERFACE
Creative on the surface.
Technical underneath.
I make ambitious designs work in real browsers, and the systems behind them work across real businesses. My work ranges from GSAP-powered interfaces to custom CMS functionality and a reusable attribution system connecting website visits, Marketo forms, and Salesforce.
Get to know my toolkit
01 / SCALE
20+
Residential and headquarters web properties in the portfolio I've supported.
02 / INFRASTRUCTURE
ONE SYSTEM.
Reusable UTM attribution logic built for deployment across multiple brands, not one-off form hacks.
03 / OWNERSHIP
END TO END.
Frontend implementation, CMS architecture, third-party integrations, debugging, and release validation.
BEYONDTHE SURFACE.BUILT TO LAST.
Design earns attention.
Engineering earns trust.
[ 02 / SELECTED WORK ]BUILT WITH PURPOSE
Proof is in
the projects.
Four ways I solve problems: cinematic frontend work, multi-brand web systems, marketing attribution, and modern content architecture.
02 / PLATFORM ENGINEERING
Multi-brand Web Systems
Custom PHP templates, WordPress plugins, and reusable web systems built to solve real problems across multiple brand sites.
PHPWordPressJavaScriptCMS
03 / BACKEND & INTEGRATIONS
Marketing Data Pipeline
Built a shared UTM capture system that persists campaign context, honors consent, and populates Marketo fields for Salesforce.
JavaScriptMarketoSalesforceCookies
04 / MODERN WEB ARCHITECTURE
Astro Website Modernization
Prototyped an Astro rebuild of a legacy marketing site with structured Git-backed content, reusable layouts, and a portable editing layer.
AstroPages CMSGitHubCloudflare
MORE THAN ONE WEBSITE / MORE THAN ONE DISCIPLINE
The range behind the work.
Live brand work, in-progress explorations, custom PHP, plugins, and production problem-solving. Pick an area, or explore the full picture.
CAMPAIGN EXPERIENCEDeveloped
GROW Learning
Interactive campaign landing pages, blog templates, and filtering interfaces built within an existing WordPress/Divi ecosystem.
SITE MODERNIZATIONDeveloped
ValenceDocs
Brand-aligned Divi 5 solution pages and blog layouts with reusable patterns and careful content fidelity.
MODERNIZATION PROTOTYPEProof of concept
AMS Billing
A multi-page Astro rebuild exploring structured content, maintainable components, and an editing layer that can change later.
INTERACTIVE MICROSITEDeveloped
Inhabit OpTech
A connected, interactive single-page experience using tailored frontend motion within an established WordPress environment.
FRONTEND EXPLORATIONIn development
TenantTech
Modernization work exploring a two-stage hero, staggered card reveals, and testimonial interactions in Divi 5.
REDESIGN PLANNINGPlanning
ResMan
Redesign planning for a larger content-driven site with search/filter requirements, custom post types, and reusable brand patterns.
CUSTOM WORDPRESS PLUGINBuilt
Keyword-Aware Alt Text
A purpose-built WordPress plugin for updating image alt text with keyword-aware content workflows.
CUSTOM PHP TEMPLATESBuilt
Search & Filter Output
Custom Search & Filter output templates controlling how filtered WordPress content is rendered and presented.
MARKETING INTEGRATIONSImplemented
Forms & Routing
Marketo form embeds, hidden field handling, lead routing, and reusable landing-page patterns across marketing websites.
PRODUCTION QAOngoing
Accessibility & Site QA
Global accessibility improvements, responsive debugging, interactive-content refinement, and fixes across shared templates.
These summaries describe my specific contributions. A link to a brand’s current public website is context, not a claim that I built every page or that the live design is identical to my work. Concept and in-progress work are labeled accordingly.
Prefer code to screenshots?
Explore the public GitHub repo I’ve also published an early UTM capture prototype. It’s a starting point; the production implementation grew into a consent-aware, multi-brand integration.
Selected contributions from my work on employer projects; scopes and results are described without proprietary source code or internal data. Anyone Home uses a public-facing site capture. Other feature visuals are original conceptual illustrations. The Astro project is a proof of concept, not a completed company-wide rollout.
A LITTLE PHILOSOPHY
MAKE IT WORK.
MAKE IT MATTER.
Good engineering is invisible. Great experiences aren't.[ 03 / THE TOOLKIT ]WHAT I BRING TO THE TABLE
Creative experiences.
Engineering underneath.
From what visitors experience to the integration and deployment details they never see.
01
Frontend & motion
Build polished, responsive experiences with GSAP timelines, ScrollTrigger, detailed interaction work, and reduced-motion support.
02
Backend & integrations
Develop custom PHP and WordPress plugins, tailored Search & Filter output templates, and consent-aware marketing integrations that connect websites to business systems.
03
CMS & web architecture
Maintain complex WordPress and Divi websites while evaluating Astro, Git-backed content, and deployable, reusable frontend systems.
[ 04 / THE PERSON ]BEHIND THE KEYBOARD
THE
SHORT
VERSION.
Hi, I'm Ryan. I build the experiences people remember and take responsibility for the systems that keep them working.
At Inhabit, I’ve worked across a large portfolio of property technology websites, building WordPress plugins and custom PHP templates alongside animation-heavy frontend experiences and shared marketing integrations. I care just as much about the unglamorous details: troubleshooting production issues, preserving content, and keeping the next developer’s job manageable.
More recently, I’ve been prototyping Astro-based content architecture as an alternative to tightly coupled legacy builds. And yes, occasionally I still make the animations a little excessive. For science.
THE FOUNDATION / BEFORE & BEYOND AI
Fundamentals first.
Fundamentals first.
Better tools second.
I learned web development before AI-assisted coding became commonplace by building things, breaking things, debugging them, and figuring out why they worked. I use modern tools, including AI, to move faster. But I still believe in understanding the code, questioning the output, and leaving behind something the next developer can maintain.
2025 - PRESENTWeb DeveloperInhabit
2023 - 2025Senior Web DeveloperIdentity Dental Marketing
2019 - 2023Independent DeveloperShort Web Development
/ A LITTLE EXPERIMENT
Built to
Built to
play.
Good developers experiment. Move your cursor around the field and see what happens.
[ 05 / WHAT'S NEXT? ]LET'S MAKE SOMETHING