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updated: Jun 17, 2011, 8:00 AM

We are a local architecture firm looking for a web designer that can provide us with a new website that is fun, contemporary, and energetic! Anyone have suggestions?

Places People Are Talking About:

Elda Schaffield	Gomersall Designs	GordonSterling
Lepere Studio	Naseem Hyder	On Target Graphics
The Wild Web Women

What People Are Saying:

COMMENT 183816	2011-06-17 08:17 AM
Diane Gomersall of Gomersall Designs. She's extremely talented and personable, great to work with.
COMMENT 183822	2011-06-17 08:23 AM
I would be happy to review your project! Samples of work can be previewed here: http://portercommunication.com/ Best, Grant
COMMENT 183825P	2011-06-17 08:24 AM
I do web design and I guarantee you I am less expensive than anyone else. Some of my sites are YourRomanticSantaBarbaraWedding.com, SbWeddings.com, sb8ball.com, SbMensGolfClub.com. Email me at sbpoolleague@cox.net if you are interested.
COMMENT 183898	2011-06-17 09:46 AM
Valerie at GordonSterling graphics is really experienced, professional and has amazing artistic vision.
COMMENT 183917	2011-06-17 10:15 AM
I second Valerie at Gordon Sterling!
COMMENT 183942	2011-06-17 11:02 AM
The Wild Web Women! Look them up!
COMMENT 183963	2011-06-17 12:30 PM
I love Meredith at Homegrown Graphics. Fun and great to work with.
COMMENT 183966	2011-06-17 12:39 PM
Sorry! That was "our" examples. These smartphones...!
COMMENT 184043	2011-06-17 03:31 PM
Look up Holly at Lepere Studio - she's on the web
COMMENT 184051	2011-06-17 03:49 PM
Hi there, Before you get taken by someone who does the Click-and-Spell version of web development, a few things to consider: 1) Decide on a budget up front. Is it worth $1000 to you? $10,000? 2) Is this part of an overall change to your branding, logo, image? Or just an update to an aging site? Do you have a look and feel you like (business cards, logo, printed materials for your company, etc), and that a developer can work from? 3) Consider getting a graphic artist separate from a developer, or using a studio/group that offers both. They are very different skills, someone good at one is rarely good at the other. 4) Know your audience - who visits your site? Why? What information do they need? Does a "fun and and energetic" site really serve them, or better information cleanly delivered?
COMMENT 184091	2011-06-17 05:13 PM
I strongly recommend Jona at On target Graphics. She is fast and smart. http://www.on-targetgraphics.com/
COMMENT 184100P	2011-06-17 05:34 PM
Valerie at GordonSterling, no question about it! just look at her website and projects: http://www.gordonsterling.com
COMMENT 184195	2011-06-18 07:07 AM
Bill @ studio706
COMMENT 184215	2011-06-18 08:13 AM
Cautionary tale: 1.Being friends with a great web site optimizer Steve Penny, always make sure your written contract with a website developer includes "searchability". There are too many artists out there who make pretty pictures which are not searchable. 2. We have a computer business which has experienced 3 different businesses in 6 weeks whose website designers have totally screwed up the company E-Mail, Internet because they were too stupid and untrained to talk to us 1st re: what was needed on the IT side. So best bet is to meet with an optimizer 1st, insist designer coordinate with IT, insist that site is searchable. Spiders only read pictures as blank, text must be outside pictures. Some designers are too stupid to take the 10 minutes to read the Google specific instructions.
COMMENT 184262P	2011-06-18 09:51 AM
Check SIDEKICKCREATIVE.COM! They are great....and fun to work with.
COMMENT 184278	2011-06-18 10:21 AM
Without a doubt, the best in town in Elda Schaffield at sbwebdesigner(dot)com. She does a great job with websites and also knows all the bells and whistles too like security, forms, tracking visitors, optimizing the site to get more visitors, etc. She is brilliant. I don't know her # off-hand, but you can google sbwebdesigner and I'm sure she will have samples of her work. Did I say she's the best?
COMMENT 184323P	2011-06-18 11:52 AM
Naseem Hyder has developed a site for one of my business's locations and is currently working on a new site for our other location. Excellent job, highly creative, easy to work with, responsive. I can recommend without hesitation. www.naseemhyder.com
COMMENT 184944	2011-06-21 07:34 AM
Daniel Potter at silverthreaded(dot)com. He's local, honest, is great with design, and really understands how to construct a site for optimization. Check him out.
COMMENT 294676P	2012-07-06 10:16 AM
NDIC is an awesome web development company here in Santa Barbara that has been in business for over 17 years, http://www.ndic.com. As an existing customer I can't recommend them highly enough. They're strong in design, programming and SEO, with employees that specialize in each of these areas. I learned the hard way, a good designer is rarely a good programmer and vice versa... With these guys I didn't have to worry about that, the designers design, the developers do the programming and the SEO guys focus on optimizing my site and getting me higher page rankings. An experienced and professional team and a huge relief to have found them...
COMMENT 297146P	2012-07-13 11:36 AM
Oops! I forgot to include the link for the above comment: http://www.ndic.com
COMMENT 394454	2013-04-07 02:56 PM
I would recommend that people take a look at Pacific Media Concepts here in Santa Barbara. Tyson and Ryan are good people and very knowledgeable about all things "web" including social marketing.