holas.pl ran on WordPress from 2007 to early 2026. Nineteen years. In that time WordPress grew from a straightforward blogging platform into something I barely recognize — and maintaining it had become more work than maintaining the actual content. T…
Corporate website for Alfa Consilium sp. z o.o., a licensed insurance broker and financial advisory firm operating under supervision of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF). The project covered both visual design and WordPress implementat…
After seven years on the old fixed-width design, I rebuilt holas.pl from scratch in 2015 with a fully responsive WordPress theme. An archived snapshot of this version is available on the Wayback Machine. Why a rebuild, not a patch# The old design use…
PHPers is one of the largest PHP developer communities in Poland — a network of meetups running in cities including Warsaw, Kraków, Wrocław, Poznań, and Trójmiasto. Each chapter brings together local PHP developers for talks, discussions, and network…
Bifor — full name B!FOR FOOD & DRINK & FRIENDS — was a Gdańsk venue that positioned itself as a local meeting point: food, drinks, sport, culture, live music, and events, all under one roof. The tagline on the site said it plainly: "WIES…
Corporate website for EKO TREND INWEST Sp. z o.o., a Warsaw-area construction and real estate investment company with nearly 30 years of experience in the sector. Built on QuickCMS with a custom theme. What the company does# EKO TREND INWEST builds a…
Full site for HR Management sp. z o.o. — one of the longest-running consulting firms on the Polish market, combining insurance brokerage with a directly affiliated law firm. Built on QuickCMS with a custom theme, replacing the static placeholder deli…
Website for Polufka — a bar in the student district of Gdańsk Wrzeszcz, built around three things: beer, live sports, and board games. Built on WordPress with a custom PHP theme. What the venue offers# Polufka positioned itself as the go-to spot in t…
A QuickCMS skin built for the team programming course at WMiI UMK — the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Originally a site presenting the team and their project; later adopted as the official stu…
WordPress site for Café Katarynka — a live music venue at ul. Prosta 13 in Toruń. One of my first freelance CMS projects, built in 2009. The venue# Katarynka was a café centred on live events: concerts, jam sessions, and cabaret. The site served as t…
This design ran holas.pl from 2008 to 2015 — seven years, which is a long time for a personal site to go untouched. The design# The visual direction was dark and technical: black background with a smoke/wave graphic (credited to Maja in the footer), …
Online photo gallery for the RedDragon gaming community, documenting player meetups over five years. The gallery ran at zloty.holas.pl from 2007 to 2012, accumulating over 13,000 photos across 28 albums. The community# RedDragon was a Polish gaming c…