Twenty years of building brands, businesses, and the software that runs them.
Helping brands, businesses, and creatives build meaningful experiences—from coffee to code, and everything in between.
Helping brands, businesses, and creatives build meaningful experiences—from coffee to code, and everything in between.
I’m Carlos—a designer-turned-developer, photographer, and business owner rooted in Lafayette, Louisiana. My journey started in church media over 20 years ago and has since grown into a multi-faceted career that spans web and app development, branding, photography, and hospitality. I currently serve as COO and full-stack developer at Accolades I.T., and own several ventures including Ohh Snap Booth, Java Square Café, and Carlos + Ashley Photography. I’m also on staff at Our Savior’s Church, coordinating missions for our campus and serving in kids ministry—the same church where my creative career started. I’m passionate about using design and technology to help others tell their story—and I love coffee enough to roast and serve it daily. Let’s build something that lasts.
Websites, brands, and applications built for real businesses — most of them still running today.
Branding and a full-stack coaching platform for Defy, a Lafayette fitness coaching bran...
Website design, development, and ongoing maintenance for The Vendor Edit — a polished, ...
Brand identity, website and online ordering for Java Square Cafe in Opelousas, Louisian...
Brand identity and website for Ohh Snap! Photo Booth Rentals, a modern alternative to t...
Website design, development and e-commerce for Living Proof Coaching — a warm, credible...
A calm, trustworthy website for Brown Counseling — designed and built to help prospecti...
Four ways in. Most projects end up being two or three of them at once.
Four steps, the same on a one-page site and a full platform. The scale changes; the order does not.
STEP 1
Before anything gets designed, we settle what the site is for and who it has to work for. Most of the bad decisions further along trace back to skipping this.
STEP 2
Layout, type and imagery built for the job at hand rather than dropped into a template. You see it and push back before a line of code exists.
STEP 3
Fast, accessible, and structured so the content is data rather than markup. That is what makes it editable later without me.
STEP 4
You get something you can run yourself, and I am still here when it needs to change. A good number of these sites I have maintained for years.
Occasional writing on design, code, coffee, and the businesses in between.
Your logo is not the first thing people judge. Your email address is. How to put one on your own domain, what to put before the @, and why aliases ...
Specs are not maintenance. Why a tricked-out Mac still bogs down over time, and the single tool I keep on every machine I work on to stop it happen...
Eight places in Acadiana worth booking a session at, what the light does at each one, and the time of day that actually works. From a Lafayette pho...
Have a project in mind, or just want to say hello? Tell me what you are building.
Freelance and contract work
Based in Lafayette, working anywhere
