Nonprofit Website Design Solutions

Hey gang, Nearly every year for more than a decade, I have watched my children grow up next to a [...]

A developer lands on your website with a 40,000-square-foot ground-up project and four firms on the shortlist. Can that person [...]

A MemberPress update is crashing sites that still run the long-abandoned Constant Contact add-on, with a fatal "InjectsDependencies trait not found" error. Here's what happened, how to get your site back up, and a free patched version of the plugin.

A custom metal fabrication shop lives and dies by the quality of the quotes it gets asked to bid. So [...]

Real manufacturing website lead generation takes more than a brochure. An Indianapolis agency with 300+ builds shows how to turn an industrial site into a sales rep.

WooCommerce vs Shopify for your small business store in 2026? An Indianapolis agency with 300+ builds breaks down cost, control, SEO, and which one actually fits.

How to choose WordPress hosting for small business that is fast, secure, and SEO-friendly. The host types, what to look for, and the red flags to avoid.

Web design vs web development explained in plain English: what each one does, where they overlap, and which your small business actually needs.

On April 14, 2026 we published an 1,500-word article on Google Analytics for small businesses. It was written by an [...]

Hiring a web design agency is one of those decisions business owners make maybe once every five to seven years. [...]

Small business owners ask us about website performance all the time. Most of the time, the conversation jumps straight to [...]

Google Search Console is free, takes about ten minutes to set up, and it is the single most useful piece [...]

Google Analytics is the most powerful free tool available to any small business with a website. It is also the [...]

Website accessibility compliance is no longer optional. If your business website cannot be used by people with disabilities, you are [...]

If you are trying to decide between WordPress vs. Squarespace vs. Wix for your business website, you have probably already [...]

If you are getting ready to invest in a new website for your business, a website design RFP (Request for [...]

The biggest reason most business websites don't generate leads isn't the design. It's the words. Here's how to write website content that actually converts visitors into customers.

After nearly 300 website projects, here's an honest breakdown of the website redesign timeline: what happens in each phase, what causes delays, and how to keep your project on schedule.

After 15 years and nearly 300 projects, here's exactly how to evaluate web design companies. Use this guide on us or our competitors. We'd rather you make a good decision than a fast one.

Not sure if your business website needs a redesign? After nearly 300 projects, here are the 7 signs we see most often, what they're costing you, and what to do about it.

In 2026, WordPress website speed isn’t just a nice-to-have. It’s a ranking factor that Google takes very seriously. With the [...]

Are you wondering how you can generate more leads online from your website in 2026 and beyond? Digital marketing offers [...]

Most business owners have no idea their website is turning away customers. Here are 10 common website problems that cost you leads and revenue, and how to fix each one.

What does a custom business website actually cost in 2026? After nearly 300 projects, we built a pricing calculator based on real data. Here's what drives the numbers and how to get the most from your investment.

Explore the pros and cons of different Content Management Systems - WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal. Discover why WordPress comes out on top for most web design needs. Make the right CMS choice with Sharp Guys Web Design.

Over five days, I treated AI as a mid-level engineering partner to transform a hobby tennis app into a full-featured SaaS product. The app tripled in size, gained Stripe billing, encryption, analytics, and more. Here's what I learned about what AI can and cannot do.

Hey gang, The last thing I want to do is take away something you all love (to hate?) like these infrequent [...]

Across nearly 300 website projects since 2011, roughly one in four has been a nonprofit. CILRA. Water For Good. Tumaini [...]

Search is changing faster than most businesses realize. Traditional Google results are shrinking, answer engines like ChatGPT and Claude are [...]

As of September 10th, a change by Google has made your GSC data no longer accurate. In this video, I [...]

How does Sharp Guys Web Design’s ongoing maintenance plan reduce website downtime risk? Summary: The maintenance plan includes continuous uptime [...]

To be perfectly honest, I’m writing this blog post for SEO reasons. Very few people are writing anything for the [...]

Hey all, imagine spending 2 or 3 hours writing a single blog piece.  That’s the price to pay in my [...]

Hey gang, Today I was listening to a new podcast called Truthache that included the ever-excellent Daniel Herndon that had the extra benefit [...]

At Sharp Guys Web Design, we’ve been partnering with trade associations for a decade—building powerful websites that don’t just look [...]

Hey gang, With yesterday’s announcement that the penny is likely going away – the coin best known for Lincoln’s visage, superstitious head-up retrievals, [...]

Social media has become an indispensable tool for nonprofits to reach a wider audience, engage with supporters, and drive donations. [...]

Nonprofit organizations play a crucial role in supporting communities, and their online presence is vital for raising awareness, securing donations, [...]

For service-based businesses in Indianapolis, having a professional and functional website is just the first step toward achieving success online. [...]

