MIGHTYminnow Web Studio & School

I went from being a complete moron to a web genius in a weekend. Ok maybe not a total genius but I knew nothing and now I know everything I need to know to launch and maintain my own website for my photography. Kristin and her team were very patient and provided clear and concise guidance through each step. I had no idea what went into building a website and I would have never thought I could make one myself. The best part of this weekend class is that it’s small, which means you get the individual attention you need to succeed. The were three others in my class and we were all building a site for completely different reasons, however, Kristin and her TAs were able to balance the different needs of every student. The class structure alternates between brief lecturing and then lab time to execute what you have learned. If you need a website and you’re on a budget, this class is perfect.

Wow, I just launched my website and I’m thrilled. I am a web rookie and a tech disaster and hired Mighty Minnow with the intention of having the work done with me, for me. Kristin was fantastic. She was readily available, patient, frank with her feedback and supportive of our direction. The outcome was tremendous.
We got the job done quickly, within her estimate with a finished product far better than I had hoped. Thank you.

What a service. What a class. What great people.
I wasn’t even correctly enrolled in the class and Kritin accommodated let me stay for the class. I was excited to be taking a class in wordpress that was so highly rated. I had taken other wordpress classes at adult education facilities previously, but they were nowhere near as informative and productive as the Web weekend at Mighty Minnow. I was one of the few that did not have a completed website by the end of the class, but that is because I am insisting on a very complex site with upwards of a hundred pages and e-​commerce. From the get go, I understood that this was beyond the concept of the Web Weekend class. I did get more accomplished and further along in my process than i ever imagined that I would.
Kristin was wonderful to work with. She has a gift for teaching and she is so supportive. Couple this with a great sense of humor and you have the ideal person in the ideal environment. She is great and the class is great.
Like other reviewers, I have worked with many other developers and the reason that I was in the class was that I was unable to have the sense of control in the product that I wanted, but I left the class feeling like I had found what i have been looking for for years.
Kirstin and the other staff members were so courteous and knowledgeable that they exceeded all of my expectations.
Everyone who wants to control their own web content should take this class. It is such a deal! It deserves all of the 5 stars.

Highly Recommended!
I have to say, working with Kristin has been the best experience I’ve ever had working with a design professional. I came to her with no idea of what I wanted my site to look like. Now just a few short weeks later, I have a site that I absolutely love!
She made the entire process super easy, accommodating all my special requests. She is truly gifted and knows what she is doing. She’s quick, extremely responsive and does not turn over anything unless it’s done perfectly. She has a great eye for design, which was quite helpful when I wasn’t sure which way to go. I highly recommend her to anyone who wants a quality website. Her classes are totally fun. She’s fun and easy to work with. I am definitely keeping her on my team as my go-​to web designer.

So Worth the Investment!
The MIGHTYminnow «Website Weekend» class was one of the most valuable investments I have made as a small business owner. I enjoy being intimately involved in the design elements that create our public image, including our website, and I was reluctant to give full control of that (and the budget for it) to a web-​designer.
After two intense days of instruction, I graduated from the Website Weekend class with a website that looks professional and cutting edge, and I learned the skills that will enable me to expand or change the site as we grow (and add pages, change images and layout, add blogs, etc.)
Kristin is a natural teacher, and her ability to lead the class (at the right pace) and impart huge volumes of knowledge without overwhelming anyone or leaving anyone behind was impressive. She was able to give guidance to our class that helped all of us improve the visual elements of our websites. She and her assistants, including Mickey, were always at the ready to answer individual questions and add tweaks that made the websites look custom.
Kristin is the consummate professional. From the get-​go, she was responsive to my exploratory emails and calls and then worked hard to ensure that all of the technical details of getting the site up and running were taken care of before class started. Once the design process began, she regularly checked in to make sure I was on track and happy with the progress.
I highly recommend Kristin and the MIGHTYminnow team, without any reservation! If you have the interest and dedication, the Website Weekend class is for you. If you want a web-​designer who is sharp, intuitive, creative, and efficient, I would hire MIGHTYminnow to do it all for you.

