I’ve been designing and building websites since 1996, and have created hundreds of sites. I’ve created everything you can imagine–for many years I even specialized in interactive animated Flash websites.

I wanted to keep this page more relevant to the times, so below I’ve included just a handful of recent websites built on the WordPress platform. Need a site? Let’s talk.

Joe and Penny Alarid started this award winning family brand “Tondré” in 2005. Joe is a lifetime farmer as he grew up on the family farm that his parents Yvonne and Tondre Alarid bought in the 1950’s. Under the fine tutelage of his father Tondre, Joe planted 6 ½ acres of Pinot Noir grapes in 1997 to augment the vegetables and citrus they were already farming. Although they knew their soil was good for grapes, they did not foresee 6 ½ acres becoming over 100 acres of the finest quality Pinot, Chardonnay, Riesling and Syrah fruit blanketing the Santa Lucia Highlands, Monterey County.

I started working with Joe and Penny in 2006, and developed all three iterations of their website over the years. This website features ADA-Compliance, which is a growing area of concern for website designers as ADA Title III lawsuits increase.

http://tondrewines.com

The company was Founded by Harold Hadley in 1945 in Toledo, OH. Mr. Hadley was a boating enthusiast who was highly concerned about the safety of sailors. He developed one of the very first freon-powered, dual-trumpet horns that quickly became known as the “Hadley Horn”. They literally invented the air horn as we know it today. I started working with Hadley in 2011 when I was brought on to do the graphic design for their new website. It became a long relationship in which I did video production, e-marketing and two versions of their website.

I was introduced to Frank Osborne, CEO of HawkGrips in December, 2017. He expressed to me that he didn’t feel his website reflected his brand image the way he envisioned. They were running a great company with a terrific brand, but their technology from top to bottom was in dire straits. I had to start with the greatest need first, which was to at least get the website to a functional state so they could transact sales. So starting in January 2018, I rebuilt their website and we launched it in February. This was just the beginning of a great 2-year project working with them.

Brad Hess called me to do a new website for his 30 year old manonry business. He didn’t have any idea what he wanted, other than knowing what he had didn’t fit his business and he was looking for a step up. We started with revamping his logo, which included hand sketching his Bernese Mountain Dog pulling a masonry cart, and six rounds of revision to get it just right. I gave his website a shot, and wanted to make it clean, and used a dark yellow design to give it industrial strength. Brad liked it, and the rest is history.

Here’s a logo and website project that I thought came out nicely. Dawn T. Gulick, PhD, PT, ATC, CSCS is a well-respected clinician, author, and professor. She developed a terrific mobile app to help other clinicians, but she didn’t feel her logo and website was adequate.

After we got her logo across the finish line I redesigned her website, and created 4 sub brands that are cohesive with her main logo.

My relationship with Pepe International was an interesting journey. I met Rich Pepe in 2005 when I had my marketing agency in Monterey, CA. The first project I worked on was his website, and he quickly became my bigget client. Pepe was one of those guys that just had a million irons in the fire and was only lacking someone who could take them and do something with them. I became that guy. Over the next seven years, I worked on numerous websites, did all the marketing and created brands for several restaurants, wine bars, a bakery, several wine companies, and a line of bread, pasta sauce and snack nuts. I even worked on the film crew for a reality TV show pilot called “Peace of Cake” with Joe Pantoliano which was interesting to say the least.

In 2011 is when it got really interesting, Pepe tossed me the keys to the vacant old Pivetti building in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and challenged me to help him build a new restaurant. Now when you walk into Vesuvio, you’ll see a wall that’s a full recreation of the Villa Dei Misteri, and several other frescos from the ancient ruins of Pompeii, and a restaurant that I spent 8 months helping to create from the ground up. The new restaurant became a showcase for all the brands I helped build over those seven years, including the wines and cocktail brands.