When DKT Yacht Services asked us to create a website for their business, we started by discussing their needs -- for a simple brochure site with a blog and with strong SEO.
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Design Excellence
Clear, effective design is essential to communicating your message and achieving real results. Visitors notice the difference—and respond to it.
Effective Messaging
The right words move people to act. We craft and refine content that is clear, purposeful, and aligned with your goals—whether starting fresh or improving what you have.
Award Winning Photography
Strong visuals are essential in today’s media landscape. Our award-winning photography helps your brand stand out, and we also source high-quality stock imagery when needed.
Content Management & Structure
A well-structured website is easier to use, easier to manage, and far more effective in search. We organize content so visitors can find what they need, and your team can maintain and grow the site with confidence. Whatever platform used, we build systems that support your content over time.
SEO & Analytics
Search visibility is critical for most organizations. We build SEO into the foundation of your site—from content structure and metadata to backlinks and search engine submission—then measure performance with analytics.
The Right Technology for Each Project
With broad technical expertise, we choose the right platform for your needs. From flexible CMS frameworks like Drupal to WordPress, Shopify, Wix, and advanced builds with Next.js/React—we match the technology to your content, goals, and long-term needs.
Websites for San Francisco Bay Area Small Businesses & Nonprofits
We love to work locally. The ability to meet in person is an essential part of building trust, and building great products. The Bay Area has some of the most amazing companies and organizations in the world, and we feel lucky to be able to serve this community.
We support local non-profits, and occasionaly take on pro-bono work.
Bay Design did a fantastic job with our website redesign! Louis was great to work with. His design recommendations were excellent and his technical expertise was fantastic! The result was a dramatically better look and feel, and a much stronger information management structure. I wholeheartedly recommend Bay design!
Leigh Hunt
President & CEO, Modern Sailing School
I’ve always appreciated working with Bay Design on both the Summer Sailstice and Latitude 38 websites. Louis's creative, careful and competent management of sites helps create both reliable and effective results.
John Arndt
Publisher, Latitude 38
Bay Design has greatly improved my organization’s public profile on a tight budget. Louis has created an attractive website that I can update myself. He has helped me market my organization effectively through Facebook and an electronic newsletter. Plus he is very easy and pleasant to work with.
Nancy Rader
Executive Director, CalWEA
The outcome of our website redesign was far beyond our expectations, and we are seeing great results! Louis has an ability to be both efficient and realistic in his approach, developing a high quality, intelligent product.
Lee D. Stimmel
President, Stimmel, Stimmel & Smith
Louis is a great designer. We have worked with him for over 10 years, and our newest website design is very effective, as well as easy to use.
Anto Cingoz
Owner, Anto Printing
Our Startup, Re-Docs, provides a web-based service that consolidates and summarizes masses of medical records. Louis has headed our product development team for the last year. His energy, creativity and leadership have been essential to the growth of the company. There is no doubt that by any technical industry metric, Louis is a rockstar.
Dr. Adam Duhan
CEO, Re-Docs
Our goal was to have a visually compelling and easily accessible site to serve our members and the community of sailors at large. Working with Bay Design, we were able to deliver a great looking site with our public reference materials easily found. Our members have been very complimentary of the sleek modern look and functionality.
Michael Moradzadeh
Webmaster, Cruising Club of America
Louis was easy to work with in executing my vision for the website for our small law firm. I knew nothing about creating a website before coming to Louis and he is patient and takes the time to walk me through the editing process. I continue to contact him regularly with new ideas for the site or new content and he helps me make practical decisions. I strongly recommend working with him!
Lauren Meisel
Attorney
We built Tide Tracker in part to test a new generation of AI coding and project management tools. We also wanted to show that using a tide app doesn’t have to be complicated.
Meisel Law Group is not your average personal injury law firm. Their high level of success is due to the sophistication of both their team, and of their approach.
We're happy to announce the launch of our latest project, a new website for the Pacific Cup, the Fun Race from San Francisco to Hawaii.
When Berkeley Marine Center wanted a more professional design, clearer marketing message, and improved functionality on their website, they turned to us, and we were happy to take on the challenge
Blue Water Foundation is a non-profit organization that has introduced the joys and challenges of sailing to thousands of Bay Area young people -- many of them disadvantaged and at risk.
Cruising Club of America is a virtual yacht club of highly accomplished sailors, with chapters throughout the US and beyond.
Sailing photography by Bay Design's Louis Benainous is on permanent display at Berkeley Yacht Club (BYC). The display feature seven images of sailing scenes around San Francisco Bay.
CaWEA is a non-profit organization that supports the wind energy industry.
We love Drupal, but when Industrial Drayage needed a new website, one without complex functionality, we turned to Wordpress for the best value in creating beautiful custom sites.
Stimmel, Stimmel & Smith is a well-established San Francisco law firm that recognized early on that people would be seeking legal information on the internet.
