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A website homepage for Super Excavators features a large tunnel under construction, with the text Digging Deeper With Quality, Expertise & Safety and a red Learn More button overlaid. The navigation menu appears at the top.

Super Excavators

Professional Business Website for Super Excavators  Super Excavators is a heavy civil construction and tunneling company that is extremely innovative, using cutting edge tools and technologies to solve some very complex tunneling projects. When they came to Matt Gerber Designs, they had recently expanded into Canada and were relying on
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A close-up of one child’s hands giving an apple to another, with the Sun Prairie Emergency Food Pantry logo and the message: “Providing Hope, One Meal at a Time” overlaid. Website menu and a red “Learn More” button are visible.

Sun Prairie Food Pantry

UX Website Design for Sun Prairie Food Pantry There’s nothing we love more than repeat customers and referrals and that’s just how we got the pleasure of working with Sun Prairie Food Pantry on their new UX website. We previously designed a website for Sunshine Place, a community outreach center
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A woman wearing glasses sits at a desk with a laptop, rubbing her eyes in apparent fatigue or stress. There is a notebook, pen, cup, and potted plant on the desk and sunlight streams in through a window.

Pitfalls of Do-It-Your-Self Web Design

Not too long ago, DIY web design for a business would have been a crazy concept. But thanks to new online tools like website builders, easy to use content management systems and ready-made web design templates, you no longer have to be tech savvy to get a website online. So
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A website homepage template with a purple and white color scheme, company logo, navigation menu, headline, call-to-action buttons, and an illustration of an open laptop in the center.

Custom Website Design vs Template-Based Design

Not all websites are created equal. There’s a fair amount of web designers who will start with a theme or template and work backwards to shoehorn a company into it. Maybe it fits some of the company’s needs or maybe it’s just pretty. Either way, it’s not the best approach
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Screenshot of a website homepage showing a lakeside forest scene at sunrise, with the title ANIKOWAAJIMOWINAN and a subtitle about sharing Anishinaabe knowledge. Below, a photo of three children and a short description are visible.

Ki’eshgitabaaning Cultural and Healing Lodge

Custom WooCommerce Site for Ki’eshgitabaaning Cultural & Healing Lodge Ki’eshgitabaaning Cultural and Healing Lodge is a wonderful organization located in Lake of the Woods, Ontario, Canada that is dedicated to keeping Anishinaabe culture and cultural traditions alive. They do this by sharing their culture through workshops, podcasts, songs, and stories.
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Home page of the Log Kayak Rack website, featuring colorful kayaks and canoes on wooden racks beside a log cabin, with a dog standing nearby and a lake in the background.

Log Kayak Rack

Custom WordPress eCommerce Site Design for Log Kayak Rac1k Log Kayak Rack is a company that makes and sells hand-crafted storage racks for kayaks, canoes and other small watercrafts in northern Wisconsin. They have years of experience designing and building these truly beautiful and high-quality storage racks out of cedar
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How Much Should an eCommerce Website Cost?

Building a new eCommerce website can be a costly investment. Depending on your needs, you can find that the prices for the design and development of a new eCommerce website can land anywhere between a few thousand and a few million dollars. That’s a huge range. So, why does the
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A person is working at a desk with a laptop, holding a receipt in one hand and using a calculator with the other. The desk is cluttered with papers, suggesting they are managing finances or doing accounting.

Cost of Building a New Marketing Website

A quick Google search will tell you that a small website to market your business could cost you anywhere from $1,000 to $50,000. That’s quite the range and not exactly what most people would find helpful, especially if you have a small business you’re trying to get online. So, what
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Why You Shouldn’t Use a Slider on Your Homepage

Sliders are prevalent across the web. You can find examples of them everywhere from big name brand sites to small business websites, dominating valuable homepage real estate, distracting users, increasing load time, cluttering messaging, and turning off customers. You can find them doing just about everything except increasing conversions.  If
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Homepage of W&E Radtke, Inc. features a close-up of a yellow flower, “HOME OF Northern Sunset PERENNIALS” text, navigation bar, and plant-related images and buttons below.

W. & E. Radtke

Custom WordPress Website for W.&E. Radtke W.&E. Radtke is a wholesale plant nursery in Germantown, Wisconsin. When they came to us, they had a very basic and outdated website that primarily served their existing customers. Along with their new website came some pretty big goals.  They weren’t looking to simply
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