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ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Jessica — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:58:38 +0000

So changes are ahead, and afoot, and all parts in between. We’re restructuring the business, putting the finishing touches on the book (which you can totally pre-order right here), and trying out this new financial model I think they call “budgeting.”

Most importantly we’re turning our focus more intently than ever on making couldbe studios into the best web design studio it can be, starting by giving thanks to all our fabulous clients. If you haven’t checked out our portfolio in a while, click on over and take a look at some of the terrific small businesses we’ve had the pleasure of working with.

If you’re on Facebook or Twitter, feel free to add us! We’ll be posting updates in both places regularly, and who knows, we might just unveil a special offer or two.

bloom essentials

Jessica — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:23:06 +0000

We love it when our clients ask for custom illustrations! Check out the site for Bloom Essentials. The Bloom Girl was so much fun to create.

does your copy hold up?

Jessica — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:47:09 +0000

Our first article is up at Digital Web Magazine, and we couldn’t be happier. We talk about optimizing text for a quick scan in order to make websites more accessible to new viewers. With all the RSS feeds we read every day (189 at last count) we appreciate it when articles are written in a way that facilitates scanning. Who has time to read every word? Though clearly you should read every word of our article. That just goes without saying.

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3…2…1…Contact!

Jessica — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:35:05 +0000

CouldBe Studios is finally live! We’re crazy excited. There might be dancing involved. We promise nothing.

Building this site has been a bit of a comedic adventure in Why Designers Should Hire A Designer. Despite all our proselytizing about keeping things simple, when it came to our own site we found ourselves trying to cram it full of every idea we’ve ever had. Seriously – the first iteration of the site practically did your dishes for you. And then, inevitably, we’d hit a wall. Pound our keyboards in frustration. Let the site sit for a while. Each time we came back to it we cut it down a little bit more, but there was still too much information and too little breathing room.

Finally, about a week ago, we started over. Clean slate, blank page. We had a brainstorming session in which we wrote down the three most important goals of couldbe studios: being able to offer affordable, quality design to people who don’t think they’ll be able to hire a designer; making accessible, standards-compliant sites; and providing complete identity solutions to small and home-based businesses. With those three things hanging out all by themselves on a piece of notebook paper, we went back to designing our site – and we knocked the whole thing out in a little over a weekend. Go, us!

We’re sort of glad it took so much work to get the site going, actually. Now that we know exactly what our clients are going through, we’ll be even better at helping them through the design process. And it is a process, you know? Getting from Point A to Point B isn’t always a straight shot.

So, yeah. Have a look at couldbe studios. Drop us a line if you want to hook up with a new site or a spiffy logo. And enter your name and e-mail address in the form on this blog to get our newsletter and stay on top of our latest happenings.