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Welcome to where possibilities start.

"Delivering high end agency work on a small business budget, that's what he does."

Jamey McCurry, Co-Owner | CEO
All Sorts Mailling
Anyone Know A Guy is the freelance brand that I run offering personalized one-on-one web development and design to small and medium businesses and not-for-profits that need a polished cohesive brand but simply can't afford going to a full agency. I am the option they have to bypass the cookie cutter, template driven cottage businesses where everyone looks the same.
Everything produced by Anyone Know A Guy is custom work, no templates, nothing "canned" or "off-the-shelf". Everything starts with a serious and in-depth view into the business or origination, outlining and defining your goals. From there it is intensive process to generate a lasting and remembered representation of you, your product, your service, your business.

Why Anyone Know A Guy?

Creative

Innovative design and imaging to push your brand past the passive offerings of standard window dressing from most small business designers and developers. Creating something that is unique to your brand.

Solid Design

Site designs are build using UI and UX established standards for usability, navigation and engagement. This provides your site visitors an easy website to work through without frustrations of not finding what they need.

Security

Site security is paramount. Every site is developed as a LAMP project using established code bases and library such as HTML5, CSS3, PHP, MySql, jQuery and Ajax*
*"what's my name?"
"Francis."
- Deadpool

Tradeshows

If you are attending industry tradeshows or exhibiting I can offer detailed assistance in designing and planning everything from the most basic of show setups to the most elaborate 20x20, 20x40 and larger. In the world of tradeshows experience counts, 400+ shows over 25 years, that's a lot of experience.

eCommerce PCI

If your business takes credit cards online and you are wondering about how yearly changes in PCI affect you I offer consulting services to make sure that you are handling card data properly and securely for your business.
click here for information regarding eCommerce restrictions.

Cost Effective

For small and even medium size businesses going to a full agency can cause sticker shock and is most times way out of reach for what you are being offered. In the world of non-profits this can be a huge road block. I can get you past this with quality agency level work at a much lower cost.

Photography

As part of the design service comes with it an amount of custom photography and images from my 250K image stock library. I can make sure that the message is supported by eye catching and interesting images. Here once more I can save you money over buying images.

Communication

I can always be reached by phone, text, or email if you have questions about starting a project or how things are going with your project. I am always available when I am on your project ... or if its 2am and you need to know the flight speed of a laden African Swallow.

Updates & Enhancements

Since everything is hand coded (I don't use CMS packages just for security reasons) after go live, I provide 1 year of free updates^ and enhancements. Why only a year? Most sites really need a refresh of content and in the design about every 12 months. So after a year, its time to visit the make over.
^Updates are free for standard text, graphics or image changes to an existing page.

Services

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

Jeff Bezos
Branding is the process involved in creating a unique name and image for a product in the consumers' mind, mainly through advertising campaigns with a consistent theme. Branding aims to establish a significant and differentiated presence in the market that attracts and retains loyal customers.
What goes into establishing a great brand for a small business? It takes research, understanding what sets you apart from your competitors. Knowing who your target audience is and how they perceive the services & product your offering.

It doesn't’t matter how many times I have to click, as long as each click is a mindless, unambiguous choice.

Steve Krug
Web design is a process of conceptualizing, planning, and building a collection of electronic files that determine the layout, colors, text styles, structure, graphics, images, and use of interactive features that deliver pages to your site visitors.
And its not as easy as it sounds. Your content has to be meaningful, it has to be relate-able to the people that visit your site. It needs to be brief and direct. Visuals such as graphics, photos even the style of font used should support the message and the information being provided.

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores. If the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always another.

Chip Kidd
Graphic design is art with a purpose. It involves a creative and systematic plan to solve a problem or achieve certain objectives, with the use of images, symbols or even words. It is visual communication and the aesthetic expression of concepts and ideas using various graphic elements and tools. Good communication skills are an essential part of the designer’s toolkit.
Making designs that look great on the page is nice, but one of the most important parts of the graphic design process happens even before putting pen to paper — listening to and interpreting what the client needs. Once this is established we find the best way to visually communicate your message to your target audience and impact them in a positive way.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Albert Einstein
Unlike web design, which creates a beautiful and easy to use website, web development is considered the back-end of the website. It is what makes the website function. Web development focuses on how the website works and how customers are able to navigate through and interact with it. Web development can range from developing the simplest static single page of plain text
to the most complex web-based Internet applications, electronic businesses, or social network services. An example of this would be - hey.anyoneknowaguy.com, a business directory site. This is design and development combined, easy to use navigation and interface with database driven back end.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

Martin Parr
What is photography? One place to look for the answer is a dictionary. The online version of the Oxford English Dictionary describes photography as 'the art or practice of taking and processing photographs'. - That's a rather dry definition. The more decades I do this, the more I realize everything in photography comes down to one word: vision. Call it vision, imagination, or seeing;
it all comes down to the same thing: the ability to envision a final result in your mind's eye, and then to make it so with your tools at hand. It's never been about the gear. It's always been about seeing something, knowing how you want it to look, and making it so. Making it so is the easy part; seeing it in the first place is what makes a photographer. Powers of observation are everything. Snapping a camera is trivial.

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