Category: Web Design Insights
Expert web design tips, WordPress tutorials, and portfolio showcases from Bloomington, Indiana. Learn professional web design best practices and industry insights.
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AI Can Build Your Website. That’s Not the Hard Part Anymore.
AI can build websites faster than ever. The harder part is deciding what to build, testing assumptions, and thinking critically about the result.
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Is Your Website Actually Usable by Everyone? A Practical Accessibility Check for Bloomington Businesses
Practical accessibility checks for business owners, from keyboard navigation to readable text. Find barriers that could be keeping customers from using your website.
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How Much Does a WordPress Website Actually Cost?
Understand what drives WordPress website costs and what to ask before hiring a designer, with context for Bloomington business owners.
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Eighteen Years of Keeping a Bookstore Online
A long-term partnership with Academic Scholarly Books in Bloomington, Indiana Some client relationships are defined by a single project. Others are defined by time. My work with Joe Grant of Academic Scholarly…
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Ava's Waste Removal: 7 Years of Website Support for a Growing Local Business
Project Overview Ava's Waste Removal has been a client since February 2019 - one of our longest-running partnerships. What started as a custom website build for a small trash hauler in Ellettsville…
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Economy Fireplace: Website Redesign, Google Business Updates & Workspace Setup
Project Overview Economy Fireplace serves homeowners across the Bloomington area with fireplaces, stoves, and accessories. Ahead of the busy season, they needed a modern website, a clearer path to request quotes, and…
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Why I’m Proud to Be a Chamber Member (Since Way Back When)
I’ve officially been a Chamber member through David Martin Design since at least 2021, but my ties go back even further. I still have emails from 2009, when I was part of…
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From Classroom to Client: How Shawn Haymaker Counseling Earned a Perfect 100 Website Score
What changed and what was measured This project combined content organization, metadata and internal-link improvements, analytics setup, accessibility work, and performance tuning. The screenshot below records a HubSpot Website Grader score of…
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Behind the Lens: Capturing Trashion Refashion 2025 for The B-Square Bulletin
Last Sunday, I had the pleasure of photographing one of Bloomington’s most creative and community-driven events - Trashion Refashion 2025 - on assignment for The B-Square Bulletin. Held at the historic Buskirk-Chumley…
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From Roots to Results: The Story of Indiana Greenscape Solutions
The Seed of an Idea The story of Indiana Greenscape Solutions begins with Kelly and Beth Fort - partners in both family and business - who, along with their four daughters, Rayne,…
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Transferring Your Website to a New Web Designer: A Step-by-Step Guide
To take over an existing website, first confirm ownership and arrange separate access to the domain, hosting, website, email, and analytics. Back up the site and document a rollback plan before changing…
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WordCamp US 2024: A Celebration of Community, Collaboration, and Creativity in Portland
There’s something magical about visiting a new city for an event like WordCamp US - the excitement of a vibrant WordPress community coming together combined with the chance to explore the local…