WebGarage Studio

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the founder and CEO of ArtCube Nation, a company that provides a network and marketplace connecting creatives and vendors with employers seeking to hire staff for fabrication shops, film, TV, events, installations, theater gigs, and set dressing projects.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with WebGarage Studio?

I originally hired WebGarage Studio for a Stripe migration.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

WebGarage Studio started with our Stripe transfer and then stayed on as our developer for our WordPress membership platform. The main deliverables included Stripe transfer and ongoing Stripe testing in the sandbox, QA on a staging site before anything went live, Postmark transactional email setup and testing, reCAPTCHA Enterprise coverage across our forms, including fixing a script that wasn’t loading, weekly plugin updates and deployments, and bug hunting. The team also worked on our user dashboard and our blog metadata and design and built my Figma designs into the live site.

What is the team composition?

I worked with one teammate from WebGarage Studio.

How did you come to work with WebGarage Studio?

I found WebGarage Studio through Upwork. I chose them over other options because of their high ratings and great culture fit.

What is the status of this engagement?

We worked together in March 2023-March 2026.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

The biggest win was the platform's stability. When I needed the site steadied, WebGarage Studio stabilized it and kept it maintained, with weekly plugin updates and deployments on a staging-first routine. Their site speed work and page markup showed up in our SEO. The team also fixed things users actually felt, like password-reset emails that weren’t arriving and a reCAPTCHA script that wasn’t loading. The Stripe transfer that started it all went through cleanly.

How did WebGarage Studio perform from a project management standpoint?

WebGarage Studio was good at project management. If they couldn’t hit a date, they told me when they could. If my expectations were too high, they helped me reset them instead of just saying yes. The team also let me know when something was ready. They worked at my pace; I liked plugin updates and deployments on Mondays, so they saved them for Monday, and I’d see them done. It was a small thing, but it made working with them easy.Our primary form of communication was email and messaging apps.

What did you find most impressive about them?

What stood out most was how steady WebGarage Studio stayed. They worked from Ukraine, under conditions most of us couldn’t imagine, and sometimes through very hard moments. They were still calm, kind, and got the job done. WebGarage Studio was a strong team, and I trusted them to come through no matter the circumstances.

Are there any areas they could improve?

WebGarage Studio worked fast, and speed was their priority. My one wish was that we’d adopted a more formal, GitHub-based deployment process sooner. They found it slower than shipping directly, and I was someone who needed to see exactly what was changing on the site and when. A little more patience with that kind of tracking would have made our work together even smoother. Otherwise, I had no complaints, and I’d hire them again.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m a project manager at Boulder Group, an advertising and marketing company. We partner with science and tech brands to deliver creative strategy and world-class production, helping them express complex ideas in compelling ways.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire WebGarage Studio to accomplish for Boulder Group’s science and tech clients?

We needed to build a WordPress website from a Figma design.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

WebGarage Studio developed a full responsive website with animations.

What is the team composition?

We worked with one teammate from WebGarage Studio.

How did you come to work with WebGarage Studio?

We found them through an online search. We chose them over other options because they had high ratings and offered good value for the cost.

What is the status of this engagement?

We worked together from June–May 2024.

How did you communicate with them?

We used virtual meetings, emails, and messaging apps.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

WebGarage Studio delivered a great website with a fully updated backend. We were very satisfied with the project and would use their services again.

How did WebGarage Studio perform from a project management standpoint?

They had fast development and were easy to give feedback to. The team also had great QA.

What did you find most impressive about them?

WebGarage Studio had great technical skills, client management, and an accurate scope.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I'm an executive at RIP.scot

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Scottish funeral notice website 

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire WebGarage Studio to accomplish?

• Migrate website to new hosting
• Custmomize functionality
• Improve front-end elements
• Optimize page speed

SOLUTION

How did you find WebGarage Studio?

Online Search

Why did you select WebGarage Studio over others?

• High ratings
• Great culture fit
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from WebGarage Studio were assigned to this project?

1 Employee

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

Planned and reactive maintenance - Hosting, SSL certificates, backups. Security patching and CMS and plugin updates.

On-going development - A multi-step notice form. It collects the customer's details, the deceased's details and the funeral service details, and lets people upload a photo or pick a preset one. It takes payment by card through Stripe, at £10.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

1.Website was migrated succesfully.

2.Visitor engagement

LCT increased from 4.7 to 3.0 seconds

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

They are methodical and reliable, and every milestone has been delivered on time

What was your primary form of communication with WebGarage Studio?

Virtual Meeting

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

WebGarage Studio's team is an excellent communicator that takes the time to understand what their clients need.

Are there any areas for improvement or something WebGarage Studio could have done differently?

No, not at this time.