Hello, I'm

Kévin LAURENSON

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Explorer

I love building anything!

For more than ten years, I’ve been building WordPress and PrestaShop websites or online shops, working closely with designers and project manager to turn ideas into fast, responsive, and reliable results. Over the years, I created and improved for each CMS a starter theme framework — kind of workshop with custom tools — refined through many projects to speed up development and keep quality and consistency high.

CSS Framework

The agencies & designers I’ve worked for used the Bootstrap standard framework for years, with its 12 columns style grid and other functionalities.In 2022, after many projects and noticing a pattern custom tools used over the years,that led me to build a Half Bootstrap x Custom framework, keeping strong tools from Bootstrap to make it familiar and mixed it with new responsive tools and agency specific common styles.

Consistency accross CMS

To save time and keep consistency accross plateforms, I made so that our WordPress and PrestaShop setups share the same CSS/JS workflow DNA, making the switch between platforms smoother and improve consistency accross projects. We use a common Webpack x NPM base for the main development and our custom Framework alongside CMS specific libraries.

E-commerce ready

When a project calls for WordPress with WooCommerce instead of PrestaShop, I have made a plug-and-play WC Folder-ready to add to the starter theme. It contains a few files to activate Woocommerce but also integrate a custom Woocommerce structure with improve AJAX handling, a custom variations option to help reduce database weight, and other extra functions (simplified cart & checkout, holding a cart for a later, minicart, etc).

Updatability

In each starter theme I made, specific PHP or CSS/JS folders are built to be replaceable by newer versions without breaking anything. This allow to improve furthermore our start themes, keeping the code private to our agency workflow and being easily updateable over the years when needed.

Plugins & Modules

Some functionnalities are made either as core functions in the starter theme or plugins/modules to add on occasions. Ajax loadmore and filtering, Immo plugin, Product showcase for Prestashop, Showroom, 3D configurator, Simulations (solar panel, mortgage simulation , etc.

Quality & Improving

Before going live, every website is checked on proper mobile phones and tablets and the main web browsers (Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox). Every few month I take a look at Google Analytics statistics accross different kind of website we made to list the new screen sizes. I also check websites like @codrops, @awwwards, to discover what's is new, animations and ideas to try out.

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Technologies

The skills bars below give you a good idea of the technologies I use on a daily basis
However, I would never pretend to know a skill at 100% because there is always something to discover.

Wordpress

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Prestashop

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React

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Html 5 ~ CSS 3

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javascript ~ jQuery

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Gsap ~ ThreeJS

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Photoshop ~ Illustrator

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Adobe XD

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Figma

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DaVinci ~ Premiere

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Blender

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Over the years

Company
Function
Period

Agence Lucyan

67 Bas-Rhin, France
Fullstack Developer
7 ans 2018 to present

Ovny / Les orpailleurs

85 Vendée, France
Fullstack Developer
3 years 2015 - 2018

Pixel Plurimédia

68 Haut-Rhin, France
Apprentice developer in final year of Masters
(University of Strasbourg - CAWEB)
1 year 2012 - 2013