Evolutionize
Bonjour! ~ Konnichiwa! ~ ¡Hola! ~ Howdy!
Welcome! I'm Jamie Sutton. Resident robot Shopify samurai. You may have seen me around just a little. I build web sites. More specifically I build e-commerce web sites, almost exclusively on the amazingly beautiful Ruby based platform Shopify.
What the devil does that mean for you? It means you have a friend on the inside of nerd-dom. I understand "geek speak" but will never ever use it on a client (unless they ask me to). Leave all that code jibber jabber mumbo jumbo to me. That's what I'm here for. I translate your ideas onto the screen. Your job is making whatever you make, doing whatever service you do. My job is to make a shop that, with a little bit of training from me you can easily run yourself without a degree from MIT.
I'm a self trained former (and present) fine arts/English lit guy and illustrator. So I've pulled myself up by the bootstraps when it comes to all this web and social media stuff. I've been making Shopify sites for 6+ years now and know the system inside and out. I work well with others and have a few friendly & amazing partners that I work with from time to time as well. I'm rabid for information on anything I'm interested in, which means I keep up to date with the latest and greatest web tech so that I can stay on top of my game.
I'm a super-nice friendly, and helpful guy and ♥ what I do. If you need something then get in touch and we can make a beautiful site together. Whether you just want to improve your Shopify store or create one from scratch look no further.
Mad Skillz
- Custom Shopify Web Design
- CSS + HTML5 + jQuery + Shopify
- Shopify Instruction (How to run your shop)
- Shopify Theme Expansion & Customization
- Graphic Design + Illustration (of course!)
- Logo + Packaging & Print Design
- Custom UI and jQuery
- Great Conversationalist!
Organize
Salut! ~ Xin chào! ~ Góðan dag! ~ Ciào!
I'm Robyn Sutton! Content sherpa with mad organizational skillz. I have a BA in Media Arts and a Minor in English from USC. Over ten years in the corporate arena and tired of boxing, I was ready to use my acquired knowledge and apply to something I love, Shopify eCommerce! The diversity of clients we work with, make each day an adventure. Learning the aspects of our client's business, building a strategy and creating solutions to turn their dream into reality is what we do best!
Planning, prepping and content management are my specialties. I coordinate with clients on everything from proposals to blog articles. Questions about photography or need high quality images? Let's Chat.
We love Green Printing! We can produce highly visual graphic designs and reproduction quality artwork for advertising and marketing materials to boost your business! Questions? Take your biz to the next level! Contact me!
Mad Skillz
- Shopify Store Planning/Administration
- SEO Keyword Scoping
- Shopify Instruction (How to run your shop)
- Layout and Printing
- Shopify Products Set-up
- Organizer Extraordinaire
- Work-a-holic!
A Few Shopify Projects
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Alaskan King Crab Co.
alaskankingcrab.com
We were excited when Chris Mettler of Iron Horse Holdings first contacted us on this project. Who wouldn't be?!?! We ♥ crab legs! Custom designed textures, complex masked design components, asset acquisition (how amazing is that home page image?), custom UI, photography. Chris loved the site and we loved the crab he sent us to photograph and (burp) enjoy :) -
Wellbox
yourwellbox.com
Julia Poliadis at Wellbox and their designer Jenny were simply great to work with. After getting Jenny's initial comps we suggested a few changes to the mock-ups to get the Shopify implementation to fit in a bit better with their budget and it was smooth sailing from there. Jenny did a great job and to be modest we think we did too. Have a look! And if you have any cellulite, try one out. -
The Southern Pantry
thesouthernpantry.com
Ah Devita, one heck of a gourmand. Her curated Southern goodies are the bee's knees. Devita had a great idea of what she was looking for and loved our work with another culinary genius, Carrie, of Callie's Biscuits fame, so it was a match made in foodie heaven, and heck we're from the South! Send some Southern yummy tummy love, check out The Southern Pantry now. -
Gloucester Goods
gloucestergoods.com
Gloucester Goods features locally produced goods by brilliant artisans in Gloucester, MA. Lily is super-talented and wonderful to work with! Her hand painted lobster buoys are funky, bright and a great addition to any porch! Recycled Sailcloth pillows? Cool. Oh, did we mention Lily was nominated for the 3rd Annual Shorty Award, the best of Twitter. Her tweets are always a treat and make you :) -
Callie's Charleston Biscuits
calliesbiscuits.com
I've known Callie for about 12 years now & have experienced her phenomenal catering prowess first hand. When Carrie (her daughter & awesome kitchen ninja herself) and Callie came to me to design their logo, product packaging, & website I was honored. The best biscuits on earth needed a website good enough to let you almost taste them. Biscuits from heaven. -
Brooklyn Slate Company
brooklynslate.com
