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Beacon Light Community Church

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Mobile First Design from scratch New custom WordPress build for Beacon Light Community Church. I’ve been trying to stick with a mobile first minimalist design to keep things simple. Beacon Light has a good Facebook presence so it was easy to go in and grab what I needed for the build. This is currently still … Read more

McCleary Septic AMP site

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Mobile First Design I had the pleasure of rebuilding a site for a longtime existing client. With the McCleary Septic site I went through and took a static php build and transferred it over into a WordPress website with a mobile first design and an AMP compatible build. Pagespeed is everything with Google Page speed … Read more

National Transmission Rebuild for Speed!

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I got to rebuild National Transmission’s website recently. I built their old site around 2014/2015 and at that time was doing static non-responsive builds. The site needed an update. It look dated and was not mobile friendly in anyway. I wanted to get the client into a WordPress site. I’ve been building them lately with … Read more

Jeremiah the Dreamer Website Rebuild

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I’ve been going back through and rebuilding some of my legacy sites to get them up to date with the current trends for portfolio pieces. I’ve spent the last five years building sites for a property development management company and haven’t had a whole lot of room for portfolio pieces. I went back and rebuilt … Read more

Digital Design Criteria Manual

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The DDCM, or Digital Design Criteria Manual is one of the many great products produced by work.shopMG for retail property developments such as malls. The DDCM is basically a password protected database of rules and regulations that it’s users can search to keep their project up to code. In general my company does these for … Read more

231WebDev 2020 Website Rebuild

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Decided to go after the 231 Web Development website rebuild right away in 2020. For the last couple of years I have run a network of WordPress sites using Divi which is an Elegant theme. Truth is the Divi builder was great for a while but it has become a bloated mess. They changed the … Read more

EDAC Drilling

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Environmental Drilling and Contracting Website Build I recently did a ground up WordPress build for EDAC located in Holland, MI. EDAC is an environmental drilling contractor that services Upper and Lower Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. This is a pretty standard job for me. Ground up build meaning that they did not have a previous … Read more

work.shop

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Lead Developer for work.shopMG LLC Property Development Vertical Market My biggest client for 2014 ended up turning into my full time employer in 2015. work.shop from great idea to grand opening… We create tools and technologies for the retail real estate industry. We have got a handful of great clients across North America. We go … Read more

Parties in the Park 2014

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Parties in the Park 2014 Website

I had the honor of getting to do the 2014 Parties in the Park website. The 2014 season has just started so the traffic is rolling in good and everything that I have heard about the website is great.

The site was built with the WordPress platform and utilizes a child theme built on top of Divi. Very cool and responsive website which looks good no matter what your device size or aspect ratio.

Click Here to Visit the Parties in the Park Website

Parties in the Park

A Great New website for a long standing music festival and community get together.

Parties in the Park is a community festival that is held every Friday night in the Summer located in Downtown’s Hackley Park. The festival features many local bands and benefits different organizations each week.

I had the honor of being asked to do their website this year and of course would never think of turning it down. I have a few different friends on the board for Parties in the Park, and as we all know networking is everything! So here we go.

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Hennessy’s Irish Pub

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Hennessy’s Irish Pub Hennessy’s Irish Pub is a great downtown Muskegon Bar and Restaurant that I had the pleasure of working with for a custom build. We had initially done a responsive dynamically built HTML5/PHP build. As time progressed I found more flexibility and ease of use for the clients with Custom WordPress Builds. Used … Read more

Lindsey Hairstylist Muskegon

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Responsive Web Development A Responsive Website is a website which will change it’s design and feel to look good whether you are viewing it on a desktop, a tablet or a phone. This is very important as so much web traffic now comes from smartphones and smart devices. LJD Hairstylist Muskegon, MI Lindsey June Dutkiewicz … Read more

Manufacturing Websites

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J&M Machine Products Great Looking Manufacturing Website I recently got to rebuild a website for a local manufacturing company called J&M Machine Products. They had an older site and wanted to clean things up and make the site leaner and sharper looking. This was a very quick build. The client knew what they wanted and … Read more

Fredricks Construction

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Fredricks Construction Website Build Details

I just did a new ground up responsive website design/build for Fredricks construction. Fredricks Construction Co specializes in roofing applications, siding, windows and insulation for residential projects since 1969. Fredricks is a great company. They heard of 231 Graphics and Web Design from another client (R&R Landscape Supply) – someone I have had a great relationship with. Always cool to pick up new clients in that way, something that as a matter of fact I am about to push to the next level. You’ll see.

