Agencies, marketing teams developers, & business owners

Get Your Web Project Off Your Plate.

Custom WordPress Web Design for Businesses That Need Their Website to Do More

Finish Your Web Project

WordPress • UX/UI • Web Design • Development • Production

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Custom WordPress Web Design for Businesses That Are Ready to Get to the Next-Level

Website

Development

Custom WordPress Web Design for Businesses That Need Their Website to Do More

Branding

Identity

Brand Design for Businesses That Want to Stand Out and Reflect Their Values

You have the client. You have the project.

You don't necessarily want to spend your time designing every page, building every template, wrestling with WordPress, or making sure every little detail works across devices.

That's where I come in.

Fat Dog Creatives is your freelance web design and WordPress production partner—handling the work that needs to get done so you can stay focused on the work only you can do.

You don't need another person to manage.

You need someone who can take ownership.

I work with marketing agencies, communications teams, and WordPress developers who need an experienced web partner they can bring into a project and trust to move it forward. I can build the WordPress site or work within the system your development team has established. When I see something that could cause trouble later, I'll tell you. It’s not that I enjoy making more work but I do enjoy solving the right problem now than explaining the expensive problem later.

What I Can Own

Design
WordPress Production
Project Support

That's my lane.

rhonda negard

How I Help

Free Up Your Internal Team

Let developers develop.

Your lead developer shouldn't have to spend a Tuesday afternoon nudging a heading 12 pixels to the left.

Your agency's senior people shouldn't be stuck in WordPress production when they could be doing higher-value work.

Bring me in to own the web design and production work—from page layouts and responsive design to WordPress builds, content structures, templates, and the details that make a site actually work.

You keep the work only you can do.
I take care of the work you don't need to do yourself.

Turn Complexity Into Structure

See the problem at its roots.

A website project rarely stays simple.

  • New content gets added.
  • Services change/products multiply.
  • The client wants another type of resource or landing page.
  • The content doesn't fit the original design anymore.

I exam how the content, users, technology, brand, and business requirements fit together—then build a structure that can handle what the website needs to become with:

  • Custom post types, taxonomies, fields
  • Dynamic templates
  • Structured content
  • Responsive page systems
  • UX and information architecture
  • Forms and workflows

The goal is to make the backend of the website easier to use, maintain, and grow.

Make Websites Easier to Live With

Easy handoffs; No Warning Labels.

Your client shouldn't need a design degree to add a new service.

They shouldn't have to duplicate an old page and hope they didn't break anything.

They shouldn't call your developer every time they need to update a product, staff member, case study, resource, or event.

I build systems that separate **content from presentation** so the people maintaining the site can focus on the information—not how to make it look right.

**Form in. Structure out.**

That's how a website starts pulling its weight.

The Part Where I Tell You What I See...

Sometimes, I look at a project and say:

I think we're solving the wrong problem.

What happens when they have 50 of these?

There's something missing here.

I'm not interested in being right for the sake of being right. I'm interested in finding the thing that makes the project work.

I tend to look for:
  • The root cause instead of the symptom.
  • The user's experience instead of the creator's assumptions.
  • The downstream consequence instead of just today's deadline.
  • The reason behind the rule instead of the rule itself.
And if I'm missing something?
  • Tell me.
    I genuinely want to know because getting the project right matters more to me than being right.
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I've Worked on the Other Side of the Handoff.

I've spent more than a decade working independently with agencies, developers, communications teams, and organizations.

So I understand what you need from a freelance partner:

  • Good work.
  • Good communication.
  • Reasonable questions.
  • Fewer surprises.
  • And someone who actually finishes things.

I don't need to become part of your org chart. I need to understand the project, do my part well, communicate what you need to know, and hand you something you can be proud to put in front of your client.

Award-Winning Website design and development

A Few Things I've Built

Aphrodite Divine Confections

A sophisticated B2B product catalog for a national dessert manufacturer with products available in multiple sizes and configurations, technical specifications, instructions, documentation, and more.

Custom content architecture + UX/UI + WordPress development

2025 HERMES Platinum — Overall Web Design

Over the Top Cake Supplies

A product-focused website with recipes, classes, products, and multiple types of content that needed to work together without becoming a maintenance nightmare.

Custom content architecture + dynamic templates + WordPress development

2024 HERMES Platinum — Overall Web Design

More Than Pretty Screens

I've built websites for:

  • financial services,
  • nonprofits,
  • food manufacturers,
  • communications firms,
  • construction-related organizations, and
  • other businesses

with more complicated needs than a five-page brochure site.

rhonda negard

What Working With Me Looks Like

What Working With Me Looks Like

You bring me the project.

Give me the brief, the designs, the mess, the requirements—or whatever you've got.

We figure out what needs to happen.

I'll ask questions, dig into the content and requirements, and identify anything that could affect the project.

I build the thing.

Design, WordPress production, content structure, templates, responsive behavior, functionality, testing.

You get a partner—not another project to manage.

I'll communicate, flag issues, make decisions within the scope you've given me, and tell you when something needs your attention.

WordPress Web Design • UX/UI • Development • Production

Ready to Get This Off Your Plate?

If you've got a WordPress project that needs design, production, structure, or all three, let's talk. Tell me what you're working on, where you're stuck, and what you'd rather be doing instead. I'll take a look.

Websites that pull their weight and work like a dog.