When Brooklyn Slate's Sean Tice sent me his comp and HTML for the Brooklyn Slate Shopify site, I knew he was going to be a great person to work with. This site is amazing!! Sean helped us with perfecting his vision every step of the way. If you love food as much as we do, then do yourself a favor and grab some of their killer cheese boards now. Follow them on Twitter! -
Archerfish
myarcherfish.com
This product is space age! What other camera can look at events and then email you only when something looks amiss? None that I know of. Recently we completely re-did the home page (filled with sweet CSS3 goodness now), re-wrote the scripting and added functions for partner sellers. Stay tuned for something new from this amazing tech company very soon. -
Everyday Genius Institute
everydaygeniusinstitue.com
Get into the mind of a genius! Taryn Voget has a great idea, find people who are singularly outstanding in their field and pick their brain for the secrets of their success. She came to us and had very specific ideas on the type of site she was looking for. We made something fun and intelligently stylish with some special scripting to make things easy for her to manage her store on the backend. -
Boat Safe Heaters
boatsafeheaters.com
Boat engine heaters and "stylish" aren't usually the first two things one would put together, but hey, it worked. This site was unique in many ways with loads of content and useful information. Tim and Andy are great guys and provided everything to make for a smooth e-commerce project. Great branding always helps and they know their stuff. -
Niccolobella
niccolobella.com
NiccoloBella is one first class act. When purchasing an engagement or wedding ring social and environmental impact aren't really on your mind, but maybe should be. NiccoloBella promotes mining and polishing from community cooperatives that give direct benefit to the communities involved. Conflict-free diamonds feed your karma with good energy. -
Art Letter Prints
artletterprints.com
Everyone wants a special gift. Anyone can buy a hunk of thoughtless consumer plastic at the mall. Photographer extraordinaire Mark Stein see's things. No, not dead people... letters. He sees them where mere mortals wouldn't even notice. This is cool. So cool that on his site you can make an art piece with any combination of them you like. Cutting edge Shopify at work here. -
Reagan Bronze
reaganbronze.com
35k + FB Fans! Many have fond memories of that fabled time called the "good old days". Some might say there is a glimpse of it on this Shopify site. Warm recollections of the Berlin Wall coming down at a time when Margaret Thatcher was a household name, even in America. This single serving site has a nice commemorative version bronze of Ronnie that was once in the oval office. -
Tonserio
tonserio.com
Dawn Tonsor, founder of Tonserio and creator of Divinity, wants all women to feel comfortable as well as beautiful. Tonserio's exclusive lingerie required a site able to feature Color, Size and Quantity drop downs, a color switch feature, as the user selects alternate colors. A password protected surgeon's page was also created with links to protected products. -
NextAlarm
nextalarm.com
Next Alarm required a solution for their four partner sites that was easy to update and customize branding on a site by site basis. We created a customized theme with advanced theme settings to allow them to quickly skin each affiliate site. Next Alarm's new, improved main site is in the works! -
Duchess Clothier
duchessclothier.com
What can we say?... The Duchess ROCKS! Making funky stylish suits for the martini swilling hipster crowd can really take it out of a Duchess. Seyta needed a way for clients to build a custom suit online, picking fabrics (inside and out!), buttons and even monograms. We made it and made it easy for her to manage on a daily basis. Nice! -
The West Is Dead
thewestisdead.com
We don't know who is taking all these insanely great images here but they are over the top! We helped port this over to shopify for designer extraordinaire Will Cheng and made a snazzy landing page and the lookbook gallery page add-on to help round out the total feel, adding a ton of theme settings in the process to make running the shop a breeze. -
Ancestorville
ancestorville.com
Where do you begin when you have over 5000 genealogy items, photos, and ephemera to organize and present? With us of course! Ancestorville has a huge fan base of over 20,000 on facebook and owner Debra is the reason why. She simply loves what she does. She also sells vintage posters at vintageposterworks.com. We will have a new version of this site coming soon! -
Blue River Fly Company
blueriverflyco.com
Blue River Fly Company and it's founders Bill, Dave and Jason are based in Durango, Colorado the heart of fly fishing country. These guys know what they are doing and it is reflected in their site and wares. Get your fly fishing gear from people who actually fly fish and care about the environment. 1% of their sales go to to protect and preserve wild trout habitat. -
Element Multisport
elementms.com
We don't train as much as much as we'd like to, but this triathlon site sure makes us want to! Derived from a custom in-house template made this a very agile start-up for Element Multi Sport. The site looks and works great in tandem with the stores POS system. -