I highly recommend Kristin and MIGHTYminnow!
Kristin is brilliant, intuitive, creative, professional, and always a pleasure to work with. She is an amazing educator and has a special talent for empowering her students. I appreciate the fact that Kristin took a sincere interest in our family owned business, and made it possible for me to build a new website at an affordable cost. She was an incredible resource throughout the development and implementation phases, and her communication skills are top notch!
I met Kristin a couple years ago when taking a DreamWeaver class and have always been impressed with her website development work and teaching abilities. Therefore, I asked her for advice on building a new website for my family’s business and, as a result, am completely confident that having Kristin guide me was the best decision!
Kristin thoughtfully considered our small business objectives and budget, led me in the right direction, and was dedicated, supportive and professional at all times. MIGHTYminnow’s two day Website Weekend class allowed me to learn a great deal, walk away with a wealth of knowledge and new skills, and gain confidence for making enhancements and maintaining the website on my own.
Today we are completely satisfied with our new website (
) and our improved online presence. Thank you Kristin and MIGHTYminnow — this would not have been possible without you and your Website Weekend class!

I’m a manager at a small not-​for-​profit. We received a grant to have a complete website overhaul/​redesign, and a very short period in which to spend down the funding and show a finished product. We have very specific accessibility needs, because of the nature of our work, and who our consumers are. Kristin Long at Mighty Minnow has been wonderful to work with. The site she designed for us is beautiful, user-​friendly, and completely accessible. She’s been extremely flexible and understanding regarding our need to get an enormous amount of work done in a short period of time, and hasn’t just done well, but done an excellent job. I feel that Kristin has been determined to make sure we have the best and most professional site possible. Her level of professionalism is so far above what we were willing to settle for, given the time restraints attached to this project. I highly recommend Mighty Minnow — Kristin does beautiful work, is a very clear communicator, pays close attention to detail, provides great customer service, and is an excellent trainer, as well. Good to know that even a small not-​for-​profit can afford the best.

In a word: FANTASTIC!
From first contact all the way to project delivery, Kristin at MIGHTYminnow was an absolute pleasure to work with. Throughout the course of my interaction with Kristin, she was nothing but prompt, professional, and personable. Her work was great, and she displayed a great understanding of what I was looking to achieve right from the beginning.
I’ve worked with other developers in the past, and they were perfectly fine, but Kristin has a certain level of confidence that put me completely at ease during the entire process, which I personally think is a huge factor in creating a successful working partnership.
Moving forward, Kristin and MIGHTYminnow will be the first and only place I go to for development work!

All I can say is wow and thank goodness for someone like Kristin at MIGHTYminnow. I just started my own small business and needed a website to be put together. I decided to take a class here to build my site and help better understand how to maintain it in the future.
To be honest, I was a little intimidated because I went in not knowing too much. Kristen, my teacher, did an awsome job explaining, teaching, showing me and helping me put everything together. I was so impressed on how personable and helpful she was. I would recommend classes here to anyone wanting to expand their knowledge on basic web design.

MIGHTYminnow with Kristin at the helm is an amazing resource for business, nonprofits and individuals who either need to have a new website built or to have a website that is not working revamped into something that rocks in both a traditional web format and a mobile setting.
We used MIGHTYminnow to build our website
and could not have been more thrilled with the process and the result.
Kristin was patient while she helped us understand why our vision needed to be tweaked to transition from concept to reality and what pieces needed to be in place to allow us to grow and fully utilize our site.
Also, Kristin taught us how to maintain and change the content as
needed.
Kristin is knowledgeable, personable and she cares deeply about her clients.
Although our site is built so that we can maintain it, I look forward to the next time I get to work with Kristin.

