Website consulting

Consulting projects, workshops, and professional development with Blustery Day Design

When you think about your website, are you feeling stagnant? Or are you facing a complicated situation that needs unraveling? When you find yourself with more questions than answers, we can help.

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Blustery Day Design is a women-owned design & development studio consisting of sisters Jessica Yaeger and Christina Blust. With our decades of professional experience and wide-ranging skillsets, we specialize in effective, authentic, and strategic website-related projects for good people doing good things.

Our approach

Consulting is part of everything we do, because we know that projects that consider the big picture and start with strategy are much more likely to succeed. We’ve brought our expertise and clarity to hundreds of people & organizations via:

Website consulting projects to help you assess and understand your needs before embarking on a website build — so you can feel confident you’re heading in the right direction
Workshops & professional development that breathe new life into your work and your team
Website projects where Jessica and Christina guide you with expertise and clear milestones each step of the way
Post-launch consulting with folks who have completed a website project with us — talking through new ideas, addressing new feature needs, and tackling tricky situations that arise

Whatever the scope of your needs, Jessica & Christina bring their warmth, compassion, empathy, and justice-minded expertise to their time with your team. Learn more about Blustery Day Design.

“Christina and Jessica were our perfect partner, guide, teacher and companion.”
Cheryl W.
Communications Director, Adorers of the Blood of Christ

Topics of expertise

Assessing your website landscape and helping you strategize an intentional path forward
Content strategy foundations that consider your audience, goals, and values
How your website can represent you well and elevate your work
Website best practices
Website accessibility & inclusion
Site architecture & organizing your content
User-focused site navigation
Tips for writing for the web
Incorporating testimonials & social proof into your website and other materials
Optimizing the online presentation of your print magazine and publication content
Version thinking: iterating & growing your site, one step at a time
Utilizing forms to maximize administrative efficiency and ease of use for site visitors
Website content inventories & audits
Setting up content maintenance schedules
Using color and typography effectively and accessibly online
Justice issues related to websites, including ecological considerations, social justice, and user privacy
Ethical website analytics
Understanding your organization in the Wiki-verse (Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata)
Bringing authenticity & empathy to your website

Website discovery consulting

Do you know you need a new website, but feel totally lost on how to move forward? Is your organization in a time of transition, or facing new realities that require a re-assessment of your online presence? With a website discovery project, we can work with you to look at the big picture and clarify a path forward. Every website consulting project is:

Collaborative

We don’t force you into a cookie-cutter process, a chatbot-generated template, or a one-size-fits-all box. We actually listen to you — what you need, where you’re stuck, and what you’re hoping for. And we ask the right questions to help get you thinking in new ways.

Grounded in experience

You can feel confident that our expert guidance is both grounded in our extensive experience with clients and also informed by current industry & technological best practices.

Comprehensive

We know how important it is to get this right for you. Your website consulting project may include analysis, guided conversations, survey creation, and/or helpful reports written by Jessica and Christina (not an AI tool).

Clarifying

By the end of the consulting project together, you will have a clearer vision of what comes next. Maybe that’s a website project with Blustery Day Design, or maybe it’s something else — you hold the reins.

Workshops & professional development

Does your communications team need some inspiration? Or are you a “team of one” who’d like to talk through a website topic with an expert? Blustery Day Design can lead you through a workshop, do a mini-assessment, or help you strategize a specific initiative.

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Workshops

In these hands-on sessions, Jessica & Christina can walk you through guided conversation and strategic exercises designed to provide clarity and generate ideas. We bring years of experience working with teams of all sizes — and we’ll cater the workshop to your specific needs.

Training & presentations

Professional development sessions are great to get your wheels turning! Pick a specific topic or two, and we can teach you best practices, share examples, answer questions, and leave you feeling inspired & more knowledgeable.

Some of our website consulting & professional development clients

Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods

Adorers of the Blood of Christ, United States Region

Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica

“I have worked with Blustery Day Design on three major projects, and each time they have found thoughtful, effective solutions to our stickiest problems.”
Kim W.
Communications Director, Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet

“Blustery Day Design are phenomenal. They took a systematic approach that guided me through every phase. They are flexible, creative, beyond helpful, and know their stuff.”
Heather H.
Teacher and writer

“Jessica and Christina were a wonderful part of our annual conference and their sessions were well-received by our members. Post-event surveys noted both their content and delivery as exceptional. Our members especially appreciated the blend of practical tools and examples; items that attendees felt applied to their situation and that they could actually implement. Several members stated that the Blustery Day Design team were extremely knowledgeable and provided a lot of information in an informative, yet humorous way that was easy to comprehend and embrace.”
Ginny H.
Executive Director, Communicators for Women Religious

“Jessica and Christina have a wealth of experience, and after working with them a short time, I found them very easy to trust. They are thorough, thoughtful, extremely organized and fun too! Their communication throughout the entire process – and afterward – has been excellent.”
Caroline M.
Manager of Donor Relations, Felician Sisters of North America

“Hands down, BDD is the best team with whom I’ve had the opportunity to work. Jessica and Christina are amazing! They are brilliant, creative and thorough, and ask the best questions to really understand the scope and purpose of what we need, while always being mindful of the best fit for our users and our budget. They are creative problem solvers extraordinaire, and it’s simply a joy to work with them.”
Rebecca H.
Webmaestra, Loretto Community

“Blustery Day Design far exceeded any expectations that I could have had. Not coming from the communications or marketing field, my colleagues and I learned a great deal about the development and design process, and maintenance of a successful site. Blustery Day Design empowers their clients to be learners and doers in their own journey.”
Cara M.
Executive Director, St. Joseph Educational Ministries

“Working with Christina and Jessica is like engaging in an independent study into website design. The natural and inviting manner in which they engaged us as a client not only allowed them to build a site that truly embodies the spirit of our organization, but they taught us along the way. I am walking away not only with an entire toolkit of resources to guide me in maintaining the site, but with the confidence to do so as well!”
Sara P. M.
Executive Director, Franciscan Federation

“Jessica was encouraging yet helped me stay on task – nice combination again, for people like me who prefer to spend time in their heads thinking about their work, but never taking time to really sit down and articulate their passion.”
Katherine H.
Owner, Ravel Studio Pilates

What do you need?

Your website deserves strategy and care. We’d love to hear more from you and share how a Blustery Day Design consulting project or workshop can help.

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An education mindset

Guidance and education are a key part of our approach, no matter what type of project you work with us for. It is important to us to empower people to feel more capable of working towards their goals and reaching success. Our clients tell us they appreciate how we make complicated things clearer and less intimidating.

“Blustery Day Design far exceeded any expectations that I could have had. Not coming from the communications or marketing field, my colleagues and I learned a great deal about the development and design process, and maintenance of a successful site. Blustery Day Design empowers their clients to be learners and doers in their own journey. I feel confident and excited for the future of our website as it continues to play a crucial role in the success of our organization.”
Cara M.
Executive Director, St. Joseph Educational Ministries