Beef Jerky Ninjas
beefjerkyninjas.com
Vegetarians look out. Run away! Run away! This delectable jerky may convert you to the Dark Side. This tasty tasty beefy, porky, chickeny snack needed a store that could live up to its mad ninja jerky skillz. Designed with a sense of humor and to customer spec and delivered with Shopify goodness for easy product and order management. Yum. -
Oranda Works
orandaworks.com
Ruth Beauchamp, Founder of OrandaWorks and the ultimate teacher needed our help. Like many site owners, she required a hand wrangling the mark-up on her site to get a consistent format from one page to the next. We stepped in to save the day. -
Peter Max
petermax.com
Super star artist and legend Peter Max is know for his out of this world color palate and alternate take on art. Who else gets to paint a Boeing 777 passenger plane? Really? We were contracted to code up this site into Shopify for some new superstar prints of an amazing portrait that he did of the Shaq. Like Peter as much as we do? Follow him on twitter! @Peter_Max -
Isochem Colors
isochem.net
Yes, you're right, they aren't selling anything online. So what? Who cares? They need CDN hosting for speed and reliably, easy way to update content and a modern web design. Now where am I going to get all that for a client in one bundle? Shopify has it all. If they had a standalone service without a sales component I would push it twice as hard. -
Pick A Peck Pickles
pickapeckpickles.com
Peter Piper picked a peck of... wait how does that go? Sarah Brubaker, the Marketing Director, with Pick-A-Peck Pickles, Inc., needed their site ported to Shopify to improve the pickle lover's shopping experience. Pick-A-Peck uses all natural ingredients, produces their products locally and knows how to add some kick to spice Grandma's pickled veggie recipes up!
How We Work
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Project Definition
The first thing we do when evaluating a new project is listen. We want to hear your needs and get a feel for what you have in mind.... Then we ask questions. Don't be surprised if it seems like we're interviewing you. We are. We really want to know you and know your product inside and out, and what makes it great. We want to understand your vision and your needs so that we can make a great match when it's time to plan out a site strategy.
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Site Structure
So here's where all those questions we asked start coming into play. Depending on what you sell, whether it's a service or a product, we need to know who your client is. Our target audience, branding, product, and site needs directly effect how every site needs to be laid out presentationally.
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Visual Design
The fun parts can start to begin. We decide on a grid to work with and then... Colors, textures, product images, typefaces, moodboards. Everything that starts exhilarating the artist within. Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks all start coming into play and ideas start progressing rapidly on screen.
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Site Development
Once we have finalized all the layouts for the site such as the home page, product pages, collection pages, blogs and plain text pages we can finally roll up our sleeves and start all the backend work. CSS, HTML5, and jQuery are all components in the first round. Once all the static code is complete and tested we finish up by bringing it in to Shopify and using it's liquid templating language to bring it all together. Theme settings are created and key components are routed through the templates to make a nice simple backend user interface for you to manage your bespoke theme.
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Launch
Products have to be entered and we're here to help you get up and on your feet and will help you develop the skills to manage your new web shop on a day to day basis. this includes managing your theme, entering products, creating collections, and tracking your orders. Don't worry if you ever need us post launch on a job by job basis we are always just a phone call or email away.
Just A Little Praise
My first encounter with another web developer hadn’t been great so I was wary when I was looking for another developer. From our first email exchange and skype call, we knew Jamie was the one for us. He was friendly, patient and knowledgeable. He really took time out to ask what I wanted and he explained (without the geek speak) what he was going to do.
Although I am in Australia and we are in different time zones, he always got back to my emails in a timely manner and skyped when needed.
He guided me through what I had to do from my end and in return I have gained great skills to look after the website on my own. I remember during our first conversation, he said, ‘I will do everything so that when the project is finished, you never have to call me for anything..’ And he’s right.
My brief to Jamie was, ‘I’d like it to be clean, modern and easy to navigate’… and that’s exactly what I got and more. See for yourself.. he nailed it.
Thank you Jamie and Robyn! For everything! I can't wait to work with you another project soon!
