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As part of James’ vocation within a monastery complex for 25 years (see About) he has been deeply engaged in the art of publishing—from running a Heidelburg Press to book and magazine design to being a lead designer/developer for websites that involved publishing, education, nonprofit, history, artifacts and ecommerce.
The exacting and creative demands of graphic design translate very well into web design—where in a limited space the designer needs to create elements that are aesthetic, unique, psychologically attractive to the site's natural or broad audience, easy and intuitive to navigate, very functional and engineered to rank high on Google, Yahoo! and other search engines.
James‘ and Andrea’s web design tools include expert use of WordPress, Dreamweaver, Javascript, PHP, CSS, and the creation of E-commerce websites. James also writes content for many of our web clients, and both Andrea and James deliver master-level SEO for clients needing SEO.
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Web design philosophy: Work closely with each client to craft an image-and-text look that suits their personal interests, services or products while drawing on design approaches that we can introduce them to, or that they have seen elsewhere and wish to incorporate into their site. Develop a look that excites and appeals to a certain audience or demographic, or broaden out for a more eclectic pallet of imagery and background space.
Visitors like innovation, but they like it fast loading. We specialize in sites that load fast on all browsers, yet, if desired, integrate some dynamic features: motion and fades of images and/or words. Navigation strategy is crucial, and we give each client all of our experience in creating navigation across the pages that is natural and sensible. Pages are well cross-linked to facilitate high search engine ranking. As well, we apply the latest techniques to building search engine ranking optimization into each site.
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Our website design includes the full range of WordPress types of sites, from blogs to brochure type sites to ecommerce sites with full cart and credit card processing functioning. I come out of a strong graphic design background (working in publishing houses among other environments) and as a web designer take a graphic design approach, yet keep in mind what is contemporary and what works on mobile phones—as mobile phone responsiveness is so important these days. We are also very familiar with Shopify, Squarespace and other ecommerce platforms, and do full-on web maintenance as well.
Our clients come from all over the Bay Area, from Los Angeles to New York City, and we build sites for both local presentation and companies or individuals reaching out to nationwide audiences.
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Completely new website design for the most prominent national men’s health nonprofit site, over 146 pages with full back end library function, full SEO (in development) and maintenance of this Men’s Health Network site.
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Website is in development.
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Website project is in progress.
Design and expansion for wider marketing purposes of this rooftop and ground-mount solar panel installation company in San Jose, with full SEO, Google Ads campaign, Adroll campaign, Facebook Ads campaign and other marketing outreach channels.
Website design for a nonprofit project offering information and data on the equity status of women in college athletics - called Accelerate Equity, including integrating live-adjust Tableau graph presentations.
Website is in development.
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SEO is in development.
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Site in development.
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This is a historic first: a website for the first major all-inclusive retirement center in Ethiopia in Africa. This site is being used by the innovator of this project, Fessha Taye, to present to high level Ethiopian government officials and leading business people and thinkers.
Web design for Bay Area optometrist.
Web design for soil and stone vendor with emphasis on visitor functionality, ease of choices and edifying information.
Site in development.
Web design and SEO for porous paving materials - outdoors and indoors - SF Bay Area and national.
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Web design for a custom cabinet shop in northern CA.
Web design for virtual assistant services.
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Web design and SEO for a Marin County therapist.
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Web design for a Marin, Napa and Sonoma plumber and HVAC company.
Web design and SEO for an aging issues, lifestyle consultant and public speaker.
Web design, logo design and SEO for a network cabling, VOIP and WiFi wiring installation services company in Los Angeles.
Web design and SEO for a family psychologist in upstate New York.
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Web design for a national site providing drone surveillance services.
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Web design for a California artist.
Web design for a Santa Barbara attorney.
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