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Photography

Good photography can either make or break your entire web experience. It sets the tone for everything else to come. Unsplash provides beautiful high-resolution photos that are royalty free. If you want something more personal, contact me and I can connect you with a whole slew of freelance photographers around West Michigan who would love to work with you.

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Unsplash

Over 550,000 free (do-whatever-you-want) high-resolution photos brought to you by the world’s most generous community of photographers. With a huge library of photos and thousands more being added each day, chances are we’ve got a photo for you. Find inspiration in the new photos we hand-select every day or use our search to find and download exactly what you’re looking for.

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iStock

iStock by Getty Images is one of the world’s leading stock content marketplaces, offering millions of hand-picked premium images at ridiculously low prices that you can only get from us. Today we remain an industry leader and key destination for creative business professionals who want to make a big impact without breaking the bank. We believe that imagery has the power to move the world. We also believe that our customers deserve the very best stock content – that’s why we’re proud to offer millions of bold, unique stock images you can only get from us.

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PicMonkey

PicMonkey helps people and businesses stand out in a sea of sameness with impactful visuals that tell their brand story. We create image editing tools that truly get what it means to compete across digital and real-life domains. Flexibility, collaboration, rapid iteration—all the power and mojo that designers and non-designers alike need to get to awesome, faster.

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Pexels

By providing free stock photos Pexels helps millions of creators all over the world to easily create beautiful products and designs. Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Pexels license. All photos are nicely tagged, searchable and also easy to discover through our discover pages.

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Pixabay

Pixabay.com is an international website for sharing high quality public domain photos, illustrations, vector graphics, and film footage. As of November 2017, Pixabay offers over 1,188,454 free photos, illustrations, and vectors and videos.

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Take A Look At Some

Recent Projects

From nonprofits to corporations to musicians to online stores, we can build it all! Check out some of our projects listed below and if anything catches your eye, feel free to reach out and we can keep that in mind when build out your website.

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Take A Look At Some

Recent Projects

Andrea Napierkowski
Owner of CurlyHost

A good website makes it a business... makes it real... grows your ideas...

CurlyHost has worked on over 650 projects since we started back in 2011 and each one has given us insight into what works (and what doesn’t). We enjoy what we do and can’t wait to partner with your organization to tell your story online in an engaging and thoughtful way. Click around our website to check out our tools or see our past work to get inspired!

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Pet Tales ( @pettalesrescue ) is a non-profit rescue organization serving the greater West Michigan area. They are dedicated to rescuing dogs and cats left homeless in public shelters where they are at high risk of euthanasia, pets given up by their owners due to difficult circumstances, and those in danger of abuse or neglect.

Animals in their care are spayed or neutered, receive all appropriate veterinary care and treatment, and placed in nurturing foster homes while they await placement in their permanent homes. They all pets, regardless of age, breed, or ease of placement, which makes their rescue stand out from so many others.

CurlyHost, with the help of fantastic illustrations by Libby Vanderploeg ( @libbyvanderploeg ), helped bring digital life to a project that has helped so many people’s physical lives. The website now has a level of play appropriate for animal lovers and helps navigate users through the adoption and placement process. The site also features an online store where you can support Pet Tales in a variety of different ways.

In the spirit of this amazing project and the holiday season, please consider making a donation to Pet Tales directly OR check out their online shop where you can support your furry friends by sporting a Pet Tales teeshirt or Pet Tales mug.