Securing your WordPress website is paramount, especially for high-traffic sites that handle sensitive information and serve a large audience. For [...]

For manufacturing companies in Indianapolis, standing out in local search results is essential to attracting new clients and growing your [...]

If you have ever tried to spec a new manufacturing partner online, you know what a useless industrial website looks [...]

Hey gang, Everyone who has been on social, turned on the TV, or read the news for the last week [...]

Learn how to handle a hacked WordPress website, the importance of Google Search Console, and why regular website maintenance and support, including services like Sucuri, are critical to your site's security and search engine rankings.

If you looked around the website, you know that we are some folks living in and around the Indianapolis area [...]

If you’re considering a website redesign, you know how crucial it is to create a digital space that not only [...]

I often have people ask me what Sharp Guys’ does.  Over the years, I have gotten a bit better giving [...]

Hold onto your hats – WordPress isn’t just for hobbyists. It’s the secret sauce behind 43.4% of the internet, from [...]

Navigating the theme forest of WordPress? Learn why we at Sharp Guys Web Design trust Avada, the most utilized WordPress theme globally. It's not just a theme, it's a solution.

Turning Your Website into a 24/7 Salesman Remember that time you set up a lemonade stand as a kid? Your [...]

You know that feeling when you stumble upon a life-changing app on your phone? Maybe it’s one that helps you [...]

Crafting a B2B website? Dive into our wine-inspired guide, ensuring your digital presence is as captivating as a top-shelf Bordeaux. At Sharp Guys Web Design, we serve up elegance with every pixel. Cheers!

Discover how Sharp Guys Web Design seamlessly integrates donor management systems into nonprofit websites. Our tailored approach ensures smooth implementation, easy updates, and ongoing support to help nonprofits thrive.

Hey all, I saw an ad popup recently for a competitor to WooCommerce, the main eCommerce platform used by companies [...]

We provide small business website design and there seems to be several things that their websites often have issues with [...]

Each year as tax season approaches, the term ‘audit’ might send a shiver down the spine of many. However, there’s [...]

Join Cody Sharp as he takes you through Sharp Guys' proven website redesign project plan. Discover how we redesign websites to deliver exceptional user experiences.

Discover why partnering with a local web design agency can transform your business, and why it’s time to wave goodbye to those impersonal, distant digital giants!

Boost your sales with an expertly designed website. Learn practical tips on user-friendly navigation, responsive design, engaging content, speedy site performance, clear CTAs, and SEO optimization.

Hey gang, It’s probably seemed like like it’s been a year (or if you have a really good memory, 280 [...]

Learn how to unleash your website's full lead-generation potential. Harness practical tips, expert advice, and my personal experiences to make your website a lead-generating powerhouse!

Discover the multiple benefits of using WordPress for your business website. From flexibility to cost-effectiveness, learn why WordPress is the go-to choice for businesses worldwide.

Learn how to turbocharge your website's lead-generation capabilities with these practical tips and insights. Discover how prioritizing your clients' needs can supercharge your business growth.

Hey all, I grabbed the captions from the video below, threw it into my ChatGpt ‘Cody Sharp 1.0 Model’ I [...]

Discover the importance of regular website maintenance and updates, and how it can boost your website's performance, security, and user experience.

Learn how to incorporate video content into your website design. Discover the benefits of homepage videos, product videos, testimonial videos, and educational videos. Enhance your website design with video content with Sharp Guys Web Design.

Most websites quietly undermine the content marketing budget pouring into them. Here's what content marketing web design actually requires, from a firm that's done both sides for 15+ years.

Discover how to build trust with secure websites and e-commerce. Learn about the importance of HTTPS, security badges, regular updates, privacy policies, and secure payment gateways. Build trust with Sharp Guys Web Design.

A cheap or DIY website quietly costs you customers every day. Here's why professional design pays for itself — and what "professional" actually means now.

Thinking about a revamp of your business website? Here's what 15+ years and 250+ projects has taught us about timeline, budget, SEO migration, and the mistakes we get hired to clean up.

Discover the power of microinteractions in enhancing user experience. Learn how these subtle design elements can turn a functional website into a delightful journey. Take your website to new heights with Sharp Guys Web Design.

Unravel the maze of WordPress with this comprehensive guide for beginners. Learn about themes, plugins, content, and more. Start your WordPress adventure with Sharp Guys Web Design.

Learn the secrets of color psychology in web design. Discover how the right color choices can influence emotions, guide actions, and improve accessibility. Let's paint the web with colors that matter with Sharp Guys Web Design.

Discover the power of branding and web design as the ultimate digital marketing duo. Learn how they create consistency, credibility, recognition, engagement, and loyalty for your business. Get expert help from Sharp Guys Web Design.

Discover why having a mobile-responsive website is a big deal and how to check if your site meets the mark. Learn about the importance of mobile responsiveness, user experience, and SEO, and test your site with Sharp Guys Web Design.

