Custom websites, dashboards, and progressive web apps
Sparrow Studios designs, develops, hosts, and supports professional websites and web applications for labor organizations, associations, contractors, and selected businesses. The default is a ground-up build shaped around the client’s audience, content, and operations—not a marketplace theme or drag-and-drop template.
Every Sparrow Studios web product runs on our managed servers. Most are standalone and do not need a general-purpose CMS. Projects that require staff dashboards, installable PWA behavior, protected records, or interactive tools receive only those components and the security controls appropriate to the data. The Edge Dance Studio and Paul Clay Insurance Agency are the two custom WordPress builds shown here.
Right-sized architecture
The technology follows the work. Most projects begin with a clean, project-specific codebase rather than an off-the-shelf theme, drag-and-drop builder, or assumption that every website needs a CMS and conventional site database.
Every project shown below except The Edge Dance Studio and Paul Clay Insurance Agency is custom-built. Lean public sites remain focused and standalone; the two clearly identified WordPress projects use that platform intentionally.
Role-aware dashboards, installable PWAs, protected resources, records, and operational workflows are designed around the people who use them. Encryption, authentication, and scoped permissions protect sensitive functions.
Deployment includes SSL, monitoring, backups, restoration planning, updates, and defined support. Domains, credentials, source files, and ownership boundaries are documented.
Capabilities
Accessible, responsive, search-ready sites built around the organization’s audience, brand, content, and goals. The public build stays lean when a general-purpose CMS would add upkeep without adding value.
Focused administrative tools can let authorized people manage only the notices, pages, links, resources, applications, or records assigned to their role—without editing code.
Progressive web app features can make a public site or focused employee tool easy to add to supported phones, tablets, and computers while preserving a consistent branded experience.
Existing pages, documents, images, links, metadata, domains, integrations, and search equity are inventoried before obsolete or duplicate material is removed.
Encrypted intake, access controls, protected resources, local or server-side decryption, and structured retrieval can be scoped to the sensitivity of the information and the people authorized to use it.
Deployment, DNS, SSL, monitoring, backups, restoration planning, updates, accessibility review, performance work, and defined support are coordinated as one service.
Selected work
The work below ranges from focused public sites to installable PWAs, role-aware dashboards, and protected workflows. Except for the two identified WordPress projects, each product uses a custom codebase. Security and data handling are matched to the functions involved.
Shared codebase · dashboard · installable PWA
A family of custom sites built on a shared, Sparrow-maintained source foundation, with a separate branded deployment for each local. Public content, installable PWA functionality, and role-aware dashboard controls support members, officers, and staff. Encryption, authentication, and scoped permissions protect private records and resources.
The Local 66 public staging deployment is linked as a demonstration case study, not the organization’s production website. Local 602 remains shown as completed project work; its case-study link is currently unavailable.
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Custom association website
A standalone public website organizing leadership, affiliated locals, legislative and industry work, news, resources, and contact paths for electrical workers across Texas.
Custom council website
A standalone public website presenting affiliated crafts, apprenticeship and workforce information, worker advocacy, community work, news, and council contacts.
Custom website + custom Roundcube PWA
A coordinated system: a public website that presents A-1 Electric’s commercial and industrial capabilities with authority, plus a branded Roundcube progressive web app for straightforward installation on supported employee devices and direct company email login. Together, the public site raises the company’s professionalism while the focused mail experience keeps employee access simple and consistent.
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Secure web app
An applicant-tracking web app for skilled-trades employers. Encrypted browser intake, access-file authentication, local decryption, and focused staff dashboards keep sensitive hiring records under the organization’s control.
Custom WordPress website
A custom WordPress build for an Amarillo dance studio, bringing class information, pricing, schedules, instructors, galleries, live video, trial-class inquiries, and online registration into a distinctive, performance-forward experience.
Custom WordPress website
A custom WordPress build for an Amarillo insurance agency, presenting commercial, auto, and home coverage with plain-language service education, quote requests, articles, and direct contact paths.
Experimental web app
A privacy-minded parody search project born when MoJerk was entered by mistake instead of Mojeek. The result is a deliberately minimal, keyboard-friendly web app built around humor rather than tracking or profiles.
Project descriptions show the public scope only. Client credentials, private dashboards, access files, and operational data are not exposed in this portfolio.
Sparrow Studios is an independent vendor. References to IBEW locals identify organizations served and do not imply endorsement by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
Public and private scope
Services, projects, news, meetings, leadership, resources, documents, careers, forms, and contact paths are structured for the people who need them—on phones as well as desktops.
Publishing controls, protected resources, intake, search, reporting, integrations, and records are added only when the project requires them. Role-aware access keeps private functions separate from the public experience.
Process
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Sparrow Studios has built public sites and managed systems for IBEW locals, a statewide electrical-workers association, and a building-trades council, along with skilled-trades workflows. The work is scoped around the organization’s members, officers, staff, governance, content ownership, and support needs.
No. Labor organizations are a primary focus, and selected business, association, contractor, and creative projects are also considered when the scope and working relationship are a fit.
Yes. Domain ownership and DNS access are reviewed first. The client should remain the registrant and retain access to the account whenever the provider permits it.
Yes, when a dashboard is in scope. Authorized users receive role-appropriate controls for routine notices, pages, links, resources, and documents without editing code. IBEW Sites includes this focused publishing model.
Yes. Member-only or staff-only access can be evaluated based on the sensitivity of the material, identity requirements, administrative burden, and consequences of unauthorized access.
Yes. Existing URLs, copy, documents, images, metadata, inbound links, and required functions are inventoried. Necessary redirects are mapped before obsolete or duplicate material is removed.
Projects use semantic structure, keyboard-accessible controls, responsive layouts, useful alternative text, crawlable content, page-specific metadata, structured data, performance-conscious assets, and technical search fundamentals. Search ranking outcomes are not guaranteed.
Hosting is included. Deployment, SSL, monitoring, backups, restoration planning, updates, and support are defined as part of the project.
Yes. Public-site, managed-app, migration, hosting, and support projects can be performed remotely for organizations in the United States when the scope, decision process, and communication plan are a fit.
No. Sparrow Studios is an independent vendor. References to IBEW locals identify organizations served and do not imply endorsement by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
They are established after discovery. Cost and schedule depend on content readiness, audiences and administrators, migration volume, integrations, private features, review cycles, training, and ongoing support requirements.
Share the organization, audience, current site or process, content to preserve, required public or private functions, people responsible for updates, and desired timing. Discovery determines whether the right fit is a lean custom website, a dashboard-backed application, an installable PWA, or a selected WordPress build, with hosting and support defined as part of the scope.