Hello there!

My name is Shawn. I am a web designer, a photographer, a WordPress evangelist, a social media guru, and sometimes a writer. I live in North East Ohio between the great cities of Cleveland and Akron. My passion is creating gorgeous web sites that are human friendly, standards compliant and easy to find. I am always on the look out for new projects, so please contact me if you are interested in my services!

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services

  • Beautiful Web Design
  • WordPress Theme Design
  • Front End Development
  • Social Media Integration
  • Brand/Identity Design
  • Custom Photography

advantages

  • Clean Hand Written Code
  • 100% Standards Compliant Code
  • 504 Compliant
  • Emphasis on accessibility
  • Easy to work with

team

Crooked River Creative is a design agency that a couple friends and I started. If you use us for your next project, you will get the rock star abilities of many, not just myself.

themes

blankSlate Theme
A blank canvas is the perfect way to start any new design! Updated to be compatible with WordPress 3.1 and free to download.

recently written

blankSlate3! The Stripped Down Starter Theme for WordPress 3.0

Update 3-15-2011: The blankSlate Theme has been updated to better support WordPress 3.1. Clicking the download link below will get you the newest version of the blankSlate theme. A couple of things to note with this version. First, I left many of the div tags in the loop files. I did this because quite honestly I was tired of adding them back in. Second, my daughter is teething and I have 4 themes to build that required the use of…

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