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Conner King,Web Developer.

Web developer building fast, precise sites for marine propulsion, shipbuilding, legal and hospitality brands, from 100-year heritage archives to spec-driven product finders.

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Birmingham, AL · 10+ Years · 50+ Projects · +68% Organic YoY, 22 firm sites · Merit Media Marketing / The Hive

Selected work

5 case studies · newest first

Ashton Marine

Merit Media Marketing · 2026 · launching

A tug and barge operator working the Great Lakes, the inland rivers and the Gulf, with a dedicated heavy-lift and project cargo division. Nine pages from the outgoing agency, rebuilt from nothing as a custom WordPress theme with a page for every tug and barge, now on staging and launching in place of the old site.

58
photos stripped of GPS and customer names, 1.3 GB down to 36 MB
13
spec-sheet PDFs kept at their original URLs
8
vessels modelled from the client's own spec sheet
WordPressCustom themeACF blocksBrand applicationMigrationAccessibility
Read the case studyNot live yet
Homepage · ashtontugs.comhover to scroll the page
Ashton Marine project cargo page
Project cargo
M/V Meredith Ashton vessel page with its spec table
Vessel page

Karl Senner

Merit Media Marketing · 2026

The exclusive North American distributor for REINTJES marine gearboxes and Steerprop azimuth thrusters. Twenty-plus technical product pages, rebuilt as a navigable catalogue with a spec-driven finder on top.

20+
Product pages built
180+
Models in the finder
250–30k
kW range documented
WordPressCustom HTML/CSS/JSTechnical SEO
Read the case studyVisit karlsenner.com ↗
Product page · karlsenner.comhover to scroll the page
Gearbox finder in action
Gearbox finder
DLG series specifications
Specifications

NABRICO Marine

Merit Media Marketing · 2026

A Tennessee bridge builder that became one of the largest inland barge builders in the world. Founded 1902, newly independent, and needing a site that carried the whole story.

124 years, one scroll

WordPressACFCustom TypeRebrand
Read the case studyVisit nabricomarine.com ↗
Heritage · nabricomarine.comhover to scroll the page
NABRICO about page
About
NABRICO components catalogue
Components

The Astrid

The Hive · 2025

A ski-in, ski-out luxury residential community in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Pre-launch, high-ticket, and entirely dependent on how the building feels on screen.

Video on hover

Elementor ProGSAPGoHighLevelVideo hover
Read the case studyVisit theastrid.com ↗
Homepage · theastrid.comhover to scroll the page
The Astrid residences landing page
Residences
The Astrid journal
Journal

Ítaca

The Hive · 2025

A family-led hospitality group in Guatemala: four restaurants, two hostels and a beachfront villa, from black-sand surf on the Pacific coast to lakefront mornings on Lake Atitlán.

5 destinations, 1 loyalty club

BlocksyElementor ProFluent FormsCustom Typeface
Read the case studyVisit itacagroup.com ↗
Homepage · itacagroup.comhover to scroll the page
Our Destinations page: the restaurants, then the hostels with restaurants, each card with its own pair of buttons
Destinations
Loyalty Program page: the sign-up reward beside the sign-up form
Loyalty

About

Birmingham, AL
Conner King
Conner King · Web Developer · Birmingham, AL

I build the sites industrial companies actually need.

Four builds this year, none of them alike: a 124-year river-history archive, a twenty-page technical gearbox catalogue with a live spec finder, a pre-launch luxury residence site, and a bilingual hospitality group on a Guatemalan lake. Each one arrived as a pile of PDFs, photography and half-finished ideas, and left as something a buyer could actually navigate.

Day to day that means WordPress at depth: theme and builder customisation, ACF content architecture, and custom HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP wherever the builder runs out. Then the parts people forget, like DNS, SSL, migrations, staging, caching, Core Web Vitals, GA4 and Search Console.

I sit in the client meetings, translate what gets said into something buildable, and then build it. B.S. in Computer Informatics, ten years of production work, and a habit of taking on the projects nobody else wants to scope.

Scope
Design through deploy
Depth
WordPress, ACF, custom code
Proof
+68% organic, 22 firm sites
Now Merit Media Marketing
Also The Hive
Sector Maritime & Industrial
Builds 50+ shipped

Experience

2018 to present
Feb 2026 to present
Merit Media Marketing
Web Developer

End-to-end development, redesign and optimisation of WordPress sites for maritime, vessel, marine propulsion, shipbuilding, inland transportation and industrial clients. Front-end and back-end, hosting and DNS through to technical SEO and conversion tracking.

Aug 2025 to present
The Hive
Web Developer

High-performance WordPress sites and landing pages for SMB, SaaS, real estate, travel and professional-services clients. Figma to production in Elementor, Divi, Blocksy, ACF and Gutenberg, with CRO and Core Web Vitals as the brief, not an afterthought.

2024 to 2025
Green Cardigan Marketing
SEO Coordinator · Birmingham, AL

Led SEO strategy, audits and long-term growth plans across 22+ law-firm sites, driving a 68% year-over-year lift in organic traffic. Coded and styled pages across Divi, Elementor, WPBakery, Beaver Builder and Gutenberg while publishing 40 to 60 pages a month.

2023 to 2024
Gilmore Law Firm
Web Designer & Digital Strategist · Selma, AL

Led a full website redesign for user experience and accessibility, applied advanced SEO and analytics, and worked directly with the attorneys to turn legal services into content people could actually navigate.

2018 to 2024
Classopoly
Lead Web Designer · Birmingham, AL

Built and ran an interactive educational platform with custom functionality for students and educators, improving interaction and scalability while managing day-to-day platform operations.

2022
University of Montevallo
B.S. Computer Informatics, 2022 · Dean's List · President's List
CertsResponsive Web Design · Front End Development Libraries · JavaScript Algorithms & Data Structures
AlsoData analytics with Python, R, SQL, Power BI · Graphic design in Adobe CS, Figma, Procreate · Cryptocurrency technologies

Stack

28 tools, no logos
PlatformPHP · WordPress · ACF Pro · Elementor · Divi · Blocksy · WooCommerce
Front endJavaScript · TypeScript · HTML · CSS & SCSS · React · GSAP · Tailwind
InfrastructureWP Engine · Kinsta
MeasurementGA4 · GTM · Semrush · Figma
AlsoAngular · Svelte · C# · .NET · Golang · Rails · Shopify · three.js