Okeedoke Studios is a Cincinnati, Ohio web design firm dedicated to excellence in creativity. We specialize in web design, graphic design, audio production and video production.

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"Don’t fall for the okeedoke!"

I was a high school freshman when a motivational speaker said these words, and the phrase soon caught on in the theater department.

We produced a lot of shows each year, and had a very limited budget, so the sets weren’t always perfect. Show after show, we would "fall for the okeedoke," as our sets weren’t quite up to professional standards. The pinnacle of the phrase occurred in our version of "Pirates of Penzance," where we named our massive half-ship the "U.S.S. Okeedoke."

It was mediocrity displayed proudly.

I grew up in a Christian bookstore, heavily entrenched in the commercial Christian sub-culture: contemporary Christian music, Christian videos, Christian T-shirts, Christian video games and Precious Moments™ figurines. I spent my life fighting for this culture, defending it constantly. I wore the shirts, watched the videos, played the games and listened to the music. The defense was always the same: it’s almost as good as the secular counterpart.

I ultimately became frustrated. Why was everything in the Christian industry so far below the secular standard? Shouldn’t we be producing the most creative, influential works of art? Since our God created everything, shouldn’t we worship our Father by being creative ourselves?

At one time, the Church led the artistic community. Michelangelo. Bach. Handel. These artists served the Church and glorified God through their high standards of excellence. When did the Church become an imitator, rather than an originator of creative expression?

Okeedoke seeks to redefine Christian multimedia.

By redefining Christian multimedia, we also seek to redefine the term “okeedoke.” We believe Okeedoke will one day bring to mind the best art the creative world has to offer, completely transforming what people currently think of as “Christian” movies, music and design. We’re excited about the journey, and hope that you’ll enjoy being a part of it.

Web Design is intimidating.

There are hundreds of different development languages and technologies involved, crossing over different browsers and platforms. There are design, accessibility and security issues, each requiring their own expertise. Design costs range from zero to millions of dollars for a single website. To get started, many people take the cheap route: ask a volunteer to develop the site, or purchase a site template.

Asking a volunteer to design your site saves money upfront, but typically results in a mediocre website or no site at all. The volunteer can’t afford the massive time commitment of designing and maintaining a quality site.

Furthermore, this situation creates unnecessary tension. What if the finished site looks terrible, and doesn’t work? It’s not fair to berate your selfless volunteer, who poured countless hours into creating the best site they could produce with the little free time they had.

The template route is a little better, because it’s easy to change and there’s no one to blame. You can buy one pretty cheap and be live within hours, but they all look the same. There’s no way to customize or add important features that will drive visitors to your site.

Your website is the most important part of your organization’s image.

It is the port of entry, information hub, media center and storefront rolled into one essential experience, easily accessible by the entire planet. People will associate the level of quality of your website design with the quality of your church or organization.

Your interest in Okeedoke shows that you are ready to take your site to the next level. You want to stand out. You want to attract new visitors, and keep them intrigued to come back again and again. You want a brilliant, unique experience that propels your entire organization into an era of unprecedented growth. You want a site that works.

And it doesn’t hurt if it looks good.

Many web design firms base their fees on the number of pages, which doesn’t make sense if every page has the same layout. At Okeedoke, what you pay for is the overall design experience, regardless of the amount of pages. We’ve developed a package-based system to meet your specific needs.

Our essential package includes:

Comprehensive Site Consultation

The design process can be complicated, but we make it easy. We’ll take you through each step to make sure your site comes out the best it can possibly be. We offer full support and consultation all the way up to your site’s launch date.

Navigation Design

Your site’s navigation needs to be simple, fast and enjoyable. Whether it’s a simple menu, list or random collection of photos, we’ll design the navigation that best works for you.

Graphic Design

Many web design firms do not specialize in graphic design, so they’ll either ask you to provide your own, charge you a great deal extra, or the worst offense of all–use clip art. We offer world-class graphic design for your entire site, all included in the essential package.

Site Hosting

You may already have a domain name (i.e. www.okeedoke.com), but you may not have a place to store your files. We take care of the first year for you, including as many email addresses and as much storage as you can handle. If you don’t have a domain name, we’ll take care of that as well.

Search Engine Optimization

85% of websites are found through search engines, such as Yahoo! or Google. We use embedded keywords and statistics to keep moving your site up, until it’s on the top of the list.

Exhaustive Site Testing

No matter what browser, computer or user, your site needs to work perfectly. We test our sites on every major browser and operating system to be sure there aren’t any bugs keeping your visitors away.

Custom Flash Design

Flash is a unique development tool which creates extremely fast-loading vector-based animation, graphics and video for use on the web. Flash movies require the Adobe Flash Player, which currently is installed by 99% of all internet users in the US. Flash allows us to create anything we can imagine. Several of our sites are created completely in Flash, but most often, we will only design one component of the site in Flash. Some of our recent Flash projects include:

Custom Development

We offer full PHP/MySQL development for any job, no matter how large or small. This combination of code and database allows us to create all kinds of useful, interactive services for your clients. Some of our recent developments include:

Content Management Systems

While we offer full-service maintenance and support plans, we also realize that sometimes you want to have full control over the content of your site. We develop custom systems which allow you to instantly update anything on your site from any computer in the world, without the need for special software.

Shopping Cart Systems

Need to sell things online? Many web design firms will use a pre-existing shopping cart system that makes users feel they’ve somehow left your original site. We’ve got the expertise to create a secure, easy-to-manage system that has the same look and easy-to-use feel of the rest of your site.

Portfolio

Legend Community Church

Using one of the coolest names for a church ever, Legend Community Church is our latest project, packed with user-created goodness. Everything on the site is fully controlled by Super Awesome Pastor #1 and Super Terrific Pastor #2, and it even transfers their bloggity-blog-blog Blogger Blog to the site, along with their full catalog of YouTube videos. You really have to go see it for yourself to believe it...

First Church of Christ (Xenia, OH)

First Church of Christ in Xenia, Ohio. It's setup with what we call the Okeedoke Content Management 'N Editing System, or OCMNES (pronounced 'Awesomeness'). This means that anyone the church deems worthy can edit the site, or just a page, or they could even just let one lady in the back handle the calendar and not have to worry about everything crashing when she tries to upload a massive virus to the site. Because she can't. She's just the calendar girl. Hey. You know what I mean.

Daniel Smyth Photography

This is our friend Daniel Smyth's website, full of beautiful photos and general tastiness. Daniel likes stories and the word 'imbibe,' so we get along just fine.

Legend Community Church

Chad called us up one Friday and asked, 'Can we have a website up by Sunday morning?' We said, 'Sure.' Yeah, we're crazy like that. It's not the course we'd recommend for everyone, but we think it turned out okay. Sleep is overrated.

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