Why do you need a custom website? The reason we always start by getting potential clients on a call is because you may not need a custom website. Yes, I just said that. Let me explain: We’ve told that to many of our clients in the past. It’s not that we don’t believe in custom…
You don’t need a website. Yeah, you heard me, you aspiring small-business-owner. You maker, creator. You entrepreneur. I know you think you do – probably because some other website told you so. Maybe you’re a business-savvy bartender hoping to become the next Marie Forleo. Maybe you’ve been doing your thing out there in the real…
On the morning of a big launch, a client contacted me with bad news: her site had been hacked. Her site is on one of the best hosts out there, that runs regular security checks, but when she had transferred her site from her old host to the new one, so also brought over some…
The average internet user has about as much patience and attention span as my three year old. If your web pages take too long to load it’s likely that a visitor will move on, no matter how interesting your content is. This leaves the door wide open for a competitor’s sight to potentially get more…
I know the old adage says “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”, but let’s face it: when you pour your heart and soul into your website, discovering that your design or content has been hijacked by someone else just sucks. A few weeks ago, I received an email from a past client who was…
We’ve been working on our new site for a little over three months now — drafting how it would be organized, working on the design, writing content, pulling together images for our portfolio, reviewing user experience, coding the design into a working WordPress theme. In short, an involved and, at times, emotional task. I see…
To say the 2015 was one hell of a year would be an understatement. Personally and professionally, it was a time of great changes, some bittersweet, others uncomfortable, others exciting in ways I had never expected. Here are the highlights: I grew my company from a solopreneurship to an actual business with a team of…
Like nearly everyone else on the interwebs, I recently lost myself in Liz Gilbert’s latest book, Big Magic. In it, Liz does a beautiful job of arguing for creating for the sake of creation, without worry or expectation what the world will thing. The creative life isn’t about creating art, it’s about living in a…
(website design) is a graphic designer and brand consultant who specializes in creating and developing brands. Her core focuses are logo development, website design and brand direction.
(logo and original branding) is a graphic design and art director who works with with small businesses and creative entrepreneurs, creating cohesive and interesting brands and websites.
(photography) is a wedding photographer, whose goal is to capture the visual expression of a couple's love through timeless, organic images. She is based in Charlottesville, Virginia.
