[
[ Toggle on/off: ]
]
dana teagle dot com
[
[ Toggle on/off: ]
]
[ Name ] Dana Rosamund Teagle
[ Pronouns ] she/her
[ Occupation ] Designer & web/software developer
[ Location ] Tkaronto, Ontario
[ Astrological signs ] Libra sun/Leo moon/Scorpio rising
[ Pets ] Two cats (Snufkin and Winnipeg)
I've spent most of my life making neat things on the internet, between developing websites and software, designing graphics and posters, managing social media, and editing video content. These days, I primarily work as an independent contractor for businesses, freelance professionals, artists, and non-profit organizations.
I'm especially passionate about hand-coded websites, accessible equity-centered design, user-friendly interfaces, and open-source software, as well as projects that intersect with advocacy (particularly for queer and trans communities).
Outside of my work in technology and design, I've also worked in vegetarian restaurant and café management, directing and editing for film and television, consulting on technical solutions for small businesses, and leading workshops for 2SLGBTQ+ folks.
I'm a lifelong science-fiction nerd, former comic book collector, and current cassette tape collector. When I'm away from my keyboard, chances are I'm making playlists, reading library books, watching movies, or walking around the city taking photos of pigeons.
You can find some examples of websites, applications, and designs I've worked on in the sections below, or on my Instagram page, and you can learn about the freelance services I offer a bit further down this page. Also feel free to check out my most recent resume or read testimonials from my past clients.
Kitschin Sink (2021)
Logo design
Your Real Life Insurance (2020-2021)
Graphic design & social media marketing
[ ]
[ ]
[ Select tag to filter 
]
The TG I.D. project will be an online hub providing resources, documents, and moderated information about how to change one's legal name and gender marker with the federal and provincial governments as a transgender, non-binary, Two-Spirit, or otherwise gender non-conforming individual living in Ontario.
Since 2021, I have led workshops on how to change names and gender markers for both federal and Ontario identification documents. The TG I.D. website is aiming to launch in late 2025 or 2026.
You can find documents, resources, and presentation materials I've previously collected for Ontario Trans I.D. at this link.
This is a website for social historian Chris Aino Pihlak, built with HTML and SCSS. I designed and developed the site in November and December 2024.
This is a website for Michael Cloud Duguay — a composer, producer, improviser, and accordionist from Peterborough, Ontario — that I designed and built in 2024, using Webflow and Figma.
West83 is an organizational development practice led by Dr. Jessica Sartori, an experienced leader in Ontario's public sector.
In summer 2024, I worked with Jessica to design West83's branding and set up a basic Google Sites webpage for them.
Connect Fund is a not-for-profit organization aiming to provide comprehensive and widespread funding to 2SLGBTQ+ communities in Ontario to access the healthcare they need, led by Dr. Kate Greenaway, and based in Toronto, Ontario.
In summer 2024, I worked with the Connect Fund team to launch a web platform for receiving charitable donations and supporting clients, built in Webflow using designs wireframed in Figma.
This is a website and online shop for True History Brewing, a brewery and taproom in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The site was initially launched in March 2024, and will be updated in the future with full storefront functionality.
The project is built with React Remix, and uses Hydrogen as a headless Shopify storefront for online orders, and Strapi as a headless CMS for non-storefront related variable data (hours, events, menus, etc.). The site's custom design was wireframed using Figma, and styled with SCSS.
This is a portfolio website for Nina Milanovski, dance artist and producer, built with jQuery, HTML, and SCSS. I designed and developed the site in February and March 2024.
Code
This is a guided walking tour app for the 2SLGBTQAI+ community in Windsor-Essex, Ontario, built with React and using the open-source Pytheas framework. The application guides users through a selected tour length, and displays text and photos for each historic location.
I was the lead developer on the application in summer 2023, working alongside Haley Tibbitts and our project manager Zhenia Tomé, with funding and support from Parallel 42 Systems and Windsor Hackforge. The research and organizing for the tour was provided by Walter Cassidy of the Windsor-Essex Rainbow Alliance.
CodeThis is a notes app built with Angular, Typescript, and SCSS, that stores all inputted data locally without sending anything to a database. Unless deleted, your notes remain secure in the browser on your device until you clear the cache. You can save up to 50 text notes of 140 characters each in various colours. They can be sorted, filtered, searched, edited, and deleted, as well as exported to a .txt file. I originally developed the site in Feb 2023 as Pigeon Pad, and then relaunched it as Note Taken in Sept 2023 with improved functionality and an updated design.
This is a website for Sydney Gautreau's editing & writing coaching business, built with jQuery, HTML, and SCSS. It was originally designed and developed in 2022, and received style and functionality upgrades in 2023 and 2024.
Code
This is an application for viewing images of pigeons in different cities around the world, written in HTML, jQuery, and SCSS, and using the Flickr API. The site retrieves JSON data representing photos of pigeons, either in the user's selected city or in a random city, it shuffles through those image objects, and then it displays one of the photos on the page.
I originally built the Pigeon Hole in July 2022, relaunched it with improved scripts and updated styles in Sept 2023, and I continue to update and improve it periodically.
I'm currently taking on freelance projects for web and software development, graphic design, digital content strategy, and website auditing. Please feel free to reach out and we can discuss your goals, deadline, and budget in more detail. I'd love to help make your dream project a reality!
Web/software development projects will often involve an initial discovery process to establish your specific needs, after which I develop a unique road map for the project, and together we find a quote that compensates my estimated labour while meeting your budget.
For smaller-scale projects, ongoing maintenance work, graphic design, and consulting, I work on an hourly rate.
I develop all of my web projects with consideration for responsiveness (functioning seamlessly across devices), search engine optimization, and web accessibility, and rigorously test for usability and performance before launch to ensure every potential user gets the ideal browsing experience.
“I consider myself a pretty articulate person but when it comes to communicating our vision for TrueHistoryBeer.com, we spent years lost in the wilderness. Like many other business owners I'm not very literate about the language of websites and how I want something to look and feel. Dana's superpower is her ability to translate ideas; to hear what I'm saying and tell me what I mean. That seems simple but it unlocked all of our potential and a process that used to give me anxiety suddenly became fun. I've worked with many people and few have made me feel as at ease and confident as Dana.”
— Matthew Tompkins | Owner & Founder, True History Brewing
I can be reached by email at contact [at] danateagle.com. If you want to send me encrypted messages, here's my PGP key. Please feel free to get in touch if you have a question about any of my apps or websites, or if there's a project or opportunity you think I'd be a particularly good fit for. You can also find me on Instagram, Github, LinkedIn, and various other places online.
