Web Design & Marketing
We have created a variety of high quality branded web sites that have launched small businesses, entrepreneurs and non-profits. For us, web design and development is a holistic process. Our websites not only look great, they also perform. From the beginning, we consider your objectives, customers’ problems and solutions, your brand story, and high-level messaging in our approach to design.
We’re mindful of the fact that a website is an online advertisement. When users visit your website for the first time, they may not be ready to purchase your products, donate to your cause or engage with your organization. So, we build features that help you connect with your visitors by inviting them to your email list, to connect with your social media, or to join with your events.
We strive to avoid gimmicky design that looks trendy and outdated in a years time, and prefer to create a more timeless design. As part of our design process we create a full visual mock up for our clients so that they can see how their home page will look live. We recommend web site redesigns every few years to optimize for mobile or whichever platform is preferred by your prospective visitors.
We currently create most of our websites using WordPress CMS so that if you wish, you can update your own content whenever you’d like. We also update and maintain all of our websites for optimal performance, security and backups. As always your content and domain remain yours forever. We highly recommend Siteground web hosting for speed, security and expert 24/7 technical support.
If you’re interested in an exciting new website, contact us for a consultation. We will prepare a complementary proposal for you and a quick mock up so that you can visualize your new home page. Upon acceptance, we begin work upon a 50% deposit.
Oxnard College Foundation
The Oxnard College Foundation has been active for decades raising money for scholarships to support college students in need yet has had very little presence on the web until now. Thanks to new executive director Pete Parker this is changing.
The Foundation wanted a vibrant new website that will assist them with fundraising as well as helping students connect with scholarship opportunities and Oxnard College Alumni to connect and to get involved and to contribute.
Newly launched fall of 2022, the site will continue to grow and evolve with the organization which seeks to connect with the community in new ways.
The Glitterbarn Maker Studio
The Glitter Barn art studio and makerspace in Ventura is joyful, personal and, most of all, fun space for children and adults! Opened fall 2023, Glitter Barn was the dream of a two teachers who saw the need for an inclusive makerspace that caters to artists of all levels. The fun project included logo design and branding along with a website that offers e-commerce options for classes. The site incoprated fun colors, brush strokes and coloful photography as well as integrating with a newsletter. Classes include guided instruction to process art where the focus is on the experience rather than the outcome, Glitter Barn invites you to find and follow your creative path and make some friends along the way!.
Jeffrey Sipress Photography
Jeffrey Sipress creates passionate images of landscapes, nature, wildlife, industry and colorful scenes of life. Destinations range from Bodie to Death Valley, Utah and Arizona to Africa and Canada. Mountains, deserts, ghost towns and wild places are his passion. A professional for over 40 years, this website presents his portfolio of stunning images with a minimalist approach, showcasing the photography over the web design, which takes a back seat. The site integrates image gallery software, and that’s about it!
Infinity Threads Leggings
When I was learning about the main meridians of the body to learn resistance flexibility strength training, I thought about creating leggings that show the meridians for the legs so I could learn them. I sought out a leggings manufacturer and found an amazing print on demand company that would allow me not only to create meridian leggings, but to express my creative ideas.
I created an e-commerce store using Woo Commerce featuring popular graphic design themes, all kinds of cool maps, narwhals (of course), math, science, sacred geometry, music, and of course, space cats. I do have several dozen designs available, and many remain in my brain waiting to be worn!
I have had the pleasure of fun photo shoots with friends, learning about social media ads and video, and creating team leggings.
LA Throwback Beach Ultimate Fest
LA Throwback 2019 Beach Ultimate Fest website redesign, social media campaigns, apparel design & swag design
LA Throwback Beach Ultimate Fest was created in 2018 as a protest and positive response to years of grumbling in the Southern California beach ultimate community. In 2000, Canada Gordon created a small beach ultimate tournament in Santa Monica named LEIOUT, which took off in popularity and grew by leaps and bounds over time. She handed the leadership over to another group that continually raised fees unreasonably, provided no amenities to the players other than the fields, which were almost free, and pocketed six figure profits without giving back to the community. In response, Dave Adelson created a non profit that put on the most excellent beach tournament they could in Santa Monica, creating the best experience for players, and giving back to growing the sport in the LA area. In its second year and growing, the original website needed a redesign, fresh images and layout, organization and clarity.
The event also needed apparel, discs, swag, a registration system with maps and graphics and an E-commerce store as well as a three month socail media and email campaign leading up to it to encourage sign ups, engagement and to attract sponsorships.
