Web developer: Drupal, WordPress, fundraising tech, Marketo email
I build and look after websites, mostly Drupal and WordPress, mostly for nonprofits and universities. A lot of that work is the plumbing behind online giving.
Available for part-time and project work.
Case study
A membership and online-course business
Logged-in pages took 6 to 7 seconds and three people had offered three different reasons. The real cause was measured, fixed, and the site moved to hosting the owner controls in a five-minute window.
The University of Chicago
The university's flagship magazine, carried from Drupal 6 all the way to Drupal 11.
The University of Chicago
Moved the university from Blackbaud Luminate to GiveCampus without breaking a single existing giving link.
The University of Chicago
Marketo administration and small apps on its API that removed a review bottleneck.
The University of Chicago
Bulletproof Marketo newsletter templates, including a working table of contents.
Grouped by the kind of problem each project solved.
Slow, fragile, or inherited from someone who left. I find out why by measuring, fix what matters first, and then keep it healthy.
Int'l Affiliate Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics
Ongoing WordPress troubleshooting, maintenance and feature work for an international dietetics association.
FVA / Tampa Bay Veg Fest
WordPress support for a plant-based advocacy nonprofit.
Cook County, IL
Theme customization and ongoing care for Cook County's public land agency.
Hydro Inc.
Folded a separate Drupal site for every facility worldwide into one WordPress Multisite with one custom theme.
Fine art gallery, Chicago
Rescued an abandoned Flash-based fine-art inventory site after its developer quit.
The University of Chicago
Accessibility audits and fixes across web, email and giving platforms.
UChicago and personal projects
S3 for Drupal files and off-site backups, Lightsail for hosting and development.
Twenty years of Drupal, from version 6 through 11. Upgrades, migrations, custom themes, and the long care that comes after.
The University of Chicago
The university's flagship magazine, carried from Drupal 6 all the way to Drupal 11.
The University of Chicago
A custom Drupal events site with a live Cvent-powered guest list.
UChicago Laboratory Schools
A Drupal event site with a live giving-progress dashboard for each school unit.
The University of Chicago
Took over the university's campaign site for administration, fixes and new features.
Digital Kitchen (creative agency)
A Drupal intranet that IT set as every staff browser's homepage.
UR Chicago (entertainment news)
A Drupal entertainment-news site with playlists of local bands.
Center for Human Reproduction
A custom PHP and MySQL tool for matching egg donors with clients.
Consumer brand (agency work)
A mobile event guide with session schedules and a zoomable venue map.
The whole path a gift takes: tracked link, email, landing page, giving page, report. Luminate, GiveCampus, and the glue between them.
The University of Chicago
Moved the university from Blackbaud Luminate to GiveCampus without breaking a single existing giving link.
The University of Chicago
A self-service app on the GiveCampus API for prefilled, tracked giving links.
UChicago Medicine (MBSD)
Peer-to-peer event fundraising on Blackbaud TeamRaiser, including CRM admin and reporting.
The University of Chicago
Custom Blackbaud Luminate donation-page templates, including Chicago Booth.
UChicago Medicine (MBSD)
A giving site kept running across a Drupal to WordPress migration.
The University of Chicago
A giving-day site with a real-time dashboard of every unit's progress.
GA4 and Tag Manager with consent done properly, hand-coded email that survives Outlook, and three Salesforce certifications.
UChicago and client sites
GA4 migrations for a dozen high-profile sites, custom Tag Manager work, cross-domain and donation tracking.
The University of Chicago
Moved a Drupal alumni site into Salesforce with a public Experience Cloud front end.
The University of Chicago
Marketo administration and small apps on its API that removed a review bottleneck.
Food Bank of the Rockies
Responsive email templates for Blackbaud Luminate, across a five-year freelance engagement.
The University of Chicago
Bulletproof Marketo newsletter templates, including a working table of contents.
South Jersey Industries
Responsive customer email templates for two regional gas utilities.
Consumer-electronics brand (agency work)
Trade-show landing pages, registration forms and emails for desktop and mobile.
Two decades of creative tinkering.
Personal project
A personal Drupal community kept alive for about 20 years, across every major version.
Ray-Ban Envision winner
Kinect-driven live visuals and MIDI. Winner of Ray-Ban's Envision Series.
I'm Joe Hahn. I've built and looked after websites for over twenty years, and I've run Drupal since version 6. Most of that time was at the University of Chicago, where I kept the university's magazine, alumni sites and giving pages running through every Drupal upgrade from 6 to 11. I also moved the university from one online giving platform to another without breaking a single existing donation link.
Now I work independently as Tru Design. Mostly that means WordPress and Drupal sites for small businesses and nonprofits. Often the slow ones, or the ones inherited from someone who left.
I'd rather tell you a thing is out of scope than bill you for learning it. I'll also tell you when you don't need me.
For a role or a project, email is best. I read everything.
I also keep WordPress and Drupal sites healthy on a flat monthly plan, and fix the ones that are slow or stuck with a vendor who left. Plans start at $129 a month.