Suki Kwon
Owner / Founder / Sukimama
We were looking for someone to build a website with easy functioning on the back end and have the look we wanted on the front end. We posted the job on a forum and Jamie seemed like the best fit. He requested that we speak over the phone and we went over our vision of our new site. Jamie was responsive and met his deadline as promised. Any problems that we came across with creating the look we wanted he was able to inform us of the options we had and come up with a solution. With Evolution Design, Everything is Possible! Thank you!
Julia Poliadis
Wellbox Product Manager / Wellbox USA
We had been struggling with finding a good web designer for some time when we lucked into Jamie and Evolution Design. Jamie is easy to work with, professional, and very responsive to questions and discussion. He helped us crystallize what we needed on our website, then built it in record time and at a bargain price. We definitely recommend Evolution Design to anyone looking for a slick new website, on the Shopify platform or any other.
Daniel Elliot
Vice President / Alarm Expert / NextAlarm Monitoring Services, Inc.
Thank you Jamie and Robyn for all of your help and hard work for the Olivia Bloom site! I absolutely love it and being that I am not the most tech savvy, I truly feel that I am, with all that Jamie taught me! All the best!
Neada J. Onufrychuk
President / CEO / Olivia Bloom
Jamie and Robyn were wonderful to work with and did a fantastic job. We receive compliments daily from people who visit our site, routinely saying it is best in class in our industry. Jamie guided us through the website building process with good direction, a lot of patience, and quick responses to questions. Their attention to detail and willingness to help the evolution of the site is second to none!
Jason Adams
Owner / Fly Fisherman Extraordinaire / Blue River Fly Company
Jamie is amazing! Not only did he bring my design to life, but he made it more interactive, fluid and simple-to-mange than I imagined! Jamie worked closely with me to get just the right look and feel for everything, and it was all done in a matter of weeks! Working with Jamie was such a pleasure, he epitomizes "Southern Hospitality" - - - pleasurable attitude, warm, reliable and consistent in his work ethic. While I appreciated Jamie's pleasant and friendly demeanor, I'm most grateful that he was willing to share his knowledge with me through one-on-one instructions. He is a integral part of my start up success! Jamie takes great pride in his work and it was enjoyable to work with him.
In essence, Jamie made this project painless, efficient, fun, and ultimately better than my original vision.
They say, most Southerners never meet a stranger, that sure is the case in my situation, I consider Jamie a friend and I look forward to our continued working relationship.
Devita Davison
Owner / Entrepreneur / The Southern Pantry Company
Jamie and Robyn at Evolution Design are exceptionally efficient and their patient and thorough nature makes working with them a joy. They are masters at the world of Shopify and their experience in both the development and the customer service part of the web business is paramount. Their aesthetic is clean and beautiful and it's been a joy working with them. Evolution has helped launch the first of what I hope to be many Shopify sites under Locily, Gloucester Goods!
Lily Linquata
Founder / Artist / Gloucester Goods
From the first time I spoke with Jamie on the phone I knew that his knowledge of the web design and development industry, and also of Shopify, was trustworthy and deserving of my client's business. Their quick development time, their ability to style out internal pages to match our homepage vision, and their willingness and efficiency in training has been outstanding. Evolutions high-level skill set and their rapid pace of work made this a quick-to-launch and cost-effective solution without sacrificing quality or function. I would recommend their services, and the Shopify platform, to anyone looking to custom design an e-commerce website.
Chris Merrill
CEO / Founder / Super Web-O-Matic, Sister company of Fresh Tilled Soil
Our site was designed and programmed by a good friend of mine, Jamie of Evolution Design in Charleston, SC. If you need a web site, he is the man for the job. Excellent to work with, very knowledgeable and has many great suggestions when you are trying to figure out the toughest of ideas. We are very particular people and Jamie was able to keep his cool and work with us to pull out all the stops for every little detail we wanted.
Mark Stein
Owner / Photographer / Art Letter Prints
Working with Jamie on my website was a extremely refreshing and awesome. Especially after a couple of website fails, I was hesitant to hire a complete stranger all the way across the country who I couldn't even meet in person to perform the careful technical surgery I was in need of. My fears were quickly dispelled by the obvious expert genius of this man, and the pleasure of working with him.
Due to the complicated nature of the ordering process I needed for minutely customized products, I previously had difficulty finding someone who was up to the task. Within the platform of Shopify, Jamie, the master of this domain, was able to clearly design a very usable back-end that allowed for the front-end complexities I needed, in a way I could easily control. He was even able to decipher my crappy, scanned and emailed scribblings without making fun of me.
