Creative Works

The expertise and excellence of Gridline Design & Development's products, both tangible and abstract, has satisfied our clients for over two decades.

End-to-End Architecture

Some projects have gone beyond simple programming, encompassing technical and graphical design, management of DNS and server architecture, and much more.

Gridline Design & Development

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It goes without saying that everything related to this company's presence is handled directly by Gridline Design itself. We take pride in "eating our own dog food", so to speak. The skills and expertise that support our clients also maintain our own systems and architecture.

  • Logo Design
  • Graphic Design
  • Website Design
  • Content Writing
  • Web Development
  • Information Architecture
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  • Server Administration

Fly'n Gypsy Arts & Graphics

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From inception, and through multiple redesigns, Gridline Design provided expertise to Jessica Kronika with respect to her website dedicated to her artwork creations. External pressures forced the decades-long relationship to be terminated unexpectedly.

  • Graphic Design
  • Website Design
  • Content Writing
  • Web Development
  • Information Architecture
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  • Server Administration

Little Tree Daycare

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Although a relatively small project, Gridline Design was hired to produce all aspects of a site for a daycare facility in the West suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. The undertaking included logo, graphic and website design; content writing and information architecture; server administration, web development, and search engine optimization (SEO).

  • Logo Design
  • Graphic Design
  • Website Design
  • Content Writing
  • Web Development
  • Information Architecture
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  • Server Administration

Development

The majority of our undertakings relate to engineering solutions using combinations of technologies to bring a client's dreams into the real world.

Christopher Taylor Timberlake Fine Art Jewelry

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Gridline Design rebuilt the existing, static site, using the Drupal CMS to provide extensive administration features. This allowed the client to directly add and update site content, provided a contact form, and generated a number of useful reports about site content and visitors, among other things. With these capabilities, the client was able to continue effectively without changing their site significantly for 6 more years, until the early part of 2016.

I want to thank you again for the awesome work you did on my site. My daily hits are steadily climbing and I could sustain my business on the inquiries I get directly from my website alone.

Chris Timberlake
  • Drupal CMS
    • Data Migration
    • Theme Design
    • Theme Development
    • Content Upgrades
  • Website Design
  • Web Development
  • Information Architecture
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  • Server Administration

Kankakee County Health Department

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In order to make important information readily available to the population of Illinois' Kankakee County, having a web presence was critical, but it also needed to be easily updated. Through a series of revisions made by Gridline Design, not only was the system's maintainability enhanced, but simultaneously the user experience was made far richer. This version remained effective for the client for a decade, until the second half of 2019.

  • Graphic Design
  • Website Design
  • Content Writing
  • Web Development
  • Information Architecture
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

L&L Technologies

As a revamp of an existing site, Gridline Design & Development configured a shopping cart and Authorize.net payment gateway, handled various web development efforts, and supported the changes with a number of updates to the server administration.

  • Shopping Cart Configuration
  • Web Development
  • Server Administration

McElroy Associates

Joe McElroy employed Gridline Design to perform regular updates to his business website, which was running on the Joomla! content management system at the time. The updates made included posting new content, making modifications to existing design and markup elements, administration of the Joomla! configuration, and other web development tasks.

  • Joomla! CMS
  • Web Development
  • Server Administration

Imaginary Landscape, LLC

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Jake Kronika was contracted to assist in a consultative manner on a number of projects with this Web Development agency on the north side of Chicago. Many of these were a continuation of activities performed while he was employed full-time at the company. Gridline would dive in to provide support in scenarios where the Imagescape developers were unable to complete such tasks on their own.

  • Website Design
  • Web Development
  • Server Administration

Published Works

While creating software is a complex process, sometimes it is even more significant to teach others how to do so. In that vein, we have collaborated on several titles over the years.

Django 3 Web Development Cookbook, Fourth Edition

By Aidas Bendoraitis and Jake Kronika

A co-authored project between Aidas Bendoraitis and Jake Kronika, this is the fourth edition of our cookbook that contains over 100 recipes for using the Django framework for Python in order to create, enhance, and automate web projects.

Django 2 Web Development Cookbook, Third Edition

By Jake Kronika and Aidas Bendoraitis

This was the third edition of a book written in cookbook style as a collaboration between Jake Kronika and Aidas Bendoraitis. It provides readers, interested in using the Django framework on Python, with 100+ detailed recipes, each offering insights into how a website could be built and improved, and its maintenance streamlined.

IP Traceback: Determining Network Attack Sources

By Dr. Jinqiao Yu and Jake Kronika

A research paper entered into the 3rd NATO Scientific Conference, Security and Protection of Information (SPI), 2005, this was a joint project submitted by Jake Kronika and Dr. Jinqiao Yu, then a professor of Computer Science at Illinois Wesleyan University. The paper identifies the issue of, analyzes contributing factors to, and summarizes effective techniques for traceback of internet addresses – critical for locating network attack sources.