After lots of hard work, the tournament and party were declared a big success by the players and will likely continue to grow.
Tiny Art2Share
Tiny Art2Share is the brainchild of artist Amy Wise who created pairs of tiny art as a way to send a moment of joy to someone and share it.
Art can bring a moment of joy to anyone, and Tiny Art 2 Share is a tool that will helps spread that happy feeling. Each TA2S box contains two miniature pieces of art: one to keep, and one to share. When you look at your “half” of the pair you can think of the person with the other half.
Who do you know that could use a kind gesture? Maybe the art’s theme reminds you of someone? Does a friend need a surprise?
Here is a great way to show thoughtfulness. You can follow TA2S @tinyart2share on Instagram to see Amy’s newest creations. Go ahead and send a tiny bit of cheer because a little [Tiny] bit of Art can literally go a long way.
After a fun photo shoot and taking some videos and time-lapses, we set up an E-commerce store for Tiny Art2Share. We also created a simple and fun explainer video showing the art making process and the fun of giving it away. There are also versions of the video that are used for social media sharing/ads. We also embedded the Instagram feed.
The Meridian Alignment Protocol
Ben John Maruquin is an advanced bodyworker and healer who uses Traditional Chinese Medicine in a framework of Active Strength and Stretch Modalities. Ben also employs Shiatsu, Myofascial release, Craniosacral, Pranayama, and Energy Work. This combination balances intellectual, emotional, spiritual and physical health. Focused breathing (Pranayama) while doing MAP relaxes the nervous system creating physical upgrades. Ben’s sessions require both active participation and relaxation to get you back into your body. Ben specializes in working with Health Care Providers and Healing Arts Practitioners with Energetic Fatigue.
MAP is the Bodywork for Bodyworkers.
Santa Barbara Blues Society
The Santa Barbara Blues Society is the oldest blues society in the nation, putting on high quality concerts every other month keeping the Blues alive and growing.
They needed an exciting new website that reflected the quality of the performers, that sold tickets online, was responsive, shared media, went with their social media, invited newsletter sign ups, featured an event calendar, sold memberships, and assisted them with the Blues for Youth Program securing grants.
It was a pleasure creating the redesign for SBBS using their logo and complementary colors. It makes it easy for them to sell out VIP tickets before shows. We added a print-on-demand e-commerce store to their website featuring their branded apparel that supports and promotes this amazing non-profit.
San Luis Obispo Blues Society
The San Luis Obispo Blues Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to perpetuating and preserving Americas unique musical contribution to the world – the Blues in the Central Coast. We are dedicated to providing the Central Coast with high quality live Blues music performances at reasonable prices. Our all-volunteer organization was founded in 1980 and is the third oldest Blues Society in the United States..
Santa Barbara Street Medicine/Doctors Without Walls
SBDWW brings medicine to the homeless population in Santa Barbara and individuals who in no way could enter the traditional health care system or manage health insurance let alone stable housing. Medical interns bring the medicine and care to them and serve Santa Barbara and Goleta weekly
Santa Barbara Street Medicine/Doctors Without Walls had an “old” WordPress site that did not do justice to their important work and was not responsive.
The site redesign was directed by 4HourWorld Productions, and is the site content manged by their non-profit. We created a blog slider that keeps the site fresh for supporters.
Due to large amount of content and media of the old website we enlisted the great technical assistance of SiteGround moving the site to a fast and secure hosting environment.
Atlas Crop Imaging
Atlas Crop Imaging specializes in providing high-resolution field mapping services using state of the art drone cameras & sensors that can quickly determine crop health using NDVI technology (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) for the farming industry. Custom aerial maps shot from drones help farmers pin point stressed areas within their fields caused by pests, disease, water & weather-related stress and to take proactive measures saving tens of thousands of dollars worth of crops.
Pacific Crop Consulting
Pacific Crop Consultants, sister company to Atlas Crop Imaging, specializes in providing third party witness documentation reports when agricultural crops become damaged or unmarketable from external factors. They use advanced drone imaging technology to document herbicide burn, drought damage, insect damage, disease damage, weather damage, chemical application negligence, seed disputes, nursery disputes, and harvest loss disputes.
When a crop becomes economically damaged it’s important to document damage and gather the facts as quickly as possible for potential settlements.
Santa Barbara Jazz Society
The Santa Barbara Jazz Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to perpetuating and preserving America’s unique musical contribution to the world-jazz. We present monthly concerts that feature all types of jazz musicians giving them a venue to utilize their talent. The Jazz Society also gives yearly scholarships to students in the Santa Barbara area so they can pursue their education in this important style of music.