I also really appreciated something about Jamie I have not been able to find in other programmers: he was very clear with me when ideas I had for the site were not practical. As a non-programmer, not knowing the logistics of work involved in pulling certain things off, I have had trouble communicating that if there is an easier, better way to do something from the programming end, I would rather do it then spend a lot of time and money trying to achieve something that is not worth it.
Jamie was especially excellent in this regard, as he enlightened me about such processes and explained easily why it would be beneficial to do something a different way. His confidence in his abilities to concisely and thoroughly get done what needs doing are perhaps his biggest asset-- and yours when you hire him! Jamie's superlatively awesome programming skills, punctuality, clear communication, dedication, and dazzling wit would lend me to refer anyone to him in a snap.
Seyta Selter
Lady / Founding Duchess / Duchess Clothier
Jamie Sutton has been a fabulous resource for me and my site. He has not only been a trustworthy consultant that has empowered me to manage parts of the site, but also a problem solver and efficient expert in fixing and improving the site. I find him to be accessible, approachable, exceptional in customer service and an excellent communicator. On many occasions he has gone the extra mile. I am very grateful for his attention and talents! Top qualities: Great Results, Personable, Expert
Ruth Beauchamp
Founder / Professional Development / Oranda Works
I hired Jamie to design and build my website and he did a beautiful job! Jamie is really easy to work with and has very deep technical expertise. He built me a stunning website that I could easily update and maintain myself. He has a knack for thinking down the road and coming up with solutions that work now and long into the future. He is also great at researching solutions to problems and presenting options. I have recommended Jamie to a number of friends and they all love him too. Top qualities: Great Results, Personable, Expert
Taryn Voget
CEO / Speaker / Everyday Genius Institute
We hired Jamie and his firm to help us design our new company website with new layout, new photos, and a a new shopping cart. Jamie's work was exemplary, he was a joy to work with, very professional and work was always done on time as promised. We had some unique requirements that he helped accommodate for us, being very flexible in how he solved these problems. Most appreciated for me, personally, was that I was quite a picky customer to work with, requesting changes many times over and being a unnecessary perfectionist at times. However, Jamie worked with us very patiently, and the resulting end product was fantastic. I would highly recommend Jamie and Evolution Design work for anyone looking to quickly design a new website! Top qualities: Great Results, Personable, High Integrity
Ken Mihara
Creative Consultant / Content Management / Tonserio
Jamie has produced three websites for me over the past four years. He has an extensive knowledge for creating websites that have clean code, easy administrative function, and superb search engine results. Each website has exceeded my expectations in all aspects. Well done Jamie! A+ Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, High Integrity
Daniel Quigley
Owner / Photographer / Breeze Photo
Jamie is an excellent designer, illustrator, programmer, and problem solver. He has a rare blend of technical skill and knowledge in technology melded with the heart and mind of a fine artist. I've worked with him on several projects and am always amazed by his work ethic, energy, confidence, and insight he brings to every job. I can't recommend Jamie enough.
Baird Hoffmire
Artist / Illustrator / Electric PaintBrush Studio
Jamie is a top-notch graphic designer with deep technical knowledge. The websites that he designs complement the overall design aesthetic of each client he serves. Additionally, Jamie's technical skills have provided his clients with sites that serve their underlying business needs perfectly. As a result, he is considered a go-to resource by many of his website framework partners, and his skills are highly in demand.
Chuck McCormick
PMP / Senior Project Manager / ICF International
We thought the definition of Computer/Tech savvy was being able to efficiently compose and answer emails, so when we found Jamie he answered our prayers! Evolution design was able to understand our brand, and help create our image. Jamie successfully created this with our logo, labels and web site very seamlessly in a short amount of time, and most importantly with little effort on our part—that’s what makes him good at what he does!
Carrie Morey and Callie White
Owners / Culinary Creators / Callie’s Charleston Biscuits
Jamie is an experienced web designer and worked wonders with my website conversion to an e-commerce site. Using Shopify, he maintained the personality and appearance of my existing website and transformed it into a smoothly functioning e-commerce site. I would recommend Jamie to any business wanting to add shopping cart and on-line sales functionality to the website. Top qualities: Great Results, Good Value, On Time
Terry Sadowski
Owner / President / Plaza Suite Boutique
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We charge $90 per hour. Custom Shopify eCommerce sites generally start at $2500 and go up from there depending on the scope and complexity of the project. Currently booking for late March.