Wah Lum Kung Fu, on Edinboro Street in Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood, has been training martial artists in the Tam Tui Northern Praying Mantis style since 1969. I had been a student since I was working in an architectural firm across the street and stopped in on a whim one day during my lunch break. After moving out of Boston and having our daughter, I was no longer able to go to class on a regular basis, so I was thrilled when one of my old instructors messaged me and said they were looking to re-do their badly out-of-date website.

The original site renovation was done using Sayontan Sinha’s Suffusion theme but after a few years, my friend contacted me again and asked if I could re-visit the project and make it more mobile responsive.

These lion-dancer head social media icons were part of the original Suffusion design and I couldn’t bear to leave them out of the new Divi incarnation of Wahlumpai.com!

The home page features a video background header with footage of a lion dance being performed by Wah Lum’s demo team. As I was working on the re-design, the school competed in the annual Kuoshu martial arts tournament in Maryland so I was lucky enough to have lots of new photos and videos to work with and updated the original site galleries with new images and added a video gallery as well. Since so many students and teachers over the years had posted videos on their own accounts, we decided to create a Youtube channel for the school and used it as the source for all the new videos on the website.