The Jazz Society website was in html when we took it over. The current president loved the musician graphics created for the jazz society in the 1990s, but integrating those into a modern responsive website was the challenge. The custom design features a unique color palette for each page. We also created matching branded Mailchimp newsletters that go out several times per month announcing monthly concerts and events, and Facebook banners.
San Luis Obispo Jazz Federation
The SLO Jazz Federation is a small but committed non-profit whose mission is to keep jazz alive in San Luis Obispo and bring great jazz talent to the central cost on a monthly basis.
We redesigned their responsive website with an exciting evening jazzy kind of feel. The site often features artist videos, ticket purchasing, a matching newsletter, and sign up. We also create matching social media headers to announce their concerts every month to their followers.
Showers of Blessing
Showers of Blessing freely and unconditionally provides hot showers and love to people experiencing homelessness. They bring their shower trailer to seven established sites in the greater Santa Barbara area every week. With each shower they offer a freshly laundered towels and washcloth, a pair of new cotton socks, a pair of new underwear, hygiene items and limited emergency clothing. At each site they also provide companionship and conversation with those whom they serve.
We were privileged to redesign their website with a fresh open and clean color palette, create a logo, provide a way to accept donations, newsletter sign ups, a customized designed Mailchimp newsletter that matches their web site and interactive Google map. We are fortunate that this organization is run by a group of dedicated volunteers. Having their website in WordPress empowers them to edit content; and having the newsletter template empowers them to keep their supporters updated.
Shower the People SLO
Inspired by the good work or Showers of Blessing in Santa Barbara, Showers the People of San Luis Obispo also freely and unconditionally provides hot showers and love to people experiencing homelessness. They currently provide their services in Grover Beach, CA every week. They also provide hot meals and backyard fruit to those whom they serve.
The challenge with creating this venture from scratch was that during the fundraising process, we did not have any photos or media to share to help potential donors visualize the good work that this non-profit intended to do. Fortunately we had help from other organizations until we could get STPSLO off the ground. Showers the People acquired enough funds to start providing showers to the homeless population in October of 2018.
On the new website we created a donation meter that we updated as they raised the funds. We created a logo, which was used to create a vehicle wrap that went around their shower trailer. We designed their website with a fresh open and clean color palette with a joyful splash of orange, provided a way to accept donations, newsletter sign ups, a customized designed Mailchimp newsletter that matches their web site and interactive OS map. We are fortunate that this organization is expanding operations in Grover Beach.
Santa Barbara Cryotherapy
Santa Barbara Cryotherapy is a startup owned by Rebecca Rogers and Alicia Poulis-Carlson inspired by having cryotherapy themselves and having great pain relief. Experiencing brief intense cold for up to 3 minutes has many wellness benefits.
We were involved from the beginning helping them to create their branding, logo, and even a fun T-shirt design. After about 300 iterations, they chose the current logo, colors and fonts, and since then we have created many ads and brochures.
Clients can book appointments, sign up for discounts and learn about the many benefits of cryotherapy.
Baddour Commercial Real Estate
LA Throwback 2019 Beach Ultimate Fest website redesign, social media campaigns, apparel design & swag design
LA Throwback Beach Ultimate Fest was created in 2018 as a protest and positive response to years of grumbling in the Southern California beach ultimate community. In 2000, Canada Gordon created a small beach ultimate tournament in Santa Monica named LEIOUT, which took off in popularity and grew by leaps and bounds over time. She handed the leadership over to another group that continually raised fees unreasonably, provided no amenities to the players other than the fields which were almost free, and pocketed a six figure profits without giving back anything to the community. So Dave Adelson created a non profit that put on the most excellent beach tournament in Santa Monica as a response. In its second year ans growing, the original website needed a redesign, fresh images and layout, organization and clarity.
Quinn Fiduciary Services
Quinn Fiduciary Services is the entrepreneurial venture of experienced master fiduciary Jackie Quinn. Jackie has worked in the estate planning and administration fields for over 30 years. Fiduciaries prudently manage the money and assets for others, providing critical services to vulnerable seniors, developmentally disabled persons and children. They also serve by agreement as trustees, executors, representative payees and as agents under powers of attorney.
We started simply with her web site and have expanded it as her successful business continues to grow. We designed her oak leaf logo and color palette, focusing on imagery from Santa Barbara, conveying her firms trustworthiness and wisdom.
