Masuga Design, LLC

We like to check our work to make sure your work can be seen by as many people as possible in the way it was meant to be seen. This means writing lean, accessible, standards-compliant HTML and CSS. Do you have to know what that means? No. But we have to, and our job is to use it under the hood of your site to keep it humming along like the well-oiled machine it is.

We eat our own dogfood, meaning Masuga Design runs on ExpressionEngine, and we think EE is pretty good tasting dogfood. Or something like that. If you need to manage your content, you came to the right place. If you're already set on using ExpressionEngine, then you score brownie points with us.

Imagine logging into an administrative control panel at your leisure to make a small text change yourself - rather than contacting us to make the change for you. And forget the small changes - what about being able to handle the maintenance of whole sections of your own content - including images, PDF and Word files, press releases, FAQ's, job postings, maps...basically anything you need to manage. If that sounds like a good idea to you, contact us to discuss using ExpressionEngine for your site.

What a mouthful. All this means is that we can make your site do some of those cool things you've seen other sites do, enhancing your users' experience. Nerd Alert: If you're not interested in geeky details, just trust us that jQuery is cool and move on to the next point. We use the jQuery Javascript library to help us rapidly add the extra functionality to your site and we do it unobtrusively, meaning that if someone doesn't have Javascript on or available, your site should still work, no harm, no foul.

We're not limited to the jQuery library - we can and will use Prototype/scrip.aculo.us, mootools, or Yahoo! User Interface widgets when we have to, but for getting it done quickly and having fun with it, we like jQuery.

We've been known to be up at 1 a.m. on a Friday night trying to solve things that probably only matter to us, and rationalizing it by saying "I know what I'm figuring out will come in handy at some point..." Will that "some point" be your project?

Pixel-level attention to detail is what we are about. Ease of use for you and your visitors is what we're about.

And we're not above taking the extra time to create a geeky in-joke using Clarus the Dogcow, a magnifying glass, and the word "Moof!" in the graphic accompanying this "attention to detail" section*.

*Check out Clarus the DogCow & Moof! at Wikipedia

We like to think we know what we're doing. (We've been told as much, so who are we to argue?) We don't actively advertise, so if you found this page, you very likely might have heard about us from someone you know. What might you have heard? Maybe things such as:

"Throughout the entire process, I remained incredibly impressed at his obvious expertise in ExpressionEngine and his ability to logically and creatively implement the multitude of features we were building into the site. During the development phase Ryan repeatedly proved himself to be one of the most reliable and conscientious developers I've ever dealt with. Ryan proved to have a great deal of integrity, was incredibly reliable and always a pleasure to work with." - Valerie Conners, Web Producer, Travel Channel/World Hum

"Ryan was hired by our company to manage web development efforts for a high-profile client. He is reliable, flexible, an expert in his field, and most importantly he is a pleasure to work with. Ryan always managed to accommodate our most challenging requests. I highly recommend Masuga Design for any of your web development projects!" - Katie Vinson, Interactive Project Manager, GSI Commerce

"Some people are good graphic designers, and some people are web technicians. Ryan excels in both worlds. He has formal education as a fine artist, and it shows in the graphic sensibility of his web sites. Too bad there's only one him - if you hire him once, you will be standing in line to hire him again and again." - Dave Burgess, Principal, Great Lakes Scrip Center

"Ryan is one of those people that is so passionate about what they do, that it's borderline obsession. He is easy to work with and will stop at nothing to solve a problem." - Jason Clewell, Art Director/Web Developer, Concentric Marketing

Quotes taken from LinkedIn.com. View Ryan Masuga's LinkedIn profile.

We will do some things for you that other places don't even know how to do, let alone know how to provide you with, such as screencasts. Now that you have all this ExpressionEngine content management power, are you afraid to go in and touch your content because you forget what goes where and what does what? Login to your Control Panel and view a screencast on how to add that job posting, or additional product, or new press release with related PDF file - or whatever update is unique to your site.

We will do what it takes to make you feel comfortable and in control, because who has time to worry about how the website will stay current with up-to-date content? If we can make your life is easier, we like our job better, and that about sums it up, we think.

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