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Pure Body Pilates

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Pure Body Pilates – Responsive Website Build

I had the honor of doing a new website build recently for Pure Body Pilates, which at the end of the day ended up being a very cool build and a true pleasure. I was approached by Sherry Stevens approx a week and a half back. She is a small business owner that is opening something very cool. We embarked on a journey and really made something that turned out to be so cool. Here we go…

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In Style Jeans – eCommerce

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eCommerce sites take experience and knowledge to succeed.

Getting things set right in the beginning, with your payment gateway, your tracking and analytics is key to you succeeding in the long run. From start to finish I will be there. Getting things right the first time. Training you on all aspects and giving you the tools you need to succeed. Contact jeremygradisher@gmail.com

In Style Jeans

A Great New eCommerce website for a business started right here in Western Michigan

In Style Jeans is a brand new company I am a part of with 2 partners that is selling designer jeans based in Grand Rapids and Muskegon MI. We currently have distributorships for both Silver and Buffalo Jeans. We have both men’s and women’s jeans. Our inventory is currently small, but as long as we start selling as I plan, it will grow quickly.

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H&H Lawn Service

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H and H Lawn Service and Snowplowing

A Great New website for a landscape company in North Muskegon.

H and H Lawn Service and Snowplowing. I recently got to do a ground up CMS build for a great local North Muskegon Landscape supply, lawn service and snowplowing company. The company was already branded out very well with a great logo and many advertisements for me to work with and simply needed a website to pass on the work, pricing and services they did so overall it was a straight forward and easy build.

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Sethco Lumber

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Sethco Lumber Website Development

Just got done with a new responsive build for Sethco Lumber located on Apple Ave in Muskegon, MI. Sethco Lumber has been in business for many years and recently contracted 231 Graphics to step up their web presence, and you know that we where up to the task.

I have went back and forth on how to approach these jobs. I am back in the zone where I think that utilizing a CMS is always the way to go. The clients always like a certain amount of control, and I am at the point with my skill level that there is literally no limitations when it comes to what I need to do here.

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TriPort Challenge – Festival and Tournament Sites

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Fishing Tournament Website

Fishing or tournament websites – done annually starting at $500

Muskegon Tri-Port Challenge is a fishing event that I have covered and built sites for for a couple of years now. The Tri-Port Challenge is a 3 port fishing tournament that meets up at the end in Muskegon for weigh out and prizes. Ladies and Kids at $100 for Friday, AM being $175, PRO at $450, a Big Fish entry fee of $20. The event hasn’t changed, widely successful since the beginning, there is truly no need to.

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X Cycle Trim

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X Cycle Trim – Fully responsive ecommerce website

X Cycle Trim has been a long standing client and I recently got to do a rebuild for them. Fully responsive ecommerce website. I also originally did the branding for this company ie I did the main logo.

It is a great looking site and quite a money maker. The people who are coming here and finding the site are getting exactly what they are looking for which is always the goal. The conversion rate for this site is extremely high.

Visit www.xcycletrim.com website today!

X Cycle Trim is an aftermarket bagger accessories website.

X Cycle Trim a.k.a. X-Trim is an aftermarket accessories dealer from Muskegon, MI. I built the website from scratch in early 2011 using html and php. X-Trim is an aftermarket fairing and windshield trim. It is better than the stock trim the comes on Harley-Davidson motorcycles. The original trim always cracks apart and brakes, and this company found a very profitable niche market with the best replacement trim on the market.

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J&M Machine Products

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J&M Machine Products – Manufacturing Website

I recently got to do a ground up PHP and HTML5 build for a local manufacturer called J&M Machine located in Muskegon, MI. J&M is a great company that has been in business machining for over 60 years. They manufacture many products related the big engine parts, recreational vehicle parts, military and aerospace applications, big industrial applications and more.

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Bellacino’s

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Bellacino’s Muskegon

A Great New website for a Pizza and Grinder company in North Muskegon.

Bellacino’s Pizza and Grinders Muskegon, MI. Bellacino’s is a great responsive build I just got to do using HTML5 with some CSS media queries, and a whole lot of PHP. Responsive sites are my new thing. A great selling point for 231 Graphics as there are not many people around that are doing them, and they truly are the future of web design and development, which puts us on the cutting edge.

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R&R Landscape Supply

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R&R Landscape Supply – Website Set Up

We have went back and forth from WordPress to dynamic HTML5/PHP builds. Currently we are running the latter with a great looking easy to navigate website.

