When you work with me to build your website, I partner with local experts like visual designers from within my network, and together we collaborate on a solution that best suits your brand. My studio only takes on the kind of work I feel is better served by a small team of professionals, like us. And if you’re local, we meet you in person. No third party vendors, no offshore labor, no hours on the phone waiting for tech support. Our goal is simple: build a platform that takes care of your brand, so you can get back to building your business.
Both small- to- mid-market businesses and established brands are poised to take advantage of the low-cost customization that a platform like WordPress offers, and you don’t need a team of developers to put it together for you.
Forget about wrangling with WordPress themes that are almost what you wanted. Stop wading through a sea of wonky community plugins. Isn’t your time worth something? Why not spend it wisely?
Redesign & Rebranding
Sometimes the best solution is to start fresh. You’ve gone down one direction and your users are spent. Now it’s time to take the road less traveled by.
If you have an existing web presence that no longer meets your needs, I can help you take the next step. My process is a simple, five-step approach that carries you from Discovery to Deployment in as few as four weeks.
Web Consulting
Like any highly technical discipline, the world of web design has its chieftains as well as its charlatans. The trick is deciphering who is what. I, for one, prefer the drab but well-tested to the experimental and flashy. I like technology I can rely on. I try every day to be a foe of obsolescence.
Naturally, my desire to keep things sane makes being a web worker in the 21st century all the more difficult, because I’m up against a daily sea-change, from floods of new software updates to the detritus of new devices to a tentacled mess of new web services, the lifecycles of which change faster than I can define them. But that’s my life. It doesn’t have to be yours. Let me do the deciphering for you.
Content & UI Strategy
Full disclosure: my graduate degree is in book and magazine publishing, and I studied English literature way back in my twenties. It’s surprisingly common for experienced developers to come from non-computer-science backgrounds—in fact, my academic concentration was in formal poetry, and I happen to write science fiction in my free time.
What does this have to do with you? It means I can speak your language as well as the language of developers. Unlike many of my colleagues, I ended up here accidentally on the way to a totally different career. Content and UI strategy is all about bridging the gap between the message you want to convey and the means of conveyance. Invest in a translator who understands both.
WordPress isn’t just for blogs: banks use it too. Take Country Bank, for example: I built the front-facing home for the New England brand on the platform.
Swedenborg’s site was originally designed near the turn of the millennium, and it showed. The church hoped to attract a new, youthful following, so our redesign focused on bold, friendly color.
I can provide in-house consulting for digital agencies, from the initial pitch to prospective clients, to the planning phase that involves drafting information architecture. Bring me in early and often.
Get a Free Consultation
When it comes to specialized work, hire battle-tested experts to get the job done right. I build platforms that take care of brands, so you can go back to building yours. Don’t hesitate to get in touch. A consultation is free, and we can determine over a quick phone call if I’m a good fit for your project.
Director and Chief Curator Rachel Nelson hired me to develop the redesign for the Institute of Arts & Sciences at University of California Santa Cruz, a university art and research center that houses art exhibitions and social justice initiatives.
As a political action brochure, the microsite functioned as a hub of information about the nation’s finances, linking out to the Comeback America Initiative’s “Fiscal IQ” survey.