Out of all the companies we work with, I rarely receive the lightening fast response and follow through that Kristin at MIGHTYminnow delivers.
Her attention to detailed direction and exact specifications has been truly inspiring.
Not only can she build your site efficiently but she will also educate about why it should be built in a certain manner and how to make routine changes to save on future billing hours.
The consistency of her communication and support has been invaluable to us. Our website content changes frequently and the complexity of those changes is handled in a very elegant manner. Our website always looks the way we imagine:
(The fact that she has consistently provided parenthetical tech support for a variety of issues has also been invaluable)

I could not be more satisfied with the website Kristin at MIGHTYMinnow created for me. She took what I had envisioned for the site and, using her expertise, came up with a final product that was even better than I had imagined. She was a joy to work with, responding to all my questions and suggestions quickly, patiently and with an attention to detail that made me feel like getting the site exactly the way I wanted was just as important to her as it was to me.

MIGHTYminnow was very generous to take us (
) on as their pro-​bono, non-​profit client. They have made such a gigantic difference in our operation. The website they created for us dramatically increased the number of dogs we are able to adopt to loving homes.
They are professional, knowledgeable, and very creative. Kristin, the President of Mm, is an amazing developer, teacher, and person. We can’t thank her enough for all the work she has done.
We recommend Mm wholeheartedly, and would be happy to provide a reference to anyone thinking of hiring them.

Kristin and the rest of the MIGHTYminnow team are amazing. I LOVE everything they do. They are always on time (even when I am not) and extremely easy to work with. I met Kristin when I took a dreamweaver class years ago and her work always stuck out in my mind. When it came time to redesign our website, we looked at a couple of other designers and I could not find any work that even compared to what MIGHTYminnow does. Since then, they have continued to help us improve our site and our blog and have also worked on our overall image including newsletters, letterhead and other print materials. I don’t what we would do with out Kristin and her team!

Kristin and her team were so incredibly awesome!
My business partner and I went back and forth with another developer, until I was so frustrated we threw in the towel. She took the idea, made the process simple, and had my site up and running in days.

I’ve used other web developers in the past and wouldn’t go back to them. But, Kristin of MightyMinnow is fabulous and I will definitely work with her again if I have the chance! Kristin is smart, detail oriented, quick with correspondence and accurate in her time estimates. She is willing to tell me that an idea is bad and won’t look good and she’ll offer a better idea. I highly recommend her. You can see what she did for me at

I have a consulting firm offering architecture services and training. Late in 2010 I finally launched my first website, and I wouldn’t have gotten anywhere without Kristin of MIGHTYminnow. With her vast knowledge of website construction she made the monumental (to me) effort of building my first website into an enjoyable, enriching and ultimately successful experience. Her support was unwavering and joyfully offered. She was always there to come to my rescue and help me to arrive at a place that was far beyond what I thought I could achieve at the start.
Without her help I would be saddled with a second– (or third– or
fourth-​) rate website. Thank you for everything, Kristin!
Melvin Hoagland,

So my business got sucked into the whole Flash trend in 2007 which now means that it is crazy expensive to update our website and people can’t fully access the website on smart phones. Not cool.
In comes, Mighty Minnow, whose specialty is designing websites in wordpress making it user friendly, easy to update, and technically savvy so that our social media campaign can correlate well with our website.
We had a meeting with Kristin to go over the scope of the project in detail. She took an hour with us to go over their process and explain our different options for working with them.
She was amazingly knowledgeable, professional, concise… She knows her stuff, and her other projects she has done were really well designed and executed. She is also willing to help train our staff to learn to update our new website.
Now we just need to get started… so I will update you once the project is done.

Kristin/​MIGHTYminnow is the best! She is fast, smart as heck, stays on top of what is happening, consistent, available, and gets things done! I highly recommend her to anyone wanting a website build, or improved, etc… She is my go-​to web guru for The FruitGuys website and we love working with her. Can’t say enough good things about Kristin’s work. And she is personable and friendly to collaborate with. If you choose to work with her, you will be happy you did.

I met Kristin when I took a CSS class that she was teaching. She was thorough and patient and very approachable. She was even available after the completion of the class and I ended up hiring her to build a website for one of my business project. The site was a success, a pleasure to work on with her and brought us much business. I would highly recommend Mighty Minnow for both web development and web development instruction.