Golden Mean Web Design

Our Work

Whether you have an exist­ing site you’d like to make a lit­tle bit bet­ter; or you’d like us to launch your new site for your small busi­ness, art project, band, musi­cal event, or per­sonal project, we’d be happy to help.

Some exam­ples of our recent work. Note that all designs are sub­ject to change.

South­west Para­nor­mal Inves­ti­ga­tion and Research Team of Pennsylvania

SPIRT of PA is an eight year old para­nor­mal inves­ti­ga­tions group located in Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia. In a crowded field of often embarass­ing sites, Mark decided to make some­thing clean, sim­ple, and easy to use and understand.

Mark installed Word­press, mod­i­fied the cod­ing for the HTML and CSS, adjusted the SPIRT logo to match the site’s color scheme, and edu­cated SPIRT founder Rebecca Lynch in the use of Word­press. Mark also assisted by installing a data­base tool for record­ing para­nor­mal investigations.

(Note: a great thanks to Doug Bowman’s book Bul­let­proof Web Design for the basic frame­work for the two col­umn design.)

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Sub­ver­sive Zone

Port­land, Oregon’s Sub­ver­sive Zone is an inno­v­a­tive night of music that has played on and off again for the last three years. For their sec­ond incar­na­tion they became more seri­ous about their mar­ket­ing. At the time of Sub­ver­sive Zone’s relaunch in 2007, Myspace was a key place to be for the Port­land music scene. Unfor­tu­nately Myspace “design” was a mis­ery of noisy, loud third-party tem­plates or a bor­ing stan­dard default blue.

Work­ing with and exist­ing flier design by Adam Michaud of New World Indus­tries, Mark and Cindi adapted the flier’s col­ors and logo, clear­ing out Myspace cruft and result­ing in a cleaner, hap­pier design.

(Note: this work pre­dates Myspace rolling out CSS-based tem­plates. Orig­i­nal work on mak­ing a designer-friendly Myspace tem­plate was by Mike David­son, to whom we remain for­ever grateful.)

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Mark Marshe

A native of Ore­gon, Mark is respon­si­ble for cod­ing all HTML and CSS. He also takes Cindi’s graphic work and inter­grates it with the design of the site. He has been an ama­teur web designer for over a decade and has had years man­ag­ing projects and hit­ting dead­lines as a super­vi­sor in the call cen­ter industry.

Cindi Whittaker

Orig­i­nally from the other Port­land (Maine), Cindi relo­cated to Ore­gon in 1996. Cindi is respon­si­ble for fig­ur­ing out what our clients want and get­ting them the design they need. She is also Golden Mean’s Pho­to­shop jockey. Cindi has spent years in tele­phone cus­tomer ser­vice and is best known as an active mem­ber of Port­land, Oregon’s music scene, help­ing to orga­nize Sub­ver­sive Zone and coor­di­nat­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tion with var­i­ous performers.

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