para-CAD
“I've actually had people ask me how much I paid to have my site built. I tell them...........get the Sandvox app and about 3 hours on a Saturday night. People have commented that they like that my site [since it] isn't all crowded with pop up advertising, or a 'blast' of banner ads all over the...” — Mike Morrison
South Golden Studios
“I get lots of compliments for my site and have been asked to construct a few for some of my associates'.” — Donny Wilmen
Don Menges Photography
“I chose the "Rounded Blue" design because it was graphic, yet simple. I didn't want a complicated design to distract from my images.” — Don Menges
Paula Garbarino Furniture Maker
“This website presents a furniture gallery, furniture that I have designed and crafted over the last 25 plus years. There is also information about my background training, experience, teaching and publications. The furniture is subcategorized as seating, casework, tables, and marquetry details.” — Paula Garbarino
Francis Screen Printing
“Sandvox was easy to use and I had lots of templates to choose from. The one that we use work best for the layout of out business.” — Kurt Francis
Random Acts of Tech
“Community is a huge factor with my site. It is necessary for me and others like me to continue doing what we do. For example, I posted a link to my site on a forum about making your own PCB boards. I thought I might get some traffic that way. I was surprised when I received an email reply from that...” — Marcus Cooper
Eye Spy Proofreading & Editing
“Most contacts, of course, are for Nancy, the proofreader and my sister, but one day I got a very nice email from someone who was her competition, telling me, the site designer, what a great site she thinks it is. That was definitely a feel good for me. I do this strictly for love, not money, but an...” — Lois Post
Rebekah Gould - Lighting Designer
“I ended up choosing the Sandvox design that I am using currently because it appeared clean and professional. Visitors to my site can easily access different parts of my site. The color scheme is not distracting and matches my business cards perfectly.” — Rebekah Gould
Fusako NAKAGAWA Works
“My website shows examples of my doll making work. This varies from ‘Japanese traditional Hina’ dolls, to creative dolls. I work in a traditional way using wood, Japanese paper, silk, and white Spanish chalk (shell powder fixed with glue) and fine stone powder. I use Meiji, Taisho, Showa...” — Fusako Nakagawa
Jennifer's Hamam
“I liked the black background and how the warmth of the burnt orange text really came through. I also liked the big area for the picture of one of our weavers, which is highlighted on each page. The green of the menu bar gives it that natural feel.” — Jennifer Gaudet
Pop-Up-Kort.DK
“I use Distinction Grey because I like that it is all white and the arrows and letters are ease to find, read and it is easy to navigate on the site. I like that there are not any disturbing effects or colors, so the focus is on what I want to show.” — Kristine Suhr
Mac's Electric
“I had lists of salvaged products in spreadsheets I wanted to sell. I was able to save them as HTML documents and then import them to Sandvox as raw HTML pages. In the future I hope to create new pages for the products and include pictures and PayPal integration to create an e-commerce store.” — Steven McBurney
Willow Floristry
“The website is designed to tell a little bit about us and provide some pictorial guidance around the type of services we offer. For example, wedding flowers, gifts, sympathy tributes or arrangements for corporate needs.” — Anthony Oag
Tatau Awards
“Tatau Awards is a monthly competition rewarding the best Polynesian tattoos done by top artists all over the world. My goal is to help people find world class tattoo designs and tattoo artists, and to promote those international artists.” — Philippe Meunier
MikeHendrixArt & Graphic Specialist
“My website has gathered attention in a short time. It shows my good natured personality while expressing my desire to do a quality job.” — Mike Hendrix
Sports Lighting UK
“The design suited my requirements and enabled me to tweak it to display our services in a professional manner.” — Richard Kay
ONYX
“This design is the same one I used for my book's site. I like working with the simplest possible format since I find that that allows the maximum expression for the work I'm presenting and lots of flexibility in how I present it.” — Ronald Williams
Urban Green
“By far the majority of our current clients came to us via the Internet and nearly 100% told us that it was because of the beautiful photographs of our work. So, we knew we needed a site that was specifically tailored to showing photography. We used Krypton for Sandvox as it was designed...” — Dennis Walker
Todd A. Mueller
“Using Sandvox was easy and quick and I had my website up in running in no time. I have a business associate who was having a professional web company creating their website at the same time, and is still waiting to get a final product.” — Todd A. Mueller
Southeast Studios Inc.
