tuman.design and the town of Hawley, Massachsetts were honored by an award from the Massachusetts Municipal Association for the best civic website created for a small town in Massachusetts. The category was open to municipal government websites for towns with a population of less than 5,000. The award is for small towns, but with a population under 350, Hawley is a teeny town, truly punching above its weight in receiving…
Bill brings a great knowledge base and is a real pleasure to work with. He drills down to understand our goals with respect to our website presence and has built our site to reflect those goals. He puts good options in front of us and works to make the process easy and understandable. . . and he sticks to his timelines and budgets. - Walter Price, President
Full disclosure: the Popmaster of Crooked Stick Pops is my amazing wife, Julie Tuman, and I have an ongoing role with the company as "Chief Pop Taster for Life." It's fun to work for a company that makes everybody feel good, and it's even more fun when there's so much high-quality material to work with: interesting pop flavors that lend themselves so well to graphical treatments, stunning photographs by the talented Paul…
Since creating the original post, MSPA asked me to give their site a cosmetic refresh. I didn't change much—just inverted the site from a black background to white, then made some typography adjustments and refined a few graphic elements to balance the color change. This let the site retain its classic 60s photography flavor but made it feel lighter and more contemporary. Best of all, since the underlying WordPress architecture is so…