R&R Landscape Supply in Muskegon, MI

Mulch, Stone and Snowplowing in Muskegon

I recently got to build a website for R&R Landscape Supply. They had an existing website at www.rrmulch.com, and had recently bought www.rrlandscapesupply.com. The RR Mulch website ranks pretty well for a lot of different search strings revolving around the landscape supply industry so we decided to leave the content there, and build a fresh site under the RR Landscape Supply domain.

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Skeetown Tavern – Bar Website

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Skeetown Tavern (Formerly Landmark Bar)

A Great New website for a new bar in Muskegon.

Skeetown Tavern is a new bar located at 1308 W. Sherman Blvd, Muskegon, Michigan 49441 and is the replacement for the old Landmark Bar. Skee Town Tavern will go on with a lot of what you have previously known with the Landmark such as being Biker Friendly and having live music every Friday and Saturday night.

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Waves of Hope MI

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Waves of Hope Michigan

A Great New Non-Profit Based In Muskegon, MI

Waves of Hope Michigan is a new non profit organization that is located in Muskegon. The purpose of Waves of Hope is to cover the cost of the Lake Express tickets for patients and their families traveling to distant medical facilities for treatment of diseases. Their goal is to take part of the financial stress off of the patient in hopes that they can instead focus their energy on improving their health and quality of life.

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All About Entertainment

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All About Entertainment

Ground up build for a local party inflatable rental place with a whole lot of options.

All About Entertainment is a rental company based in Western Michigan. They can provide your event, picnic or party with some amazing entertainment. They specialize in inflatable rentals, as well as rock climbing walls, mechanical bull rentals and more. From carnival games, to spray on tattoos, what ever you need for your next party, function or more they can provide.

We started this as a SEO job but as the conversation progressed ended up heading it in a totally different direction. The client ended up wanting to do a content management system that they could edit on their own, which is always easy to pull off, and we hit the ground running.

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Wells Index Manufacturing Website

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Wells-Index

Wells-Index Milling Machines by A&D Machinery located in Muskegon, MI USA

Wells-Index has produced manual and CNC knee type milling machines for over 70 years in Muskegon with rugged dependability for your milling, drilling, and boring needs. I recently had the honor of re-doing their website, basically ground up static building a HTML5 and PHP website from scratch, adding a ton of content and a few new features.

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Muskegon Rockstock – Branding and Music Festival Website

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Muskegon Rockstock – Logos and Web Design

An annual music festival held in Muskegon MI

I’ll start this out with a little story. Approx 6 years back or so I was still making music. I heard about a local music festival that was being started that would be held in Hackley Park. They where calling it Rockstock and there was a contest to design the logo. I went right after it. I felt like I had a pretty good idea. I knew black and white would be the best bet as it is cost effective for the t-shirt designs. I also knew they needed a rock look, which is why I decided to utilize a Les Paul guitar. The coolest looking and best playing guitar for something like 50 years.

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How To Set-Up WordPress

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The following will be an in-depth article on how to set-up a WordPress Site. There are a few things that you really will need. Really you need a hosting service and a domain to set it up under, beyond that you are golden. I am going to give you a step by step, here goes…

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Muskegon Biker

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Muskegon Biker Motorcycle Events Calendar

WordPress Custom Post Type for Events Calendar

Muskegon Biker is a long standing website that I own that overall is an event calendar for the Muskegon, MI area. Big nights and motorcycle related events are the key features of this website.

Did a great looking redesign for the site with some custom post types for the new upgraded event calendar which is very user friendly and easy to maintain.

Muskegon Biker is a Motorcycle Related Events Calendar and News Site

Muskegon Biker is a website I started in the summer of 2010. Set up as a motorcycle related calendar and and news article site, muskegonbiker.com is the best site in Muskegon to find biker rallies and motorcycle runs. This site has enjoyed great success with tens of thousands of page views per month of biker’s from right in Western Michigan.

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Responsive Web Design Blog

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231 Graphics New Blog features Responsive HTML5, CSS3, PHP and Javascript

A couple of months back I went through the 231 Graphics site and did a full on re-design to accommodate all of the different devices such as desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones. Web developers nowadays have to think clearly about the way their sites will look no matter what the screen resolution or aspect ratio.

