COLORADO • 30+ YEARS

Future-proof
your mission.

Websites and digital experiences for Colorado small businesses, nonprofits and museums.

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Now building faster and better with AI (Grok + Claude) while keeping the same care for craft.
The Cable Center/Syndeo Institute
Colorado Museums
Nonprofits & Cultural Orgs
Small Businesses
THE WORK THAT SHAPED ME

13 years at
The Cable Center/Syndeo Institute
changed everything.

In 2009 I walked into The Cable Center/Syndeo Institute in Denver and they asked if I could learn ColdFusion.

I said yes. I built their entire main website from scratch that year and stayed for 13 years as their lead web and digital person.

I quietly rescued their entire video archive

after a server hack. Those backups became the only clean copies of irreplaceable oral histories and Hall of Fame programs.

I reverse-engineered broken 2007 Flash kiosks

so visitors could still interact with exhibits, and I still bring that same archival content back online today using modern safe techniques.

I led the creation of a full VR recreation

of the entire building in Unity. You can still walk through it on a Meta Quest or via Steam, picking up artifacts and stepping into 360° video.

View the VR Archive on Steam

All of that taught me one thing:

The best digital experiences aren’t about the latest trend.
They’re about respecting the story and building something that lasts.

TODAY

30+ years of craft.
AI superpowers.

I still do everything I always did (strategic thinking, beautiful design, technical problem-solving and deep respect for your mission), except now I deliver it dramatically faster and more affordably using Grok and Claude as creative partners.
Same obsessive quality. Same personal attention. Much better economics for organizations that need it.
30+
Years building websites that outlive trends
13
Years as lead web and digital person at The Cable Center/Syndeo Institute
1
Human who actually answers the phone
WHAT I BRING

A rare combination of craft and speed.

Deep Technical Range

From ColdFusion and Flash rescue to modern static sites, easy-to-edit content tools, and AI-assisted workflows. I can work with whatever platform actually serves your organization best.

Mission-First Thinking

I don’t just build websites. I help organizations tell stories that deserve to last. Museums and nonprofits have been my focus because their work matters more than most.

AI-Accelerated Delivery

I use Grok and Claude daily as creative partners. This means faster concepts, sharper copy, better visuals, and lower costs for you without sacrificing quality or personal attention.

SELECTED WORK

Projects that mattered.

FEATURED • BRAND + APPAREL
Adaptive Waterskiing
EXPAND Beyond • Brand identity, motion + apparel
2024 to 2025

Complete visual identity and motion design for EXPAND Beyond, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit supporting the adaptive waterski and wakeboarding program at Boulder Reservoir. Created a powerful logo animation system and brand film that captures the resilience, athleticism, and joy of participants with physical disabilities. Brand assets and films support fundraising and awareness for this all-volunteer program running each summer since 1983. Also designed their yearly t-shirts and giveaways.

Back design for the EXPAND Beyond yearly t-shirt
Logo Design Motion Graphics T-Shirt Design Program Video Nonprofit
expandbeyondinc.com
MUSIC • COVER ART • VIDEO • WEB • 2026

Mike Bollig: Songs Brought Home

A music website for a Colorado singer-songwriter.

Mike Bollig wrote and recorded his original songs himself on cassette and sent them to me as MP3s. I reworked those recordings into finished releases, designed the cover art, made the music videos, and built his website, mikebollig.com, so people can press play and listen.

Cover art for Colorado Girl by Mike Bollig
Music Production Cover Art Music Video Web Design
Listen: Colorado Girl · Snowfall
mikebollig.com The story
SMALL BUSINESS • WEB + BRAND • 2026

Nomad Pet Dental

Website, logo and online booking for a mobile pet dentist in Denver.

Dr. Cooper Wahl brings dental care for cats and dogs to your door in one truck. I built the logo, the site and booking right on the page, plus an FAQ and a service-areas page so local searches find him.

Nomad Pet Dental homepage: The moving pet dentist
“It’s way cooler than I was expecting it to be.”
Dr. Cooper Wahl, Nomad Pet Dental
nomadpetdental.com The story
SMALL BUSINESS • REDESIGN • 2026

Wheeler’s Plumbing, Heating & Cooling

A redesign preview for a family HVAC company stuck on a broken WordPress site.

Rebuilt as plain, fast pages with a working contact form and free hosting, so a plugin update can’t take the business offline.

Wheeler's redesign homepage: Comfort you can trust from a family that shows up
See the preview The story
THE CABLE CENTER/SYNDEO INSTITUTE • 2014 TO TODAY

Virtual Archive Experience

Full interactive VR recreation of an entire historic building. Visitors can walk through rooms, pick up artifacts, and enter 360° video oral histories. Still used today on Meta Quest and Steam.

