March for the Heart is an annual giving challenge hosted by Academy of the Sacred Heart in St. Charles, Missouri, which invites alumni, families, and friends to pledge donations and spread the word.
Visit the demo site: willyates.org/march
A mobile-friendly source for Frame Data in Street Fighter 6 and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Light weight and fast loading, UFD has been well-received by the fighting game community, attracting 350,000+ monthly pageviews and over 27.5 million total pageviews as of early 2024.
Visit the live site: ultimateframedata.com
Fully redesigned in 2018 and updated again in 2024, the Academy of the Sacred Heart website is fully mobile responsive and uses two different logo SVGs to swap between a wider logo on desktop and the school’s traditional crest on mobile.
Visit the demo site: willyates.org/ash1818org
Configuring access to Settings and Control Panel — Windows Server GPO – a tech guide for Windows Server admins
Tanks and Active Mitigation in World of Warcraft: Legion – referenced in WoWPedia as a source and had significant user engagement on Reddit.
The official logo, flyer, banner, and sponsorship documents for Smash Out 2019, the largest charity fighting game event in St. Louis hosted by SLU eSports. The logo is an homage to Akira by Katsuhiro Ôtomo.
Social Media graphics for Urban Chestnut Brewing Company’s Gaming events, hosted at their location on Washington Ave.
These landing pages were created for the Academy of the Sacred Heart and used for ads on Google, Facebook, Twitter, in Newsletters, etc.
Resumes that I’ve been contracted to design.
Logo for use by an MMO gaming clan. Used on Facebook, Twitter, Twitch, etc.
Website for The Academy of the Sacred Heart’s 200th birthday in 2018.
A complete video guide to playing Guile in Street Fighter V, Season 1. Season 3 was released in January of 2018, so it’s due for another installment.
Comprehensive and intuitive, The SFV Guidebook covers everything a new player needs to know about Street Fighter V. This video series has over 70,000 views on YouTube.
Using Gravity Forms for WordPress, I’ve created hundreds of web forms over the years: online payments and donations, field trips, event tickets, maintenance requests, etc. With Trello integration, I significantly streamlined maintenance workflow at The Academy of the Sacred Heart.
The Parent Portal for the Academy of the Sacred Heart. Fully mobile-responsive with a dynamic drop-down / hamburger menu hybrid based on Responsive-Nav.
I used to stream quite a bit on Twitch.tv. I’ve been out of the game for a while now, but maybe someday I’ll get back into it. These graphics were one way that I promoted streams via Twitter.
My personal gaming blog — I wanted the site’s design to be extremely minimalist to keep the attention on the writing. I only intended to try my hand at minimalism, but I ended up falling in love with it.
[2014 Legacy] Official website for the The Academy of the Sacred Heart, an independent, private, Catholic elementary school in St. Charles, Missouri.
A comprehensive and intuitive video guide for Street Fighter 4. The series has over 150,000 views and is one of the go-to guides for the game.
Official website for the 2013 $3 million Academy of the Sacred Heart capital campaign, “A Legacy of Excellence, a Future of Distinction”.
Official website of the Shrine of Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne.
A complete guide to playing the character Oni in Street Fighter 4, this video has over 140,000 views and is the #1 Street Fighter 4 Oni Tutorial on YouTube.
This tutorial for vanilla Diablo 3 gave new players an understanding of optimal end-game play in under three minutes.
This video aimed to bridge the gap between communities and teach Street Fighter players about Smash.
A flyer for a local pub that ran weekly fighting game tournaments.
Many, many years ago, I worked for Circuit City. Good times were had and signage was made. Here are a few signs that I made and held on to because I’m nostalgic like that.
This is where I developed familiarity with PHP and wrapping mockups around a CMS — I probably wouldn’t have the experience I have with webdesign or WordPress if not for this site and its many iterations.