Alexa Melvin

~ The Web-Dev Witch 🧙‍♀️ ~

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Is your website acting haunted? Broken buttons, weird layouts, mysterious errors?
I untangle messy web problems — fixing and redesigning sites with clear code, clean layouts, and a creative touch. Whether you need a website facelift or a modern front-end app, I bring practical, creative solutions.

What I Do

WordPress maintenance, theme & plugin customization
Custom full-stack development, experienced with React, Laravel, PHP, MySQL, and much more.
Responsive design & mobile optimization
Accessibility & performance improvements
Shopify development with custom integrations (e.g., Substack)
Front-end web apps with React & TypeScript
CMS setup & content workflows (WordPress, NetlifyCMS)

Featured Freelance Projects

The Nordic Restaurant

Ongoing maintenance of a custom PHP and WordPress site, including mobile improvements, uptime fixes, and AWS hosting tweaks.

The POD Access

Created a WordPress-based system that auto-generates episode templates for a podcast archive.

Sapphic LA

Launched a Shopify storefront with Substack integration, tailored for a queer sapphic audience.

Queer StoRIes Project

Built a static HTML/CSS site to showcase local queer community storytelling and oral histories in Rhode Island.

Technical Projects

Spotify Sync (React App)

A music library sync tool built with Next.JS/React, TypeScript, Zustand, and Spotify’s REST API. Designed to solve Spotify’s separation of albums and songs, this tool merges saved albums with liked tracks.

Amica Insurance Document Uploader

Redesigned and rebuilt a core piece of the Amica customer portal: the document uploader used during high-stress moments like insurance claims.

Contact

Github

Upwork

LGBTQ-owned freelance web development