Discover the secrets to achieving user bliss with Sharp Guys Web Design's comprehensive guide to UX design for websites. From navigation and readability to responsiveness and pop-ups, learn how to create a seamless user experience.

Discover how to craft a winning content strategy for your business blog with Sharp Guys Web Design. Learn the steps to understand your audience, set goals, brainstorm topics, plan your content calendar, create compelling content, promote, and optimize for success.

Discover the best practices for nonprofit web design, from user-friendly navigation to compelling storytelling. Make your website a digital masterpiece with Sharp Guys Web Design.

Today, we’re veering away from the usual web design talk and diving into the world of artificial intelligence (AI). Over [...]

Discover the 5 secret sauce ingredients for crafting a high-converting landing page. Learn how to create compelling headlines, focused content, irresistible CTAs, social proof, and a distraction-free experience. Boost conversions and claim your digital treasure!

Embark on an epic quest to build your startup's online fortress. Discover the keys to a stunning website, SEO, social media, monitoring, content marketing, and online reputation. Reign supreme in the digital realm with a strong web presence!

Picture this: You’ve just whipped up the most mouth-watering, finger-licking dish known to humankind. But wait, something’s missing—the secret sauce! [...]

Greetings, digital wizards and web-wandering warlocks! Have you ever gazed upon the vast realm of search engines and pondered the [...]

As a small business owner, you’ve probably heard the buzz about local SEO (search engine optimization) and how it can [...]

My buddy and I had a website when we were 18-19 years old that has been dead for well over [...]

Hey gang, As we near the end of the year, we started doing what a lot of folks are likely [...]

Hey gang, Here in Indianapolis we are down to the last three days of having a sunset occur past Cody’s [...]

Hey gang,  Have you ever had a brilliant idea for something that you are positive will be awesome – an [...]

Designing a website can be as daunting as baking cookies with children. A typical website design process may last several [...]

Hey gang,  I figured out a catchy subject line but I have no idea how I am going to connect [...]

If you’re like most people, you will use Google to search for something at least 5 times today. Me? I’m [...]

Hey gang, I’m already regretting my subject line – what the heck is T-Day?  It looks like I simply misspelled [...]

Sharp Guys Web Design has over a decade of experience working with nonprofits to design or redesign their organization’s websites. [...]

Hey gang, 7 years ago (and a day) I announced I was going to spend all of my time trying [...]

Hey gang, It seems like yesterday since I last sat down and wrote one of these expansive random emails to [...]

Dr. Karlinsey was not only one of the nicest guys we have ever spoken to, he was also incredibly accomplished having a bunch of patents under his name at a young age.  His idea was to...

2026 update: I wrote this in 2020. Six years later, AI tools have flooded inboxes with generic, perfectly-formatted, voiceless newsletters [...]

Hey gang, Have you ever needed to go out to your car and grab something really quick – maybe you [...]

So you decided to take the step of creating a new website for your business – replacing an existing one, [...]

Google, Google, Google, will you please, tell me who’s the best web designer in Indy? 2026 update note: I originally [...]

You or someone previous to you made the wise decision to create a WordPress website.  Now you log in for [...]

Hey gang, Last week I read music titan and Presidential hopeful, Kanye West, had made a speech that some (all) found offensive [...]

Recently in Indiana, and more specifically in the Indianapolis-area, there have been a couple of different agencies that have either [...]

Imagine you had a farm and you had a few hens that laid eggs.  These hens were super amazing and [...]

Have you ever wondered, ‘How do I get my company to show up on Google?’.  To answer that question, I [...]

Does social media work for B2B lead generation in 2026? An honest look at when it is worth your time, when it is not, and where B2B buyer attention has actually moved.

Hey gang, I gave the newsletter the summer off for good behavior but now it’s back, a little rusty but [...]

Most companies have pretty standard lead forms on their website and almost all of them are poorly made.  Name, Phone, [...]

Hey gang, People that have read these emails in the past know that I use an outlandish number of ()s [...]

Hey gang, So over the past few months I bought a black desk – well, now that I think of [...]

Sharp Guys is a web design agency that has been building websites since 2011. We’re a small shop in Fishers [...]

This year I have listened to or read some books.  Some of them were great, some may have been considered [...]

Hey gang,At Sharp Guys we have a number of repositories with stock photos we can use for clients. I wouldn’t [...]

Hey gang, I’ve always heard that people get their best ideas in the shower.  While I enjoy showers, as far [...]

Hey gang, You know those massage chairs at malls – the ones where you slide a credit card through and [...]

Hi, I’m Jeremy Butcher, the Digital Marketing Manager here at Sharp Guys Web Design. Okay, now that we’re done with [...]

Hey gang, Have you ever finished reading a book or watching a movie and hated that it was over?  I [...]