“We organize the wants & needs of our clients into buildings and interior spaces. Our website states how we approach this, and it shows examples of past designs and our experience by project type (built or not). These categories include Commercial Buildings, Multifamily residential & Mixed Use,...” — Phillip Andrew Jessup
Problem Solved DPP
“The raw HTML and code injection features of Sandvox, allow for a lot of design to be done without a lot of coding knowledge, but still leaves it open for custom additions to the site.” — Jason Phillips
Nature by Design
“It gave the most "earthy" quality to reflect the nature of my business. I would have liked a more casual, relaxed feel as the one I chose is a bit formal and "corporate".” — Lisa Burton
Kathy Hanson & Assoc.
“My business card is along the top banner on my site. Because it's not an average business card, it's seldom filed with the other business cards that are collected in the regular course of business. It's been a joke over the years, so I decided to document where people put my card. Those photos are...” — Kathy Hanson
Joie Villeneuve - Fine Artist
“I chose this design for the website because it looks "clean" and uncomplicated. Not a lot in the way of distractions, therefore, the paintings could stand out.” — Joie Villeneuve
Creative Awakenings, LLC
“Once again, for us it was most helpful for us to watch, review and follow the Sandvox video tutorial for Mac. It allowed us to build and publish the site quickly.” — Ric Wirick
Stewart + Tsai Architects Inc.
“Just uploaded the site last week, hopefully hear some comments soon. We noted that there were more than 80 views of our post on the Karelia Forum for our new website and one good comment.” — Grant Stewart
Bellflower Landscaping
“I like the Sandvox design I use now because it sets it apart from the many formal websites that often look alike. It is more "rustic" looking.” — Jeffrey Camp
The Garden Tutors
“We are using this site to explain about our garden design, consultation and garden tutoring services.” — James Rogers
The Planning Group
“After having the new website up for a day, I contacted an architectural firm that is working in the areas we want to work in. I got an email the next day from the owner of the firm saying he wanted to meet, and we had great work on the website. That was a golden moment that I hope to repeat...” — John Lanterman
Robert Broadfoot, Scenic Designer
“When I launched the website the first thing I did was post it to Facebook to get feedback from industry friends. It was uniformly positive and almost entirely content oriented, which means no one had any complaints about the architecture of the site - the template was flawless and professional so...” — Robert Broadfoot
Will Rothfuss Design
“I chose the "Smooth Dark" template because of its simple design and functionality. Theatrical and television design portfolios are usually set against a dark background so the photos "pop". This mimics the way we see television and theatre.” — Will Rothfuss
Jim's Wallpaper and Painting
“I like the photo albums better than my last choice. The header is more professsional looking to new browsers too.” — James Martorelli
George L. Strout
“I used only my own photos in the entire site. I used a favorite HTML snippet for a scrolling banner on the web design pages.” — George Strout
Edel Filzdesign
“I want to show all my friends and the interested public my felting design art work. Allen Freunden und der interessierten Öffentlichkeit möchte ich mein exquisites Filzdesign und die stilvollen Filzobjekte zeigen.” — Ludmila Goller
Botanical Photo Art
“The Sandvox design that I selected was a perfect match for the artistic fine art photo content that I wanted to display. The art deco features of the template design showcases the art beautifully.” — Susan Johnston
Veronika Marosy Illustrations
“There are my own hand-made information illustrations and animations that help people understand processes, exercises, use of objects or products. I turn complex information into a simple illustration that makes it easier for people to actually gain knowledge. This way it becomes accessible for a...” — Veronika Marosy
James Carter Optical Consulting
“The Sandvox Aqua design gave the closest design in look and feel to the intended site design and "look and feel."” — James A. Carter III
Winning Smiles
“We reach out to people all over the world through our website, who especially like the same day veneer service we provide. They find us on our website, come to London for a few days, and head home with a new smile!” — Demir
www.atheatreproject