Gina Cole MFT
Gina Cole MFT is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Ventura, CA offering individual therapy. She enjoys working with clients of all stages in their lives to develop healthier connections within themselves, with friends and family members and with the society in which they live. She is experienced in guiding individuals through relationship challenges, grieving and loss difficulties, life transitions and issues related to trauma and other life stressors. She is also a Clinical Supervisor at Pure Sports Recovery, and an experienced EMDR practitioner.
Gina wanted a new website that is friendly, colorful, and features a unique color palette on each page. Initially we had experimented with putting her intake forms online to make her office more paperless. Due to legal constraints we chose to discontinue but have still manged to eliminate some paperwork.
Dianne Nicholas MFT
Dianne Nicholas MFT is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Ventura, CA offering individual therapy for children, adults, families and those with trauma. She Senior Trainer for Theraplay based in Chicago and trains clinical professionals nationally and internationally. She is an Adjunct Professor at UC San Diego Extension Play Therapy Department, and an experienced EMDR practitioner.
Dianne wanted a new website that honored her upbringing in Kenya, so we took a playful approach to presenting her services likening it to a safari.
National Home Care Academy
National Home Care Academy is the entrepreneurial consulting firm of Marisa Pasquini, a bestselling author, speaker and caregiving expert who trains professional and family caregivers. She teaches tried and true communication techniques that address anxiety and frustration and create peace for people with dementia, resulting in confident caregivers with an elevated sense of purpose and joy.
Growing up in Southern California with a brother with special needs, Marisa experienced firsthand living with someone whose perspective was different. Her early experiences led her to working closely with the special needs community, developing tools to connect with them and see the world through their unique lens. When her mother suffered a debilitating stroke, Marisa came to grips with the change that can happen to a loved one in an instant.
The segue to working with people with dementia and Alzheimer’s was natural. By working closely with families, Marisa saw the struggles they face in caring for their loved ones, and with finding acceptable, let alone exceptional, help for them. Marisa’s natural affinity for people who are different as well as in her experiences in the (often messy) trenches working with them led to the development of a system to encourage and empower caregivers.
Her web site will evolve as she adds seminars and courses.
Simply Remembered Cremation Care
Simply Remembered Cremation Care is a small, family-owned California licensed funeral home offering cremation services, Home Funerals, and Green Burials. They provide simple, inexpensive cremations and burials. Simply Remembered provides the support and guidance at this most difficult time.
Simply Remembered required an emergency total website rebuild in a day. Their marketing agency suddenly shut down without notice or contact along with their website and domain. We helped Simply Remembered quickly acquire a domain and be up and running within a day. We enlisted SEO services and took photos, and created a simple and elegant logo. Having a live website is critical because cremation care is a 24/7 business. Since that build we have refined it and we have chosen to design with a one page website model so that customers can quickly obtain information.
TJ Hiker
TJ is an experienced hiking guide, specializing in gently guiding inexperienced hikers through great bucket list adventures with great care, compassion and humor. She takes groups of hikers to Maccu Piccu, Patagonia, to Utah and places with gorgeous and challenging hiking trails.
When TJ launched her business we created a website that allowed people to check out her trips and to register and pay securely with a credt card. We also have a newsletter sign up that lets adventurers know about her upcoming trips. We integrated her Instagram feed to keep things fresh.
SoCal Shuffle blog
SoCal Shuffle is the blog of writer Kateri Wozny. She started her blog from scratch in 2016 and has since gathered thousands of followers through social media who read her great articles and reviews. All we had to do was set her up and she took her blog and ran with it.
She had us do some css customization and commissioned us to create a very unique logo in the style of a vintage postcard which highlights great things about Southern California living.
Kappa Delta Psi
Kappa Delta Psi fraternity enhances the Michigan Technological University experience by creating lifelong bonds of brotherhood, developing future leaders, promoting academic excellence and giving back to the community through philanthropic activities.
We professionally redesigned the original Kappa Delta Psi website using their color palette and to make it modern and responsive and to educate parents and the community about the positive aspects of the academically oriented brotherhood. We tested out message boards and various methods for collecting dues.
52 Peaks
52 Peaks chronicled the adventure of two women hiking fifty-two mountains in fifty-two weeks around the globe to inspire others to prioritize health and wellness, step out of their comfort zone, and to find their best and most authentic self. We created a custom website to spec that featured responsive tables, frequent blogs, inspirational content, a branded Mailchimp newsletter and many photo galleries. The website grew replete with maps, a book club blog, and logs that kept track of the Tammy and TJs trips around the world. We set up a structure that would allow them to ad content from anywhere they had internet. Tammy did most of the blogging on her laptop, thus the site is mostly sized to accommodate laptop screens.
