Testimonials
Compliments from folks who I have had the privilege of working with over the years.
Embarking on a website is always anxiety provoking, and I was on a tight timeframe and budget as well. Happily, Barry “got it” quickly and put together a draft that needed only small tweaks before it was ready to go. He was thorough in his explanation of the process and the decisions he made along the way. His video updates were terrific and helped my client and me understand what was going on. When he delivered the final version, he created a series of videos explaining how I could add content- and when I needed to have them readily accessible, he just plopped them in the dashboard for easy access. Moreover, he worked tirelessly to wrap up artifacts of the old website, ensuring that we’re not being billed for unused hosting services or domains. I highly recommend Barry’s work!
Barry created a website for our nonprofit environmental association from scratch in 42 days, beating our deadline by about a week. His organizational skills match his creative skills, along with his communication skills – all of which were exceptional, exceeding our expectations. He built our site which was comprised of 27 “pages”, 67 photographs, 51 PDFs, plus graphs, charts and links to
Facebook, as well as some clever email forwarding functions. With Barry’s help, we are now able to solicit donations from both new and existing members for the first time in our 50-year history – the savings we realize from this functionality alone will pay for the website development. It was clear from the start that Barry was a great listener, very experienced, and also experienced working with people
who were not tech savvy. He has provided us with coaching and videos that give us detailed instructions on updating our website, which we’ve already done, to our own amazement! Barry is a dependable, disciplined, talented professional and he does not disappoint.
“I have had the privilege of working collaboratively with Barry for over two years on several projects for the University of Connecticut. Barry assisted me with creative web design, website SEO optimization, and graphic design in launching several new initiatives at the University. Barry is very thoughtful in his approach, incredibly easy to work with, and his creative talents are impressive and highly regarded. I undoubtedly recommend his work.”
“In designing our mobile-friendly site, Barry strove to capture the essence of what makes our business unique, through a creative use of our best photos overlaid on backgrounds that reflect our ambiance. Users of our website constantly praise the scenic photos and the ease of accessing the information they need. Barry responds quickly to our questions, and has helped us with social media and marketing tools as well. We highly recommend his work!”
“Barry has been a valued partner of my agency for several years. His communications style, his beautiful design, his fast response time and his caring personality make him a joy to work with. We have asked him to build several sites for our clients and for our own business. The value he delivers for the investment are reasonable and greatly appreciated by everyone on my agency team, on our client teams and by the website users. I highly recommend Barry Costa for your web project.”
“Barry brings creativity, energy, solutions and professionalism to every meeting and project. I have worked with him on a variety of marketing efforts — brochures, logos, branding, websites, invitations and more — and he always asks good questions about the scope and goals to be sure he a delivers a successful, timely, and budget friendly result. He’s also a lot of fun to work with! I highly recommend Barry Costa.”
“We worked with Barry to redesign our entire website, and honestly couldn’t be happier! He’s more than just a designer – he’s really a “website coach”. He’s easy to communicate with, extremely responsive and ridiculously talented. He turned our website from blah to wow in just a few weeks! It’s much more responsive, faster to load and incorporates the latest in SEO tips and tricks. FIVE STARS!”
“We recently started a new business in the summer of 2019. Some of the most daunting decisions are whether to outsource tasks or to tackle them ourselves. Barry does so much more than just the heavy lifting (designing). Timelines, expectations (from both parties) and helping us bring our vision to reality quickly came to light when we started working together. Barry has an amazing ability to blend the technical aspect of design while maintaining his craft of being an artist. His professionalism, experience, and clear communication style were a breath of fresh air. We not only have a website that we are super proud of we also know how to service and tinker with it allowing us to easily make updates as we need.”
