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Conner King

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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Karl Senner WAF 665 product page Karl Senner Gearbox catalogue NABRICO heritage archive NABRICO 124-year archive The Astrid homepage The Astrid Luxury pre-launch Itaca homepage Itaca Lake Atitlán group
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KARL SENNER NABRICO MARINE THE ASTRID ITACA WINTECH SYNTECHNICS ENVIRO-SPAN HOLMES LAW TEAM GILMORE LAW FIRM CLASSOPOLY
01 About

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, five 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
Birmingham, AL B.S. Computer Informatics Available for work
Conner King
Conner King
Web Developer
Now
Merit Media Marketing
Also
The Hive
Sector
Maritime & Industrial
Builds
50+ shipped
02 Selected work

Four builds

Each one a different problem: a technical catalogue, a century of history, a luxury launch, and a hospitality group in Guatemala.

01 Merit Media Marketing

Karl Senner

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.

WordPress Custom HTML/CSS/JS Technical SEO VISIT SITE ↗
20+
Product pages built
180+
Models in the finder
250–30k
kW range documented
16
REINTJES series covered
Pages I built Hover to play
WAF/LAF 665 product page Product page WAF/LAF 665 to 1973 Gearbox finder in action Gearbox finder Live spec filtering DLG series specifications Specifications DLG / DUG series
Workboat application
Workboat
Dredging application
Dredging
Naval and government application
Naval & Government
Fast vessel application
Fast Vessel
The problem

Gearbox specifications live in dense German engineering PDFs. Buyers needed to compare torque, ratios, duty cycles and configurations across a dozen series without downloading anything.

The build

A repeatable product-page template (hero, overview, versions, specification tables, duty cycles, downloads) applied across WAF/LAF, DLG, VA, SVA/SVAL, RDG, RHS, VLJ, WF, WGF, AF and EF/EFS.

Going further

The gearbox finder takes engine power and shaft speed, converts kW to HP live, filters by housing material and duty cycle, and ranks the whole REINTJES program by best fit, including the model that sits just under spec.

02 Merit Media Marketing

NABRICO Marine

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.

WordPress ACF Custom Type Rebrand VISIT SITE ↗
Pages I built Hover to play
NABRICO heritage archive Heritage A Century on the River NABRICO about page About Independent, and built to last NABRICO components catalogue Components The full catalog at a glance
The heritage page

Rather than a paragraph of company history, I built a museum-style archive: a scrollable exhibit that walks through bridges, steamboats, towboats and tank barges, decade by decade, from period photography and newspaper clippings.

Custom typefaces (Ballinger and Matrole) carry the industrial voice. A brand gateway ties NABRICO together with Wintech, SynTechnics, Gebuwin and Enviro-Span under one family without flattening any of them.

Explore the archive ↗
The Bridge Building, NABRICO's original Nashville headquarters
The Bridge Building · Nashville, est. 1908
Archive exhibits Drag →
Arthur J. Dyer, founder
1902
Arthur J. Dyer founds the company
The Bull Calf
1915
First floating hull for the Corps of Engineers
WWII minesweeper
1940s
Minesweepers built for the war effort
Towboat Dixie
1950s
Towboats for the inland river system
NABRICO facility
Today
Standalone again under Wynnchurch Capital
Hopper barge
Hopper
Tank barge
Tank
Deck barge
Deck
03 The Hive

The Astrid

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.

Elementor Pro GSAP GoHighLevel Video hover VISIT SITE ↗
Pages I built Hover to play
The Astrid homepage Homepage Private luxury living The Astrid residences landing page Residences Buyer-facing landing page The Astrid journal Journal Editorial index
Brief

Sell residences that do not exist yet. Everything on the page had to do the work a site visit normally would: renders, terrain, light, the feeling of the mountain in February.

Motion

Amenity cards play silent video on hover and fall back to a still on touch. GSAP handles the sequencing, with a preload strategy so nothing janks on first interaction.

Capture

Private-preview requests route straight into GoHighLevel, so the sales team works one pipeline instead of an inbox. Every form is tracked end to end in GA4.

Mountain view from The Astrid
The Astrid residences exterior
The Astrid frontage
04 The Hive

Itaca

A hospitality group on Lake Atitlán, Guatemala: hotels, restaurants and a pier, spread across volcano-lined shoreline, sold to travellers in two languages.

Blocksy ACF Pro Multilingual Custom Typeface VISIT SITE ↗
Pages I built Hover to play
Itaca homepage Homepage Where every journey leads Itaca featured locations Locations Luna y Sol and the lake Itaca venue pages Venues One template, many voices
Lake Atitlán and its volcanoes
One brand, many properties

Itaca runs several distinct venues: Luna y Sol, El Gato Perdido, Driftwood Surfer. Each has its own menus, hours and personality. ACF field groups let one template serve them all while keeping each property's voice intact.

Built for arrival

Guests browse from a plane or a boat dock. The site is image-heavy by necessity, so everything is aggressively optimised: lazy loading, right-sized media, and Perfmatters trimming what WordPress ships by default.

Luna y Sol El Gato Perdido Driftwood Surfer
Sunrise over Lake Atitlán
Itaca property
Luna y Sol pier
03 Experience
Merit Media Marketing
Web Developer
Feb 2026 to present

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.

The Hive
Web Developer
Aug 2025 to present

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.

Green Cardigan Marketing
SEO Coordinator
2024 to 2025 · 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.

Gilmore Law Firm
Web Designer & Digital Strategist
2023 to 2024 · 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.

Classopoly
Lead Web Designer
2018 to 2024 · 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.

Education
University of Montevallo
B.S. Computer Informatics, 2022
Dean's List · President's List
Certifications
Responsive Web Design Front End Development Libraries JavaScript Algorithms & Data Structures
Also does
Data analytics with Python, R, SQL, Power BI Graphic design in Adobe CS, Figma, Procreate Cryptocurrency technologies
Stack
JavaScript/ TypeScript/ HTML/ CSS & SCSS/ PHP/ React/ Angular/ Svelte/ C#/ .NET/ Golang/ Rails/ WordPress/ ACF Pro/ Elementor/ Divi/ Blocksy/ WooCommerce/ Shopify/ GSAP/ three.js/ Tailwind/ GA4/ GTM/ Semrush/ Figma/ WP Engine/ Kinsta
05 Contact

Let's build
something.

Email connerk4@gmail.com Phone (334) 221-9185 LinkedIn /itskingzman GitHub /ItsKingzman
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