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Straightforward advice on design, SEO, WordPress, and everything that helps your business do better online.

Coronavirus Web Design
Right now, your customers need to know where your business stands. Are you closed? Do you have limited services? Or, are you essential, and its business as usual?

Logo Designer
In this post, I explain our logo design process from start to finish. That way you have a better understanding of our process and thoroughness involved in our logo and branding projects.

WordPress SEO Tips
Let’s talk about how WordPress can help boost the SEO of your website. If you don’t already have a website on WordPress, now’s the time to consider that. If you do, all the items below can be acted on immediately.

Business Card Designer
When a company hires us to create a website, one of the first things we ask is if we can look at their business card. More often than not, their business cards need to be re-designed.

International Website Design
Depending on the areas you are targeting, more than likely, your website will need to change to match the local environment. For example, your website in Germany...

Affordable Web Design Service
We have a website solution for small businesses service businesses who have a lower budget. We include everything they need for a professional website.

Collecting Payments on Your Website
For online payments, we can implement both one-time and recurring payments. We also help both for-profit and nonprofit companies.

If You’re a Hammer – Is Everything a Nail?
Just because we have the capability to deliver a specific product, doesn’t mean we should do that every single time. Every customer’s needs are different.

Costly Mistakes Local Companies Make With Their Website
Most businesses know their website can be improved. Learn about the costly mistakes local businesses make with their website.

ECommerce Web Design Questions
Today, someone asked me if it’s possible to add a shopping cart to an existing website.It is possible, and I want to go over what that will look like if you have a WordPress website.

We Can Improve Your Existing Website
Here at Graticle, we don’t just create brand-new websites. We also work on existing websites.

Logo Design Services in Longview, Washington
Everything we do goes back to making our customers lives better and easier. Whether that’s designing a fresh new logo that they are proud of or returning their phone call or email the same day.

Your Success Our Success
There's no question. Our customer's success is our success. If they do well, we do well. If they don't do well, we don't do well.

(Video) Common Web Design Questions
In this video, we cover common questions that we hear from prospective web design customers. We take care of everything for our customers.

(Video) Free Website Review
We offer a free web design review for anyone that asks. We run your website through our 35-point checklist to make sure it's up-to-speed and following industry best practices.

(Video) Why You Should Hire a Professional Web Designer – Poor Website on Do-It-Yourself Platform
Sure, do-it-yourself web design platforms will create a website, but will that website do anything for your business?

Restaurant Menu Design Refresh
In this video, I show you the restaurant drink menu that we designed for El Ranchero Family Mexican Restaurant in Longview, Washington.

(Video) Business Card Re-Design
In this video we go over a before and after business card re-design we did for one of our long-time customers.

(Video) Web Design on Shopify
In this video I show a before and after web design on a default template vs. custom design on a Shopify store for Epic Popcorn in Dyer, Indiana.

The Only Thing That Matters: Your Customers
If you’ve been in business or marketing for any length of time this shouldn’t be a new concept. But often it’s a hard concept to remember.

Longview Washington
I've called Longview, WA home for the past five years. It's a very nice community with a lot of great people in it and have enjoyed being here.

Words of Advice
Recently, I had the opportunity to speak to a couple local high school classes. I spent a lot of time thinking about what would be useful for these kids to know as they journey into the next chapter of their lives to and after college.

Mistakes People Make When Hiring a Website Designer
In this post, we want to go over those red flags so you know what to look for when hiring a website design company.

Is your website working for your business?
Let me guess, you have a great looking website. It hits all the marks. It's clear, concise and has great calls to action. But do you have any idea if it's actually working for your business?