A brand refresh for a beloved wedding website. Here Comes The Guide is a wedding website that matches engaged couples with their perfect venue. Not only did I use HereComesTheGuide.com to find my own wedding venue back in 2009, but I’ve also worked there full-time since that same year! I started my career at Here […]

A comprehensive yet easy-to-navigate website for a 15-module wedding venue education course. My full-time job is Creative Director of the wedding website Here Comes The Guide. I’ve worked there since 2009, and have seen the wedding industry go through many ups and downs—from the Great Recession to the California wildfires to, you guessed it, the […]

Site speed improves both user experience and SEO. Let’s be honest: Web users are all about instant gratification. So if your website takes too long to load (we’re talking more than 1–3 seconds, max), you risk a high bounce rate and missed opportunities to connect with your ideal clients. Plus, page speed—which is how fast […]

Trust is the first step to making the sale. Your website’s main goal is to convert viewers into buyers, so you NEED to be sure that it fosters a sense of trust with users. How do you do it? With the following list of what I like to call “trust factor” items. In order to […]

I’m a firm believer in listing pricing on your website. This is a hotly-debated topic, and I’m not saying that displaying pricing is right for 100% of businesses, but I do believe it’s crucial for us small, service-based businesses. Why? Two reasons: Transparency and qualifying your leads. For me, it comes down to this: I […]

Wanna know why optimizing your images is so important? Because humongous, full-resolution images are usually the worst offender when it comes to slowing down your website! So allow me to get on my web designer soap box: This is me begging you to stop uploading giant image files to your website. I’m here to show […]