Kirubel Girma

Problem: Small local service businesses need credible web presence fast, but generic templates feel cold and don’t meet service-area detail.

Solution: Designed the site with Next.js and Tailwind, wrote neighborhood-focused copy for Chicago ZIP 60619 so the business feels local and trustworthy, and structured content so updates happen in one place without rebuilding the whole site.

Impact: Delivers a local, trustworthy feel for nearby homeowners plus clear CTAs, testimonials, and a contact flow that opens a prefilled email draft.

Problem: Users can see trend data with Google Trends, but not the tone of recent headlines tied to a specific company.

Solution: Built a web app that fetches live headlines, filters relevance, and scores tone with short explanations plus charts to spot patterns over time.

Impact: Clear scores and explanations per headline, charts for trends over time, and export options so results are easy to save or print.

Problem: Markup issues like missing alt text, weak link labels, and heading skips are easy to ship; dense WCAG docs don’t help people iterate quickly on a fragment or page.

Solution: Built a Next.js app that fetches website data and also accepts URLs to display accessibility issues along with potential suggestions for fixes.

Impact: Turns accessibility into an inspectable, explainable loop: see the issue, read why it matters, and get a concrete fix hint in one place.