McDonald Web Works

01/30/2026

14 years of business licenses. Where does the time go! Thank you to all those who’ve trusted me to make the web work for you.

01/18/2026

It’s a new year and we have a new governor in Virginia!

This seems like a good time to reintroduce myself. My name is Joel McDonald, and I’m the Chief Everything Officer here at McDonald Web Works. Yesterday, I had the privilege of witnessing history being made as Abigail Spanberger was sworn in as Virginia’s 75th governor and the first woman to serve as governor in our 250 year history.

It takes thousands of incredible people, including great candidates running from every corner of the state to successfully make monumental positive change. With McDonald Web Works, I want to be a resource to aid in that success by supporting candidates, campaigns, and political organizations by making the web work for them, and often their limited resources, through web design, development, hosting, maintenance, integration, and yes, even AI where applicable and responsible.

In a way, this refocus is returning to my roots. Much of my early experience providing technology and communications support was with political campaigns and organizations. Making the web work for mission-driven organizations has been so rewarding.

If you’re a candidate, campaign, or political organization, please reach out. I’d love to talk about what your goals are and how I can help you achieve them. My number is 757-453-4974 and my email is [email protected].

01/15/2025

Need to update form data or provide feedback to users based on their interaction with your form before the form is submitted? Here's a tutorial using Gravity Forms + Custom JavaScript!

Need to update form data or provide feedback to users based on their interaction with your form before the form is submitted? Adding custom JavaScript might just be the solution to your problem! In this tutorial, I'll show you how to add custom JavaScript to your Gravity Forms forms in WordPress usi...

01/14/2025

Yesterday, I saw a question on Facebook in the Web Creator Community (by Kadence WP) group asking how to filter posts returned by the Kadence advanced query loop block based on Advanced Custom fields relationship fields. To help out, I created a brief tutorial on how to use the advanced query loop block with ACF relationship fields. - Joel

Yesterday, I saw a question on Facebook in the Web Creator Community (by Kadence WP) group asking how to filter posts returned by the Kadence advanced query loop block based on Advanced Custom fields relationship fields. To help out, I created a brief tutorial on how to use the advanced query loop b...

01/13/2025

The Internet is a better place when we share knowledge. Here I'll show you how to use Kadence Advance Query Loops with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) relationship fields.

11/27/2023

When a website makes it easy to accomplish a task, there’s someone behind the scenes who has done the hard work of planning, testing, debugging, and implementing that solution. Solving problems for clients to make the web work for them… that’s what McDonald Web Works does.

11/22/2023

Thank you to those who attended this evening's HRBOR + Elizabeth River Trail Foundation presentation, and huge thanks to Kindra Green from the Elizabeth River Trail for sharing the trail's history, plans for the future, and ways we can help and to Hampton Roads Business OutReach (HRBOR) for partnering with us to promote. Here's the recording from the meeting. Interested in becoming a corporate sponsor? Let us know at https://forms.gle/t7CMr7TG2WH9zqm28

05/02/2023

If this isn’t the vibe right now…

Move over "The Last of Us" – it's time for a new post-apocalyptic series. We'd like to offer "Sunset" for your consideration. It's about a family migrating t...

08/21/2022

Enjoy good food, good drinks, and people doing good in the community? Get yours tickets for the Cape Henry Rotary Oyster Crush!

SILVER SPONSOR — Thanks you, Joel McDonald & McDonald Web Works! ⁠