#libbyvanderploeg #holidaygiftideas #shoplocal #adoptdontshop #shopsmallthischristmas #adoption #rescuedog #imgratefulfor #thinkbigshopsmall #petsofinstagram #shoppingwithsoul #dog #adopt #adoptapet #pet #petadoptions #cats #thoughtfulliving #rescuedogsarethebestdogs #rescuedogsarebest #fosteringsaveslives #rescueddogsarethegreatest #animalrescue #rescueme #adoptadoggie #petlovers #pets #animals #thanksgiving

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HeroRaise works tirelessly to serve our nation’s Heros, raising thousands of dollars for a variety of causes. With a growing following, HeroRaise needed a website with more functionality that allowed for automatic donations and payments, financial tracking, and less hands-on management. They were also looking to expand the site’s offerings with memorials and provider listings free of charge.
With a long list of needs and wants, HeroRaise turned to CurlyHost to design and build the new site. CurlyHost simplified the fundraising management immensely, creating a crowdfunding site that allows Heroes to create and manage their own campaigns completely free. Users looking to donate can browse listings by category or search by keyword or location. Donations are a simple checkout process and social sharing is seamlessly integrated to encourage spreading the word.
CurlyHost also added an obituary board where any user can post a picture and a message honoring a loved one completely free. Where other websites might rely on advertising or charge hefty fees to post an obituary, CurlyHost designed a simple, low-maintenance solution that allows HeroRaise to offer the service at no charge to the poster.
Check out the full website here: https://www.heroraise.com/
#webdesign #website #webdevelopment #webdesigner #digitalmarketing #websitedesign #web #webdeveloper #ui #ux #uidesign #wordpress #coding #crowdfunding
#fallenheroes #neverforget #military #memorial #usa #heroes #armystrong #coastguard #semperfi #usairforce #militarylove #usmarine #soldiers #supportourveterans #deployed #usarmedforces

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Robyn Gobbel is a trauma therapist turned speaker, writer, and educator. She has a
big personality that loves all things pink and sparkly, while also being very
passionate about neuroscience, understanding the human brain, and healing
trauma. As a speaker, her vibrant personality and empathetic understanding of
people and trauma allow her to connect deeply with her audience and create an
engaging and meaningful experience.

CurlyHost did a complete revamp of Robyn’s former site, starting with a cleaned-up
layout and adding in a new color palette as fresh and playful as she is. Her live
training events and tickets are fully integrated into the site, so clients can register
without clicking away to an Eventbrite site and getting confused. Her speaking page
has fully embedded speaking samples that make it easy to get a feel for Robyn’s flair
and book her right through the website.

Check out her project with the link in our bio!

#webdesign #graphicdesign #website #marketing #webdevelopment
#webdesigner #branding #digitalmarketing #websitedesign
#webdeveloper #wordpress #coding
#ecommerce #creative #therapy #mentalhealth #selfcare #childtherapist
#mentalhealthawareness #adoptiontherapy #psychology #health
#therapist #adoption #counseling #mentalhealthmatters #trauma #psychotherapy
#counselling #curlyhost

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Revolution Farms is just off a quiet country road in Caledonia, Michigan where they’ve created the ideal indoor environment for fresh lettuce to thrive during every month of the Midwest climate. Inside the facility is a 50,000 square foot state-of-the-art greenhouse and an on-site packaging line.

By blending technology and biology, supply chain, and advanced agriculture, their farm harnesses natural light, automatically adjusts temperature, wind, shade, humidity, and carbon dioxide. Their fresh greens are cut at the peak of growth, immediately packaged on-site and delivered to your local grocery store in 1-2 days.

With their product design and content strategy provided by Burch Partners, their website is a fun and creative way to highlight the difference in hydroponic lettuce! Check out their website and find them in your local grocery store throughout West Michigan!

https://www.revolutionfarms.com/ - link in bio.

#eatyourlettuce #letuseatlettuce #revolutionfarms #eatyourgreens #nutrientdensefood #hydroponic #creativewebsitedesign #websitedesign #wordpress #curlyhost

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Because bad websites

Just don’t cut it anymore!

CurlyHost is committed to making the web creation process feel accessible to you. From mood boards, to design iterations, to some coding basics, you’ll feel empowered to change your mind and give your opinion, every step of the way. Let’s build the website you’ve always wanted!

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Download our portfolio or follow us and be inspired to create, develop, and find the tools that will take your website to the next level.

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