Professional Work

I currently work full time as Online Content Coordinator for the Grand Forks Herald. In this capacity I work on several Herald-owned websites such as Agweek.com and PrairieBizMag.com, among many others.

I also work as a free agent online contractor (web designer) as proprietor of J. E. Greenwood Online Contracting. If you need a website, or any other sort of online assistance, get in touch with me.

One of my coolest jobs is working as webmaster for Vintage Guitar magazine. Published monthly since 1986 by my dad’s brother Alan, Vintage Guitar is widely accepted as a leading guitar publication and the number one source for vintage instrument enthusiasts. Hard to even begin to explain how awesome this ‘zine is, dude, you just gotta check it out.

I have a very diverse work history, and a solid education. If you’re interested in the details, please feel free to view my resume.

The Latest from Greenwood Online's World Wide Web Adventures!

GFPreservation.com

The Grand Forks Historic Preservation Commission website [gfpreservation.com] is built on WordPress. It uses a custom theme we developed here at Greenwood Online, and has some interesting functionality – such as the rotating images that fill the top of the page, and the accordion expand-on-mouse-hover menu along the left side of the page.

We learned a few new things in the course of working on this project, such as how to eliminate borders around text links when they’re clicked upon, and how to wrap HTML text around an image.

And, we enjoyed the opportunity to use a custom get_posts query for the next post where post_status=future, in order to display the next Commission meeting date in the sidebar (and have it go away after the date passes, and display the next one). Neat stuff!

For the sake of preserving yet another piece of Grand Forks history, here is a screenshot of what the previous version of the website looked like before we put up the new design!
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