Hi, we're Shipton.
We create and support affordable, responsive websites for small businesses and organizations. With over 20 years’ experience with private, public, non-profit organizations, Kirsten Uszkalo and Darren James Harkness have a proven track record of helping people make sense of their online presence.
Broadcasting History
Broadcasting History is an archive of all radio and television stations maintained by the Canadian Communications Foundation. Shipton managed the development, maintenance, and content strategy of the site.
Built and maintained on Drupal.
Apache Essentials
Apache Essentials is a book intended to help UX professionals and junior web developers learn how to use the Apache web server. Shipton built a launch site for the book.
Built on Craft CMS.
Today> Slack App
Today> provides focused personal task management with friendly reminders and intelligent workload planning. Shipton created the app using the Slack API as well as a static support website.
Built on Slack API, static site.
What we do
Small businesses can have a big impact. We're here to help.
We start every engagement with a discovery, where we research your business’ existing content, requirements, and practices to understand how we can best engage with you and your business.
- Content audit & analysis
- Content governance & planning
- Content authoring
A website is only as good as its content. Let us help you form a coherent and powerful strategy for your website copy that resonates with your customers. Shipton provides full-service content strategy services, including
- Content audit & analysis
- Content governance & planning
- Content authoring
We start every engagement with a discovery, where we research your business’ existing content, requirements, and practices to understand how we can best engage with you and your business.
- Requirements gathering & synthesis
- Audience & competitor research
User experience is key to a successful website. We help you better understand what your audiences' needs from your website and will formulate a plan to meet them.
- User Experience Strategy
- Analytics & Reporting
- Usability testing
- Technical planning
When you're ready to build-out business' website quickly and securely, Shipton offers web development services for most content management systems and websites. With a strong network of designers and writers, we can provide you with a full-service solution for your company's needs.
- Site growth & scalability
- Website CMS implementation
- Custom CMS functionality
- Theme development
- Static and single page website builds
- Landing pages
With a strong network of designers and writers, we can also help provide you with a full-service solution for your company's needs.
Websites need to be maintained to stay in good working order. We offer updating and minor revision services. We can help you with the following:
- CMS Training & Documentation
- Content entry and editing
- Core CMS and plugin updates
- Incident recovery & post-mortems
- Site monitoring