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Hennessy’s Irish Pub

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New Responsive Website for Hennessy’s Pub in Muskegon, MI

I recently got to build a great new responsive website for Hennessy’s Irish Pub and Restaurant located at 885 Jefferson Street in downtown Muskegon, MI. For those that do not know a Responsive Website refers to a website that changes design wise according to the size of your browser. The reason that is important has to do with the average user breakdowns which are in this day and age spread pretty evenly between normal desktop computers, laptops with smaller screens, tablets with even smaller screens and mobile devices which very dramatically in screen size. A true responsive site will look good on each of these, with different aspect ratios as this site does.

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D bar D Ranch Michigan

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D Bar D Ranch Michigan

D Bar D Ranch Michigan is a horseback riding campground located in Chase, MI and one of my newest clients. When I first spoke with Don from D bar D the Ranch was going through a transition and he was ready for a change. They were utilizing a Joomla site that they where not very happy with as it had a lack of user ease and I figured that I had a good way to get him in a better position.

We decided to go with a WordPress CMS, which to many of you is no surprise as I feel these are the easiest to use for most clients. The overall useability and the SEO friendliness of these sites is untouchable. As well as the availability of a bunch of great plug ins makes these website builds a dream.

With D bar D Ranch being a campground what we where needing more than anything was two things. A great event calendar and a way for his clients to be able to book their campsites online. The event calendar was a breeze. There are many options out there. We went with a plug in called Event Calendar which had both a great sidebar widget and an easy to use full page calendar. Piece of cake.

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Luxury Michigan Home

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The Lodge 2665 Short Rd. Lupton, MI 48635

A site built around a luxury property being sold by Cabela’s Trophy Properties and Trophy Class Real Estate

I recently got to build a website for Cabela’s Trophy Properties and Trophy Class Real Estate for a luxury property being sold in Mid Northern, MI. “The Lodge” is located at 2665 Short Rd. Lupton, MI 48635 and is 893 acres of pure beauty. Amazing landscapes, multiple buildings and observation shelters.

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Muskegon Tri-Port Challenge

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Muskegon Tri-Port Challenge

A Muskegon, Whitehall and Grand Haven fishing tournament

I am in the process of building a website for the Tri-Port Challenge. The Tri-Port Challenge is a fishing tournament that takes place in Muskegon, but is unique in the sense that you can start out of ports located in Muskegon, Whitehall and Grand Haven. This tournament has taken place before, but until I was involved did not have a website or an existing logo, so I got to have some fun with this one.

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Armed Forces Salmon Assault

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Armed Forces Salmon Assault in Muskegon, MI

Annual Fishing Tournament – Web and Logo Design

Just got done with a cool Logo design and ground up static build for The Armed Forces Salmon Assault fishing tournament put on by the Muskegon Charter Boat Association. The 2nd annual event will take place on May 19, 2012, on Lake Michigan. The MCBA and the Salmon Assault board recently allowed me the honor of being a part of something special for our city.

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Muskegon Recreation Club

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Muskegon Recreation Club is the Oldest Social Club in Muskegon

I started www.muskegonrecclub.com in late 2010 and had the honor of building their website from the ground up. The site is built with a combination of PHP and HTML, it has a very sleek website design with clean lines and a great use of contrasting colors. Every month the board of the club puts out a newsletter called the Tattler, which is of course represented on the website. There are links on every page of the website to the club’s Facebook page.

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McCleary Septic Services

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McCleary Septic Service of Muskegon, MI

I recently did a ground up build of McCleary Septic Service, Inc‘s website. This business has been very successful for over 20 years and has not had a website for the last few years. We started off with a clean looking 5 page layout that gives all of the pertinent information for the business along with an easy way to contact them, linked this main website to their Google business page which we needed to claim and add information too, and also built a Facebook fan page.

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Novak Snurfboard

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Novak Snurfboard Muskegon based Snow Surfing Accessories

I recently did a redesign of Novak Snurfboard LLC’s website. Novak Snurfboards are made right hear in Muskegon. They are made of a unbreakable space glass which will withstand the coldest of temperatures while still maintaining their flexible characteristics. I met Bob Novak recently through a mutual friend and was very happy to take on a re-design of his site. The site was up and running, was structured pretty well. It really just needed more pictures showing of the product and Some graphics added in the header area.

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Website Design Muskegon

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Website Design Muskegon – 231 Graphics website design blog

Website Design Muskegon is a website design blog that I started in the first week of 2012. I started this site for a few different reasons. First off I thought it was really important to show my web design skills using content management systems. This is a wordpress site, utilizing a free skin (Boldy) which is very simple, yet has all of the features needed to create a great web design blog. As you can see by the look of the site, it’s very clean looking with some great social integration.

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