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How to Make YouTube Videos Look Great

Make YouTube Videos Look Great YouTube does a lot of things well, and most of the time it’s a handy way to get a video on your website. One area where they fall short, is the way embedded videos look. As designers, we spend a ton of time making sure a web site looks...

Help Fight Hosting Deficiency Syndrome

Help Fight HDS #thereishope About Hosting Deficiency Syndrome Hosting Deficiency Syndrome (HDS) is a serious problem plaguing the WordPress community. Symptoms include slow page load times, the need for caching plugins, poor security, out of date WP installations,...

Financial Advisor Websites | 5 questions to ask yourself

The Office Audit Back when I first started as a financial adviser, Van Kampen mutual funds was doing a big 'value add' push to attract more business. I'm not sure how successful their effort was for them, but one of the positive outcomes I received was an introduction...

Three Essential Elements of Websites for Mutual Funds

Three Essential Elements of Websites for Mutual Funds If you are one of the asset managers who are still wondering if a quality website is worth the investment, consider this: the internet is often the first place advisers and investors will learn about your firm....

Kitchen Electric Testimonial

Great Clients = Great Projects Now that their site has been up and running for a few months, we asked Paul and Sara Kitchen, owners of Kitchen Electric in Washougal, WA to share their experience of having a website built by Workshed. Thank you Paul and Sara for...

50% off a Social Media Makeover

Social Media Makeover UPDATE: For the rest of March, we're offering our social media makeover for 50% off! Social media is one of the first places prospective clients are going to "meet" you and your company. What will their first impression be? Make sure your...

5 Important Steps To Optimize Images For The Web

Images are essential to an effective website. Quality photos can mean the difference between a successful website and an ugly website that burns the retinas of it's viewers. Photos are especially important for websites that need to communicate anything visual; such as...

Latest Project: American-Marble.com

Telling the Story of a Business Unless you are a stone fabrication connoisseur, you may not realize the level of precision and craftsmanship that our client, American Marble and Granite or AMG, bring to their installations. I knew they did nice work because Evolutn...