Need help improving an existing WordPress website without sharing every account password? A safer...Need help improving an existing WordPress website without sharing every account password? A safer...
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Need help improving an existing WordPress website without sharing every account password?
A safer project setup usually starts with the minimum access required for the agreed work. Depending on the task, useful preparation may include:
a clear list of the pages, errors, or improvements in scope
a fresh backup before changes begin
a staging copy for testing when available
a separate temporary WordPress administrator account
hosting or file access only when the task genuinely requires it
client-owned licences for premium themes and plugins
test details that do not expose real customer or payment information
an agreed handover and access-removal step after completion
I can help review WordPress layout and responsive issues, performance concerns, theme or plugin conflicts, troubleshooting, and existing-site improvements.
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Armor360 needed a full website redesign, something that actually looked like a serious security company, not another generic template with a shield icon and a stock photo of a hacker in a hoodie. I handled the whole redesign myself, from the initial design to the finished, working website, plus separate landing pages for their individual products.
What I did:
I designed the site with a bento style layout and a dark theme: deep charcoal backgrounds, violet to cyan neon gradients, and glowing glass style panels. Once the client approved the design, I built it out fully in WordPress with Elementor, and added two more landing pages for their products, idgard and GateKeeper, keeping the same look and feel throughout.
I also added scroll animations using GSAP that fade sections in as you scroll. Instead of manually tagging every element, I set it up to target Elementor's own layout classes automatically, so new sections animate correctly on their own without extra setup work later.
Tools used: WordPress, Elementor, GSAP, custom CSS and JavaScript
Wiring GSAP to Elementor's own layout classes instead of tagging each element is the move that keeps this maintainable, new sections animate on their own with zero rework later. Did you throttle the fade triggers on mobile to keep the scroll feeling smooth?
This is one of those projects that starts as a simple redesign, but the more you dig into the business, the more you realize the foundations aren’t quite clear.
It made me think a lot about how to help users understand something that requires a high level of specialized knowledge. At some point, it became clear that simply proposing a new design wasn’t what this project was really about.
The reality was that, regardless of how the website looked, understanding a law firm with so much technical language was intimidating for users. So I proposed a new communication strategy that would allow us to restructure the website around a clearer journey — one that guided users through the firm, helped them understand what the business actually does, and made it easier for them to recognize themselves in the services being offered.
What started as a redesign eventually became a much deeper project: redefining the communication strategy, reworking the copy, restructuring the practice areas, and only then rethinking the visual design.
It was one of those projects that really makes you think, and I genuinely loved every part of it.
And if you’re curious enough to see the whole thing, you can find it right here