Websites
New sites and rebuilds, designed around what your visitors actually came to do. Copy shaping, training, and a launch that does not break your email.
30+ years of experience
Nonprofit work since the beginning
Senior attention on every project
No lock-in, cancel any month
How This Goes
Talk
A call, or coffee if you are close by. You describe the problem. I tell you honestly whether I am the right person to solve it.
Plan
A written scope with a fixed price, so you know exactly what you are buying before you commit to anything.
Build
You see it as it comes together rather than at the end. Changes are cheap while a thing is still being built, and expensive afterward.
Launch
I handle the domain, the hosting, the email, and the parts that usually break on launch day. You get trained on the parts you will touch.
Care
Optional, and cancellable any month. Updates, backups, monitoring, and a person who answers when something goes wrong.
What I Do
Branding
Identity from the ground up, or a careful repair of one that has drifted. Logo, type, color, and the rules that keep it consistent once other people start using it.
WordPress Plugins
Purpose-built plugins for the thing your organization does that no off-the-shelf plugin covers. Written to survive core updates, and documented so the next developer is not stuck.
Custom Solutions
Booking, member areas, directories, event check-in, and integrations between the tools you already pay for. Sometimes a plugin, sometimes an application of its own.
Consultation
Brand, marketing, and technology decisions, thought through with someone who has made them before. Useful when you need a direction rather than a deliverable.
Care
Updates, backups, security, uptime monitoring, and a person who answers when something breaks. Your site stops being a thing you worry about.
Everything I build is accessible as a matter of course. It is not a line item, and it is not a widget bolted onto the corner of your page. It is simply how a site should be put together. Formal audits are available as an add-on when you need it proven on paper.
Also available: print, email newsletters, content, and photography direction.
For Public Agencies and Nonprofits
Some Websites Now Have a Federal Deadline.
The U.S. Department of Justice set compliance dates for public entity websites under Title II of the ADA. The standard is WCAG 2.1 Level AA. Special district governments are named explicitly, which means fire, water, sanitary, port, parks, and school districts.
- Public entities serving 50,000 or more
- Entities under 50,000, and special district governments
Most district websites on this coast will not meet that standard as they stand today. Finding out where you are takes about a week, and you get a plain-English document your board can actually read.
If you are a private nonprofit, that deadline is not yours. Title II covers government bodies. Most nonprofits fall under Title III, which sets no date at all. What it carries instead is exposure, because demand letters over inaccessible websites arrive on nobody’s schedule. The work is the same either way. Only the reason for doing it changes.
Book a ReviewThat describes a regulation and is not legal advice. Compliance dates are from the Federal Register, 20 April 2026.
Case Studies
Nonprofit, arts and conservation
Emerald Curtain Collective
Four custom WordPress plugins for artist profiles, species education, event check-in, and a ticket waitlist, plus the newsletter the organization now sends itself.
Product, collaboration software
Threadspore
An invite-only collaboration service for nonprofit volunteer groups, built around the reality that volunteers are not all comfortable with software.
Product, accessibility tooling
Vesper Audit
A desktop accessibility auditing suite used by professional teams to test large public sector sites, and the reason our standards knowledge is first-hand rather than borrowed.
Nonprofit, conservation
Coast Range Association
Ongoing technology consulting for an Oregon forest advocacy organization, including a full platform assessment and a staged modernization plan.
Brands We Have Worked With
Where This Comes From.
Hi, I’m Steven. I started doing this as a teenager, rebranding mom-and-pop shops in my hometown and building pretty primitive websites in the early nineties. Since then it has been a handful of small agencies, a few startups, a cooperatively owned maker space in Arkansas, and over twelve years as a Chief Creative Officer building sites for public institutions across North America.
That public sector work is where accessibility stopped being a checklist for me. When your users are the entire public, design is as much an act of service as an act of taste.
I build software too. Vesper Audit is an accessibility auditing tool used by professional teams to test large public sector sites, so I spend a good part of most weeks looking at the specific ways other people’s sites break. It is a strange way to learn design. It is also the most useful thing I have.
Projects get staffed to fit. When a job needs a photographer, an illustrator, or a second developer, I bring in people I have worked with for years. What does not change is that the person you talk to is the person doing the work.
I’m on the Oregon Coast, where the sky still gets properly dark. If you are within an hour of here, I would rather come and see you.
Tell Me What Is Not Working.
A short email is enough to start. Describe the site, or the thing your site is failing to do, and I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it.