Green Seeds Design
- Portland, OR 97211 (map)
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Green Seeds Design • via Phone or Internet • $60 per hour
- You'll be asked a few quick questions that will help describe your needs.
- You'll be asked to provide your contact information so that Matt Franklin will be able to get in touch with you.
- You'll have the option to get competing quotes from other qualified service professionals, saving you time and money.
Green Seeds Design has been offering complete service web solutions for large and small clients, since 2005, from basic design and branding to the most complicated e-commerce and content management systems. We value your energy and time.
Green Seeds Design will work closely with you to delivery your project on budget and on time. As skilled web developers, we pride ourselves on efficient, elegant solutions that exceed our customers’ expectations.
We value the people and our planet. We walk what we talk, and we're a business with a passion for sustainability, with 100% wind-powered hosting, green office practices and telecommuting. We also specialize in websites for environmentally/socially responsible businesses and organizations.
Your vision is valuable. Let's make it a reality on the web.
Reviews
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May 19, 2011
I am very thankful to Matt for highly professional and creative work with fine solutions to some problems on the website www.isenburgerart.org. I look forward to our ongoing work on this project and feel absolutely confident that he is the best!
– Sheila
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March 23, 2011
I've worked with Matt Franklin of Green Seeds Design for over 5 years and I'm extremely pleased with their design, hosting and innovative approach to website services. The team at Green Seeds works thoughtfully and creatively with their client's ideas and budget, and produce an end result that is quite simply, spectacular. I receive compliments each day on my website (visual and being "user friendly"); it's been a pleasure working with this team and I highly recommend their services. I'm proud of their noble efforts in choosing wind power to host websites, and I appreciate their thoughtful approach to alternative energy solutions. If you are looking to develop an efficient and beautiful website and align with an honorable team of professionals, Green Seeds Design is the company you want.
Thank you Matt and Saul ... for all things,
Elise– Elise
Question and answer
Q. Why does your work stand out from others who do what you do?
A. It is focused on building the internet presence of permaculture, natural building, farming non-profits, and and "green" businesses. Ideas for building sustainably.
Q. What do you like most about your job?
A. The independence I have to work with each client individually allows me the time to build a great relationship and understand clearly how I can solve a problem.
I love that my job allows me to be creative and use my knowledge, inspiration, and motivation for what I consider to be worth my time promoting.
Q. What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?
A. Can you fix this for me, I broke it?
Can you do this?
Is this something you can do?
How much is it going to cost to get this done?
Can you look into this for me?
Do you have time to do some work?
Q. What do you wish customers knew about you or your profession?
A. I wish that customers knew how much I love photography and being in nature, hiking, camping in the mountains, and visiting the coast. That I'm into energy efficiency, rainwater harvesting, urban farming, small houses, cob, chickens, and will someday get my photographs together for a show or book.
Q. How did you decide to get in your line of work?
A. Having the internet when I was in the middle of high school, and Black and White hand processed photography got me started with computer graphics, website design, programming, and site development.
Online, it was being able to communicate through chat rooms, the coolness of email, and finding 'rare' music from my favorite bands - got me to thinking... 'this is cool, how does it work?' I taught myself primitive graphics programs, then got into Photoshop.
Q. Describe your most recent project, what it involved, how much it cost, and how long it took.
A. My most recent project is for The Eric and Jula Isenburger Society. A 501(C)(3) non-profit corporation with the goals of making Isenburger's works accessible to scholars and to the public, sponsoring research on the artist and his life, and organizing exhibits and conferences.
The particular work involved setting up a new image gallery CMS for all the paintings and drawings - that can be easily added to and ordered. I had to theme the CMS to fit the general website design.
The cost was $1200+
Q. If you were advising someone who wanted to get into your profession, what would you suggest?
A. Get a grasp of the basics to where you can hand write things. Find tutorials, and do them. Use open source code and apply them to your projects. Create projects. Play. Experiment with what others are already doing. Pay attention to your back - straighten yourself out, don't hunch over the desk. You will spend what might be an enormous amount of time on what seems to be a small problem.
