Open Waves Design

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I make websites work better for small businesses.

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My Work

Recent Work

Jo’s Desserts

Joanna needed a website for her new cookie decoration business. She has an active social media presence and needed a website to point traffic to so people could see her work and … More

JG Beef

JG Beef is a craft beef family farm in Ohio. The owners needed a new website that could allow their customers to order their products and integrate into the inventory management … More

Legacy Valves

Legacy Valves is located in Oklahoma City, OK and manufactures high-pressure, compact manifold floating-ball valve systems. They needed a new website for their business and so I … More

New Leaf Psych

New Leaf Psych is a psychotherapy business in Southampton, PA serving the needs of men, women, adolescents, and children. URL: http://newleafpsych.com … More

Caity MacNeill

Caity MacNeill is an actress who needed a new website to show off her resume, as well as her production photos and videos. URL: http://caitymacneill.com … More

After The Stork

After The Stork is a small business owned by Georgette Kerr in Southeastern PA that offers newborn care and parenting support for your growing family. Her existing website was old … More

Recent Articles

Training Customers to use WordPress

When I tell my clients they will be able to update their site on their own, the most common response is disbelief. It's easy to forget that people who don't develop websites … More

My favorite WordPress books

A quick review of some of my favorite WordPress books! I already mentioned most of these in my recent post about learning WordPress, but here's what I learned and other … More

Where I get answers to my WordPress questions

When I first started learning WordPress about 10 years ago, I frequently broke my personal website and quickly had to figure out the problem to get it back online. Luckily I also … More

My Resources for Learning WordPress

Over the years I've found several useful resources for learning WordPress, whether as a designer/developer building themes or a user learning how to get the most of using it for … More

How I Learned WordPress

I first discovered WordPress over ten years ago, when I was looking for a blogging tool that could also be used to make websites. I had been using Xanga before that, and MySpace … More

Using WordPress for your Business

There's plenty of competition out there for software to run your business website. Many proprietary companies make similar claims about how easy it is to use their service to build … More

Location

I am located in Lansdale, PA, which is in Montgomery County about an hour outside Philadelphia.

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