Screenshot from The Cable Center/Syndeo Institute Virtual Archive VR experience (2016)
Explore on Steam
OPEN SOURCE • 2026

WordCut

A free Windows app: transcribe speech with Whisper, click words to remove, export a trimmed MP4. Built with Python, pywebview, and FFmpeg. MIT licensed.

Whisper FFmpeg Windows
View project GitHub
THE CABLE CENTER/SYNDEO INSTITUTE • 2018 TO 2022

Syndeo Institute

The website for The Cable Center/Syndeo Institute. Joomla with SP Page Builder, heavily customized CSS.

Modernized the visual identity for The Cable Center/Syndeo Institute using video backgrounds and animated headers.

Screenshot of the Syndeo Institute website
Past project Visual Identity
View case study Archived site (2021)
THE CABLE CENTER/SYNDEO INSTITUTE • EVENT RENTALS

Cable Center Events

The site for renting The Cable Center/Syndeo Institute for weddings, galas and meetings. Converted from ColdFusion to WordPress, with heavily customized CSS.

I later rebuilt it again in WordPress with Divi, starting in 2018.

The Cable Center Events website as archived in February 2014
Past project WordPress
Archived site (Feb 2014)
ARCHIVAL RESCUE

Flash Kiosks & Video Archives

Reverse-engineered and modernized dozens of early-2000s interactive exhibits and rescued hundreds of hours of video after catastrophic data loss. Much of this material is now safely accessible again using contemporary web standards.

Legacy preserved
Flash kiosks Video archive
STRATEGY + REPLATFORMING

Museum & Nonprofit Websites

Complete strategic redesigns and replatforming for cultural organizations that needed to move from fragile legacy systems to something that would actually last, while keeping their unique voice intact.

WordPress • Custom • Squarespace • Simple static sites
PRICING

Clear plans. No mystery quotes.

Typical ranges for small local businesses, museums, nonprofits, and purpose-driven organizations. Final scope is confirmed after a short conversation, so you know what you’re getting before we start.

Projects
Starter Site
$2,500 to $3,500

A simple, professional site for small local businesses: the essentials done well, so customers can find you, trust you, and get in touch.

  • ~5 pages, mobile-friendly
  • Contact form & help showing up in local Google searches
  • About 2 to 3 weeks
Start small
Refresh
$3,500 to $5,000

Visual and structure polish on your current platform: key pages, mobile fixes, and help showing up in Google, so the site feels current without a full rebuild.

  • Same platform, sharper presence
  • Priority pages & mobile
  • About 2 to 4 weeks
Ask about a refresh
Most chosen
Mission Site

A full custom website

$7,000 to $10,500

Typical full project around $8,500

Strategy, design, and build for a site that lasts: a clear story, solid structure, forms, a site people with disabilities can use, and training so your team can keep it going.

  • ~8 to 15 pages, end to end
  • Forms, Google basics, handoff
  • About 5 to 8 weeks
Start with this
Rescue / Replatform

Moving an old or broken site to a new system

From $9,000

Old systems that keep breaking, a site you can’t update anymore, moves to a new platform, or “this has to last” rebuilds, scoped to your archive, risk, and content volume.

  • Migration & cleanup
  • Platform that fits the org
  • Custom quote after discovery
Discuss a rescue

On a tight budget? Let's talk. For solo folks and small businesses, I also build simple sites in the $500 to $800 range. Tell me what you need.

Monthly care

After launch, I can keep your site updated and fix things for a monthly fee.

Basic

For Starter Sites: hosting check, updates, and a quick fix when you need one.

$99/mo
Add care →
Steady

Updates, backups check, and one small content change per month.

$175/mo
Add care →
Active

A few hours of changes, seasonal pages, and small tweaks to help you show up in Google, for orgs that keep moving.

$350/mo
Add care →

Brand, motion, or bigger projects are quoted separately. Projects are half down to start and half on completion. Prefer a written audit first? That’s $300, credited toward a project if we begin within 60 days.

Pay by card or bank transfer through Stripe invoices, or by Venmo.

Not sure which fits? Contact me for a recommendation. See how it works.

INSIGHTS

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What colleagues say

People I’ve built with.

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One of the most inspired, innovative and forward thinking individuals I've ever had the pleasure of meeting or working with.

Nic van Dessel · The Cable Center/Syndeo Institute

Steve is a talented designer. He's smart, funny, inventive and basically a joy to have around.

Susan Fey · Wisconsin Public Television
LET'S WORK TOGETHER

Ready when you are.

Whether you're a one-person shop or a museum, I'd love to hear what you need. I build websites that tell your story and keep working for years.

Not sure which plan fits? See pricing, or just tell me what you’re working on.

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