If you spend a few minutes on the Sakya website (which I encourage you to do), you will understand what an important organization this is for the preservation of Tibetan culture. Of course, I was honored and excited to help.

Sakya Monastery’s old website was showing its age. Sakya asked for a more user-friendly and mobile-friendly website with a host of new features. It was built on Joomla, so this required migration of content into WordPress.

In addition to re-architecting the website (simplifying navigation and re-organizing pages), there was quite a lot of content re-writing, requiring a careful approach and attention to detail. Page count was reduced and dozens of new photos were added throughout the site.

Working with staff at Sakya who hand-picked photographs from Sakya’s rich history, we created a website that is both beautiful and simple. It generates just the right feeling of kindness, connection, and time-honored values and tradition.

“Thank you, Alex, for all of your hard work making a new website for us! The website looks great and I’m happy to say that it’s been running without issue […]”

John Connolly
Office Tech
Sakya Monastery

Visit Sakya.org

Launch Date: May 5, 2018

The SPEX brand is simple, clean, and full of prospect. SPEX is marketed to developers providing augmented reality solutions for the workforce.

On the SPEX website, you’ll see examples of my photography, videography, design, illustration, copy writing and an approach to marketing which is clear, concise, and honest. SPEX is still in the early stages of growth, so expect to see the look evolve as the product is introduced into the market.

When people ask me “What do you do?” the answer is “A little bit of everything.” In the case of SPEX, you see a great example of this. I even came up with the name, SPEX, which is such a perfect fit for the product, it was immediately accepted by all the stakeholders without hesitation.

Visit SPEX-AR.com

Launch Date: March 22, 2018

It’s no accident that Axi Dental lab chose Thermal Exposure for its website. After speaking with the client over the phone and meeting in person, I got a good sense for the feel they were going for and we quickly fell into agreement about the design direction and emotion we wanted to convey.

They had a logo and some postcards that they had designed, but not much else to go on. There was a shortage of imagery, but I managed to make do with the assets they were able to provide and hunt down the rest from their suppliers. I had a hand in writing parts of the copy you see on the website, too.

Visit AxiDentalLab.com

Launch Date: November 14, 2017

The Metroboard website project was one that I had picked up in the middle and carried through to completion. The original designers of the site were ambitious. The designs were stunning and bold, but the studio that produced them did not have the expertise to create a WordPress theme based on their photoshop mock-ups.

The end result was a perfect manifestation of those designs, built for both desktop and mobile screens. The metroboard website is a great example of what I can do with another designer’s vision.

Visit Metro-Board.com

Launch Date: July 17, 2017

If you’re not exactly sure what “body modification” means, it refers in this case to tattoos, piercings, tongue splits, ear pointing, scarification, sub-dermal implants, removal of body parts and more. Some of the subject matter can be fairly gruesome but it’s important to understand that everything being shown, including surgical procedures, is 100% voluntary, and entirely legal.

However, much of the subject matter related to Body Modification can violate terms of use clauses found in all popular social sharing sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. We’re talking about blood and nudity and those things are typically not allowed. Nothing about the material could be considered pornographic, but the subject matter still presented a challenge in finding the right host and releasing an app for Apple and Android that would pass their stringent policies and not get rejected.

This project required finding a host that would be okay with the content. I communicated directly with legal team at WP Engine (one of the finest web hosts in the business) to assuage their concerns that what we were doing deserved protection under the First Amendment and we would not be breaking any laws. While reluctant initially, we made a good case and were able to convince them to sign off on the project. (Kudos to WP Engine for being progressive.)

WP Engine was also great in helping to design the server backbone for this project. It took about a year to develop the complete social sharing website, which has tons of features, like instant messaging, direct messaging, photo sharing, likes, photo gallery collections, import from Facebook, forums, groups, and so much more.

It’s a paid service, and as of this writing, there are nearly two thousand active members on RustyCyb.org and I’m pleased to say that it performs quite well with very few problems reported by users.

You can find RustyCyb.org on the web or on iTunes and Google Play. Be warned however, this content is not safe for work and there may be things you wish you could unsee. It’s not for everyone.

