Small business web design portfolio from our Cincinnati studio. Client sites, what we shipped, and the results you can check.
Client builds with outcomes you can check, plus live reference demos for shops and trades still stuck on social feeds. Each project page documents the challenge, what we shipped, and what changed after launch.
Ohio Hound Rescue is the clearest performance story: a legacy site rebuilt for speed, with adoption listings that stay in sync. Retail, salon, and author projects show the same pattern: a phone-first page, a real way to inquire, and no template filler in the way.
From social-only presence to an owned digital storefront for a Cincinnati-area vinyl shop.
Spiral Groove Records needed a real digital home: a permanent place for location, hours, and contact so customers could find the shop and ask about stock. We built spiralgrooverecords.com, a clean storefront with hero branding ("An independent record store with an enormous selection of new and used vinyl, equipment, tapes, cds, and vinyl crafts"), location (215 Main Street, Milford, OH), store hours, email signup ("Stay in the loop on what's in!"), and a contact form so visitors can shout about what they're looking for and the team can respond.
Upgraded from a basic Square website to a custom site with better mobile experience and integrated booking.
Raquel's Square website was slow and hard to use on phones. She needed something that would work better for her clients and show off her work properly. We built a custom website that loads faster, works well on mobile, and makes it easy for clients to book appointments.
Replaced a generic Wix template with a custom website that better represents the fantasy book series and loads faster.
This project involved transforming a generic Wix template website for "The Heirs of Eleusa" fantasy book series into a custom, high-performance website. The original site lacked brand personality and had poor performance metrics. We rebuilt the entire site using modern web technologies, creating a custom design that captures the essence of the fantasy series while delivering exceptional performance and user experience.
Serving the tri-state since 2003—we rebuilt their legacy site into a fast hub for dog and cat adoptions, Petfinder listings, and foster intake.
Ohio Hound Rescue reached out for ongoing support: a small Cincinnati nonprofit whose legacy Wix site was hurting adoptions, with an overwhelmed volunteer board and no in-house web skills. We rebuilt on Next.js 14 with real-time Petfinder API sync, sub-second performance, and simple paths to adoption and foster forms.
A Cincinnati gameday bar & grill concept—built as a live demo with sports ticker, digital menu, and tap-to-call paths for hungry fans on mobile.
Copper Kettle Bar & Grill is a reference demo we built around a fictional neighborhood sports bar in Cincinnati. Originally scoped for a real bar-and-grill prospect, it now lives at copperkettle.greychair.io as proof of how we design hospitality sites that feel local, load fast on phones, and keep gameday info on an owned URL—not buried in Instagram stories.
A RISD-trained visual artist in Rockville, MD needed a portfolio that could win jobs and studio opportunities—not a Squarespace template that buried her film, 2D, and writing work.
Sarah Fenster, a former Rhode Island School of Design student, was looking for jobs and artist opportunities with a Squarespace site that could not organize work by medium. We rebuilt a minimal, gallery-first portfolio on Astro with Sanity CMS—sidebar navigation for Time-Based, 2D, and Writing, responsive project indexes, and fast loads for film stills and mixed-media pieces.
First website for Pace & Pints, a Pensacola nonprofit run club. Nothing to rebuild. Nowhere to send people before this.
They had a name and a weekly run. We put the next meetup, the RSVP, and the reason to show up on runclubpensacola.com.
Over-the-Rhine market and café concept—live demo with hours, café menu, and neighborhood copy for corner grocers tired of Instagram-only specials.
Vine St Market is a reference demo for a fictional OTR corner market and café. It lives at vinestmarket.greychair.io as proof of how we design retail sites that feel local, load fast on phones, and keep lunch specials on an owned URL—not buried in stories.
Northern Kentucky collision center concept—live demo with services index, estimate paths, and trust signals for body shops stuck on a thin Google listing.
Riverbend Collision Works is a reference demo for a fictional NKY body shop. It lives at riverbendcollision.greychair.io as proof of how we design service sites that build trust, load fast on phones, and capture estimate requests—not just phone tag after a storm.
Over-the-Rhine tavern concept—live demo with brunch menu, events rail, and order paths for neighborhood restaurants stuck on Facebook event posts.
The Red Booth Tavern is a reference demo for a fictional OTR comfort-food restaurant. It lives at redboothtavern.greychair.io as proof of how we design hospitality sites that feel neighborhood-scale, load fast on phones, and keep brunch hours on an owned URL.