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Founder Julia van der Wyk has been providing website development and design services in Santa Cruz and the San Francisco Bay Area since 2004. Her favorite part of the process is “creative solutioneering”, finding ways to implement designs, integrate WordPress plugins, and build features that are user friendly and comply with accessibility and cross-platform best practices.

With expertise in Design and Development of Drupal and WordPress websites and Graphic Design, we are expanding our services to include Shopify development and administrative support, and other platforms such as Squarespace.

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Podcast Episode: Rooted in your Confidence with Samantha Kaye Harris

I recently had the opportunity to join Samantha Kaye Harris on the Rooted In Your Confidence podcast to talk about all things web design and business. But the conversation went so much deeper.

Give it a listen, especially if you’re in a season of change or growth. You might just find yourself in this story too.

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“I am glad I got to work with Julia. When my company was working on a major web migration, Julia was the point person for the web frontend for several WordPress based sites. She is experienced with large scale projects such as this and knew what to look out for and build the new frontend codebase in a scalable way. She was responsive and knew the questions to ask. I highly recommend Julia for any web needs.”

—Alice Oh, Product Management at Salesforce

“I met Julia when I took over managing the NGINX.com website. She was the full stack developer that had been supporting the site for a few years with her business partner at the time.

Not long after we started working together, her business partner retired and she pivoted to supporting the site alone. She was able to quickly ramp on the work her partner was doing and it helped ensure we didn’t run into any issues with the site.

Julia was instrumental in a few of our biggest projects. She supported creating new templates for campaigns and our virtual yearly event but the biggest project was redesigning the entire website. She helped ramp a new developer while redesigning over 25 templates, impacting over 2000 pages, updating our menu navigation, improving our mobile, and ensuring accessibility standards were met.

Julia is a fast learner, a team player, and has years of experience. Her experience allows her to also bring suggestions for improvements that will help improve your business!”

—Danielle Jones, Product Manager at F5 & Founder of Our Black Experience
Alyx Lofton, CEO of Chabot Business Solutions

“Working with Julia has been a huge relief and a blessing. There were many times I was able to unload all of my webdev/design problems burdens and know that they would be handled.”

—Alyx Lofton, CEO, Chabot Business Solutions

“We needed to update our website and called upon Julia to help facilitate and streamline the project. She recommended that we transition our platform to WordPress and, with a carefully crafted plan, guided us through the entire process. Julia provided a clear outline for each of the steps involved and a list of tasks for each of us to complete, communicating with us regularly to ensure that her vision for the project was consistent with our goals. We were able to devote the majority of our own time to the necessary content updates while Julia facilitated a smooth transition to the new platform. Julia also provided a thorough demonstration on the use of WordPress, enabling us to continue managing the new website on our own going forward.

The new website has proven to be a major upgrade from what we had before; these improvements show not only in its updated aesthetic and content, but also in its user-friendliness and ease of management. Thanks to Julia’s attentiveness and communication, we were able to navigate all of the technical aspects of this process without issue. The new website was even ready to launch ahead of schedule while meeting all of our goals! We highly recommend the Web Atrium to anyone seeking to upgrade their own web projects in the future.”

—Lydia Werthen, Board of Directors, Santa Cruz Chorale

“Our organization has been depending on Julia van der Wyk, of The Web Atrium, for over ten years to keep out website in good working order. Whether it be an operating system upgrade or solving a thorny security issue, Julia has quickly stepped in to address the problem, and at a very reasonable price. We highly recommend her services.”

—Al Weinrub, Coordinator, Local Clean Energy Alliance

“Julia’s background in design combined with her expert knowledge of WordPress played a crucial role in the successful development of a new CMS based website for XStor Medical Systems. Her ability to leverage the strengths of the WordPress platform to execute the project’s marketing and design goals was outstanding.”

—Eric Bloom, Mobile/Web Marketing Consultant
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Website Re-Design Launch Story: UC-AFT

ucaft.org is a long standing website originally built on the Drupal platform for University Council-AFT. It hosts information for chapters, individual members, contracts, news and history. Our goals for the redeisgn project were: Prioritized navigation structure for ease of use A fresh look from updated organization branding collateral Migrate from Drupal to WordPress Switch focus […]

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WordPress Web Development

Whether we are creating custom themes, building new site features or customizing the admin experience, we've got your website covered. We've got years of expertise with WordPress Web Development and Drupal web Development, and are excited to be expanding services to include Shopify and Squarespace. We'll meet you on the platform you have and go from there

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WordPress Theme Design, Website Design, and Graphic Design

Do you need to refresh your theme to match a new logo? We can help identify the look and feel that reflect your brand with website design and supporting graphics or illustration. We build WordPress Custom Themes to suit your brand. While we're at it, we can help review your site Information Architecture and get your users where they need to go with an intuitive navigation path.

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WordPress Custom Themes

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WordPress Website Technical Support

Setting up third party app integrations and workflows with WordPress plugins, implementing SEO recommendations into an existing website and keeping the WordPress core version updated with security fixes can take time away from other tasks. Offload technical support tasks to The Web Atrium and reclaim your time, effort, and peace of mind.

Pricing for WordPress website development and design support is based upon an hourly rate. For standalone projects, we will give a project estimate based on a detailed specification. For priority retainers, we reserve a customized number of hours each month for maintenance and new features on demand, which are billed in advance.

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