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L'Autre Côté (The Other Side) Dean Cornwell, 1918

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Banana Bread Chocolate Chip Cookies

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you ever click on a website and go ew? same.

There’s something weirdly intimate about visiting a website. Like, if it looks off, too slow, too cluttered, or too 2011. You just know you’re not sticking around. The tabs get closed, the brand gets forgotten, and that’s that.

Which is wild, because some businesses still think their site doesn’t matter that much. Like your homepage isn’t literally the first impression of your entire brand.

I’m not a developer. I’m not a designer. But I am a person with eyes and expectations and honestly, that’s enough to spot the difference between a website that was DIY’d on a weekend and one that actually gives a damn.

some things i’ve noticed:

If the site’s taking more than 3 seconds to load? I’m out.

If I have to search for the contact info like it’s an Easter egg? Nope.

If I can’t tell what the company does within 5 seconds? Yeah, bye.

And don’t even get me started on mobile layouts that clearly weren’t tested. I shouldn’t have to zoom in and play Tetris just to read your menu.

You don’t need some giant agency in New York or a Silicon Valley budget. I ended up stumbling across Hierographx, a web design company, based in Michigan (Midland and Saginaw, if that means anything to you) and these people get it.

They don’t just slap pretty colors on a screen and call it “branding.” They care about their work. Like, can a real human use your site and actually do the thing you want them to do? Book? Buy? Call? That’s the bar.

And they work with all kinds of businesses, not just tech bros or eComm giants. If you’re a small biz and your site is either

 stuck in 2013

made by your cousin’s friend who “kinda knows WordPress”

Then yeah, it might be time to level up…

Anyway. Just here to say you deserve a website that actually works. Because people are judging you by your digital cover, whether you like it or not.

Check out Hierographx if you’re ready to not be embarrassed by your URL.

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Perhaps the World Ends Here, Joy Harjo

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sometimes i think i’m just a collection of half-played playlists and things i meant to text people back

like i’ll open my phone and there’s 4 drafts of messages i never sent, 2 group chats i forgot to check, and a song i added to a queue that’s just been sitting there for three days. and somehow that feels like an accurate reflection of where i’m at emotionally

anyway. vibes are weird. hope you’re drinking water.

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Apple Pie Brioche Donuts

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“My entire life can be described in one sentence: It didn’t go as planned, and that’s okay.”

— Rachel Wolchin

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Life is a gift, regardless of where we come from or what's behind the curtain. We're all experiencing this beautiful, messy, amazing thing called life.((hugs))

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Isolation is not safety, it is death. If no one knows you're alive, you aren't.

Neil Hilborn

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“you will never be too much for someone who can’t get enough of you”

— Unknown

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I want to be myself again. I want to be six. I want to stop knowing everything I know.

Catherynne M. Valente