I’m very proud of what I’ve helped build for this community. People may not understand it, but that’s kinda the whole point of a private social network that is a safe haven for people with common interests. All the feedback has been very positive and I continue to support RustyCyb.org on an ongoing basis.

Launch Date: April 19, 2017

Yoav Litvin came to me by way of recommendation. Yoav needed a simple website to showcase his photography and promote his writings. Yoav provided the color pallet and requested a clean overall design that would let his photographs take center stage.

“Alex Williams of Thermal Exposure programmed and designed my website yoavlitvin.com, which encapsulates my work as a writer and photographer. Alex was extremely professional, courteous, efficient and always available for any questions, updates or potential troubleshooting I had. My website is easy to navigate and looks fantastic. An overall excellent experience – highly recommended!”

Yoav Litvin
Scientist, Photographer, and Writer

Visit YoavLitvin.com

Launch Date: March 7, 2017

Clearsign has developed (from scratch) a revolutionary and relatively simple technology to greatly reduce criteria pollutants from industrial combustion sources. It’s hard to exaggerate how tremendously impactful and world-changing this technology really is. Clearsign has developed the key to greatly reducing harmful emissions from two-thirds of the world’s sources of global carbon emissions. A promise that has borne out in field trials and real-world applications.

I started working with Clearsign from the inception of the company. The first Clearsign website was a generation ahead of competitors. Senior management would often relay back to me the praise they received for the design of the website and marketing materials from customers.

Clearsign’s look and messaging is clean and confident to match their disruptive presence in the marketplace.

With a few exceptions, everything you see on the clearsign website has been produced by Thermal Exposure — from on-location photos and videos, to website copy and infographics.

The key to producing well-integrated messaging is a thorough understanding of the subject matter and a close working relationship with the thought-leaders inside the company. It’s been very satisfying to witness the birth, evolution, and commercial viability of this world-changing technology.

Visit ClearSign.com

Launch Date: June 10, 2016 (current version)

If you’ve ever been frustrated by rubberneckers on the highway, you might understand the use for a screen wall system that could be deployed in minutes to cover an accident or crime scene.

The inventor of JiffyWall needed everything. There was just a logo in the beginning. I refined the logo, established the brand look and feel, shot all the photography, provided illustration, shot and edited video, designed and produced the website and printed manuals.

JiffyWall is currently being utilized by police across the country.

Visit JiffyWall.com

Launch Date: May 4, 2016

Here we have a rare non-wordpress example. Cole’s website is based on Typepad, another popular blogging platform that I had never used. (I don’t find it hard to pick up new scripting languages.) In the end, Cole Smithey’s website was featured by Typepad, itself, as an example of what can be accomplished with their system.

Much of Cole’s content comes in the form of his wonderful videos. I created a custom homepage template that is entirely populated by his vimeo channels, saving Cole the labor of updating his homepage every time he had a new video to promote (which is almost daily).

He also has hundreds of articles going back many years. I hand-coded a theme that would not only respect past content formatting, but also improve upon it.

I highly recommend checking out Cole Smithey for his brilliant film reviews.

“Thermal Exposure brought my dream website to life. The proof is in the pudding. I have yet to see a corporate website that holds a candle to the finished website that Alex Williams delivered. I am forever indebted to Thermal Exposure for making my vision happen. ”

Cole Smithey 
Film Critic
Visit ColeSmithey.com

Visit colesmithey.com

Launch Date: March 10, 2015

When Ted Rall and I got introduced, his website was bursting at the seams, he was seeing far more traffic than your typical WordPress website usually sees. It took some effort but eventually we got the website stabilized and on a solid, scalable host (WP Engine).

Phase two of the project was to design a simple theme that could “re-skin” his existing content. Since it’s wordpress, it’s not that difficult to do. I created a custom skin for his existing theme (which was inexorably linked to his comic management system). So, I just re-wrote the styles and we added a bunch of new features and security upgrades while we were at it.

Ted Rall still sees a ton of traffic and it’s more now than it was then. To date, it’s still running strong and able to keep up with all the traffic and discussion on his site, which includes the occasional huge spike in response to one of his comics or editorials that go viral. Never even a hiccup.

Visit www.rall.com

Launch Date: October 15, 2013