Gang, I’m getting old. Or at least my annoyance at certain things are making me feel old.  Early this year [...]

One of the things I do after meeting with anyone, on the phone or in person, is write a custom [...]

Hey gang, You are here so you may have noticed my Valentine’s Day-themed subject line – Love is in the Arrow [...]

You have a dream one night – you dream of being an eCommerce marketer and having the ability to directly [...]

There are songs that I have heard 1000 times in my life and I could listen to them 10,000 times [...]

Hey gang, I remember writing a story for 6th grade English.  It was assigned weeks in advance and in common [...]

When I went out on my own in August 2014, I gave myself a three-month window. If it didn’t work, [...]

Hey gang, Well it’s officially summertime and I’m over here sweating the generalities. Have you noticed how many web headlines use the phrase [...]

If this is the first time you are hearing of Google certifications, let me write a quick introduction.  Google has essentially [...]

I have nothing against the author of this plugin and the tremendous work he has put into it.  It’s widely [...]

Several times over the past year we have started the project of creating a new website for Sharp Guys Web [...]

Hey gang, Think about that subject line – Jefferson not only helped outline our democracy but he also took the [...]

Good afternoon gang, With the kids back in school, it got me thinking about what they will be learning and [...]

Hello readers – two random things – Recently I was at a presentation where I learned that the average cereal [...]

Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble is a book by former Tech Editor of Newsweek, Dan Lyons.  The premise of [...]

Hey gang, Long ago I read an article that argued that American’s were becoming less social, less engaged, and less aware. [...]

A weird thing about selling your car with no heat during winter time – no one wants it.  I started [...]

Hi again gang, Sometimes people ask me how I write these emails and usually I tell them that I simply [...]

We are just days away from one of the fastest growing holidays in the holiday economy (did I just make [...]

Today marks the one year anniversary of Sharp Guys Web Design being a full time venture! Unfortunately I just found [...]

In today’s IBJ, there is an article about the ‘cash woes’ IndyCar teams are facing. It isn’t surprising because motor [...]

45% of you surprisingly open our newsletter emails on an ongoing basis. I know what you are thinking, “Cody I didn’t [...]

It has always bothered me that Indiana is considered a ‘flyover state’ – mostly because the term has a negative [...]

2026 update: I wrote this back in 2015. Eleven years later, the platforms have changed (Twitter became X, LinkedIn ate [...]

This isn’t one of those posts where I tell you, “YOU CAN’T AFFORD NOT TO DO DIGITAL MARKETING!’  Those suck.  Instead, [...]

This month’s newsletter is a bit shorter than usual (you’re welcome) While you may already be thinking of St. Patty’s [...]

I’ve learned so much but nothing has stuck with me like this – the advent of the Oreo was a [...]

I’m a big believer in using Camtasia for a variety of things.  If you aren’t familiar, Camtasia is, “A powerful, [...]

It’s 9:34 am on December 29th and it is new business prospecting day (every Monday I prioritize prospecting for new [...]

I’ll happily shovel a snow filled driveway, work on a client’s website until 2 AM, and spend 3 hours cleaning [...]

I know what you’re thinking Jeez Cody, What took you so long to send out another semi, self-promotional email? First [...]

I’m that guy – no, not the guy in the image.  I’m the guy that tells all of his clients [...]

You may remember last month when I officially launched Sharp Guys Web Design as a full time business.  However, I [...]

Over the last 2 weeks, this Indianapolis web design firm has had a lot going on. Since officially announcing the full time launch of the company just two Monday's ago, I have realized that the Web Design portion of the company name is a misnomer. While web design is certainly still a large part of what we do, we are now working on projects including infographic research and creation, SalesForce cleanup, logo design, lead generation and marketing consultation.

If you have a business, even a small one, please remember that all of the Likes, Fans and Shares you have will not matter at all if Facebook won't allow you to speak to them. As it stands, your ‘earned’ Facebook audience will not see your news feeds 100% of the time. In fact, without paying Facebook, Facebook says only about 16%...

New logo New business cards New website New office Announce business to friends, colleagues, and business contacts (this email) Some [...]

There is an old Harry Chapin song called ‘Flowers are Red’.  It details a story of forced conformity – in [...]

Yesterday I tweeted an article that said that only 1% of online purchases come from social media.  That doesn’t mean it’s worthless, it [...]

Yesterday I had an unusual occurrence in that I received 4 text messages from Smile Dentistry (name changed to protect [...]

Sorry, I have no excuse for using so many keywords on this blog posting other than I wanted to cram [...]

Utilizing someone else’s services for your business is a fact of life for most small businesses and increasingly, large businesses.  [...]

Learn how incorporating client perspectives into your weekly blog can not only provide valuable insights but also boost your brand's credibility and trustworthiness.