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We make custom, unique, and stylish websites for customers who value intelligent content and creative solutions.

Our Team

Intelligent Design

You have control over your content and the site handles the displays automagically.

Search Engine Optimization

Our clients regularly show up on the first page of Google in their business categories. Tracking and monitoring optional.

Security

We offer both Drupal, which has the best track record for security among CMS options, and WordPress. We back up your sites hourly, daily or weekly.

Flexibility

Rearrange content, add functionalities, build custom experiences for certain users. That’s what Drupal and WordPress are all about.

Social Media

Pull in feeds on your site, use social sharing buttons to bring the audience to YOU.

Personal Attention

We always respond to our customers by end of day, and usually within an hour.

Constituent Relationships

CiviCRM integration for non-profits with memberships and event registration. Keep track of your constituents and move them up the engagement ladder!

Performance

Our private enterprise server is specially configured to give Drupal and WordPress sites maximum speed and efficiency.

Hosting and Email

We provide secure hosting for all of our clients, and email management is optional.

Happy Customers

Some of our clients have been with us for over a decade! That’s like a century in internet years.

Highest Recommendation!

Christopher Ross,
“We at historic Zion Episcopal Church have enjoyed the pleasure and privilege of employing Katharine Gates of Oculeum to revamp our website. Throughout this process, Katharine has been prompt, professional, patient, and generous with gracing the Zion community with her expertise. She has earned our highest recommendation.”

A Great Partner!

Tanya Scharton-Kersten, Kersten Compliance

“Katharine was a great partner in designing and building a website for my consulting business that reflected my personal and professional persona.  She stayed on budget and walked me through each step so that we designed something that was even better than I imagined in the beginning.  In the end it was a synergy between us in the design and output.  She patiently navigated my village of friends and family with their inputs and advice.  Katharine inspired me to make my website more targeted for reader and customer engagement.  Highly recommend.”

First page on Google!

Henry Boxer, Director, Henry Boxer Gallery

“I really can’t say how pleased I am with the splendid update. All my artists now come up on google, and the various other search engines, invariably on their first page, and this has made a huge positive impact on sales and inquiries, including many from new serious collectors, worldwide. The site is now so easy to use, it’s clean, clear, concise and most importantly, easy to negotiate – I love it! Thank you, great job!!”

Substantially increased online sales

Tony Fisher, Indigo Arts Gallery

“Oculeum transferred thousands of individual artworks, artists’ biographies, photographs and press information to my new site. I was very pleased that Katharine was able to accomplish this with a great deal of patience and a minimum of disruption to an ongoing business, and complete the work in time for the holiday season. We have maintained our previously good search results while substantially increasing our online sales.”

Thoughtful, well-designed and functional

Rebecca Leib, Content Marketing Guru

“Katharine quickly, efficiently and with great skill built a professional website for me that’s thoughtful, well-designed and functional. Not only is she a joy to work with, but she also errs on the side of over-communication, which is a good thing. No detail is too small to be overlooked, and all her suggestions are excellent. By mid-project, I was already recommending her services to colleagues.”

Great communication

Ian Lendler, Author

“Working with Katharine has been a dream. She works fast, designs sites with style, and is able to explain the tech mumbo-jumbo clearly to even a technophobe like me. Big thumbs-up.”

Donations up 25%

Mavis Cain, President, Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct Designer

“Not only have we received glowing praise for the organization and look of the website, it has increased our membership by 10%. More important, donations have gone up 25% and this is significant in a tight economy. Participation in events is up too!”

Unique, stylish and zippy

Harold Schechter, Author

“Oculeum created a unique, stylish and zippy author website. Oculeum also made sure that the site climbed to the top in search engine rankings.”

Would gladly recommend

Robert Schor, Executive Director, Blue Door Art Center

“Katharine Gates has redesigned a new website for Blue Door Art Center, combining the contents of two websites into an entirely new and exciting entity. The directors of BDAC are delighted with her work. We find her a dedicated and gifted web designer and would gladly recommend her to any new potential client.”