We're not for everyone.

Ethercycle is a web design studio for those who won't settle for "good enough." We build websites with a stubborn commitment to our own standards. We help real businesses meet demanding goals. We're about collaborating honestly with you to deliver results.

We have been web nerds since the dot-com boom. We know what a website done right looks like, so we build our websites to those standards. We have to; our name is on every site we build.

Meet the team.

, Chief Software Engineer and resident mad scientist, has been coding for fifteen years. Prior to Ethercycle, he worked at Designkitchen on the Sears Craftsman, and HON accounts. Today he enjoys semantic markup, Kentucky bourbon, and hurtling through the woods on a bicycle.

, Creative Director, is equal parts academic and artist. While studying integrated marketing at the University of Chicago, he taught online business development at a local college. A published photographer, he spends his weekends behind the lens.

, Lead Developer, started his professional career as an "HTML4 Integrator" for a high volume design firm, and later graduated to become the first Web Producer for The Onion A.V. Club. Presently he is responsible for Ethercycle's Front-End Development, as well as the office Nerf armament.

We're kind of a big deal.

You could say we “wrote the book” on web design. Really we just contributed.

In his book, Starting Your Career as a Freelance Web Designer, author Neil Tortorella identifies Ethercycle as a noted industry authority and business leader, sharing our wisdom and advice with his readers.

We're in the news, too. Our thoughts on technology have appeared in Crain's Chicago Business, Computerworld, Inc Magazine, Fox News, and NBC Chicago.

You may even hear us in your car. We're a tech news adviser to Chicago's FM News 101.

Skills & Stats at a glance

Strategy

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Design

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Development

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Snowblower Repair

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Support

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Founded

1079 days ago

Coffee Consumed

384 gallons

Front-End Dev.

HTML5/CSS3/JS

Back-End Dev.

PHP & MySQL