“my website is designed to promote Richard Pilbrow's new book A THEATRE PROJECT. This is the story of an upstart company, Theatre Projects, in the world of British Theatre that created the stage lighting and sound design professions and revolutionized theatre lighting, sound and technology, then...” — Richard Pilbrow
Modern Revision Furniture Design
“A great tool I use is the free counter available from statcounter.com. Tracking every click is easily done by adding a raw HTML pagelet into each page of your site. I chose the "invisible" counter so that the look of my site wouldn't change. Statcounter provides the code to be injected when you...” — Jody Racicot
Twittens
“The website, like the business is brand new - so the wild anecdotes of my success will have to wait a little while. There is little question that it has gotten quite a bit of traffic and attention, especially considering that as of this moment I'm still not actually offering anything for sale. That...” — Canucklehead
42 Marketing
“We didn't really go to town with the web building techniques for this site, but it's going to keep growing and we'll keep on adding content as we go too, so look out for new stuff coming along.” — Ann Pawley
www.MosaicOfArt.com
“Through both formal and informal interviews, we engage the big themes: identity, memory, process, spirituality, etc. But we also talk about practical issues in an art professional's working life: tools and materials, organization, dealing with the business of making a living.” — George Fishman
Turner Graphics - Quality Screen Printing / Promotional Products
“We needed something simple and clean that was easy to navigate and pleasing to the eye. The design we chose had a simple menu design, a nice size banner/header area at the top so we could showcase some design work.” — Todd Turner
Carin Glaser Photography
“My website is designed to provide not only information on the services I provide but to allow my clients to view and order their finished products online. My goal is to display my work as well as assure my clients that they are going to get the quality and style they are looking for.” — Carin Glaser
SESCI welnesses
“Product-overview for the salesperson who's responsible for selling the products for JEE-O and Sterk design in The Netherlands” — MAZ Vormgevers
Tasha Rein I Handmade Gemstone Jewelry Designer and Yoga Instructor
“My weekly Goodie Bag! has led me to realize that I am a better writer than I ever thought. I love writing it and sending it out. The response has been amazing, each week my clients send heartfelt emails back to me saying that the message in my Goodie Bag! that week was just what they needed to hear...” — Tasha Rein
Levi Cunningham Design
“I chose "clean sheets" because it allowed the cleanest look and the highest level of customization. I needed a template that would allow me to control every aspect of the design and "clean sheets" was it.” — Levi Cunningham
Mastermix Audio Media
“I am using a modified version of Skyline, where I replaced the cityscape with a picture of an audio console. I like the color scheme.” — Kenneth McGee
Jeff Grant Innovation
“I used the "Raw HTML" page feature to embed some code from LinkedIn's "Developer Page" that allowed a real time feed of my LinkedIn profile which I consider to be my "source repository" for past, present and future professional experiences and resume generation.” — Jeffrey Grant
Tharp-Hamilton Woodworking
“When copying text from word documents. First copy them into text edit and select "Make plain text". Then, copy all the plain text into the page. If you want indents on the site, don't do them in word and then copy over because it will be really difficult. Its easier to copy a tab from text...” — William Hamilton
Shirts
“This site doesn't use any extra tidbits. The only non-obvious thing about it may be the photo-grid on the start page. But once you know that this can be set up by choosing the desired settings in the Page → Collection part of the Inspector, even that is quite simple.” — Sven-S. Porst
MAZ vormgevers | 2- en 3D vormgeving
“All our work in design and other artistic things” — Marko Peters
Ross Thompson Design
“My site is my online portfolio showing samples of my graphic design work, fabric design and photography for potential clients in Montreal and elsewhere. My real passion is fabric design and am working on a small business silk screening on silk and hemp fabric with which I create unique pillows and...” — Ross Thompson
constructivedisorder.com
“I tried quite a few of the templates, and ended up with the one I'm using because it was simple, clean and let me do almost everything I wanted to do, although it sometimes took some head-scratching.” — Eric Smith
