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When to use a website cookie policy seems to be one of the areas we get questions about fairly often when building a new website. Over the past few years, our data, personal privacy, and the information footprint we leave as we move across the internet have become of supreme …

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Why WordPress?

When deciding what you need for a website, WordPress is often thrown into the discussion as a possible option for powering your site. But what is WordPress? What is a CMS? And when would I consider WordPress as an option for my website?

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2020 was a dumpster fire the world over. This article goes over a few of our reflections during a year in what seemed to be a parallel universe.

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Learning to Rise Up

Collaboration is a great way to pull off some big things. When the collab goes well it is an amazing learning experience for everyone involved.

The Time is Now Illustration

The news has been fairly grim of late. It’s true. COVID-19 has changed the world scene in a matter of months and businesses are taking a real hit as a result of the worldwide pandemic. Whether this lasts for 3 weeks or 3 months, businesses around the world are being forced to evolve in unexpected ways in order to keep their doors open.

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What makes web design good is a deep conversation. There’s literally dozens of considerations that go into building beautiful, performant websites.

What is HTTPS and SSL

Many people know that when you go to a website, the URL will usually begin with either an “http://” or “https://” before the actual domain name. Yet, most people will not know what the differences between those two acronyms are.

About shop

We are Shop, a web design and graphic design studio based in Vancouver, WA. We’re a small group of designers, developers, writers, and makers who have banded together with the goal of creating beautiful design.