About Ryan Gravador

Ryan Gravador is owner and WordPress web designer for ThatsGravy Designs. Based in San Diego, CA, we provide web and graphic design, tech support, and assistance on a regular basis for local businesses. See our page at Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Our goal is to save you time and money, offering affordable solutions toward establishing your online presence piece by piece. - by Ryan Gravador

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Here are my most recent posts

How-To Test Your HTML Code Quickly!

We’ve all had the frustrating experience of trying to edit HTML code and it not showing EXACTLY the way we want it. Well here’s a great online resource without worrying about expensive HTML editing software. This is useful for:

  • Email Campaigns
  • Web Page Layout and Modifications
  • Craigslist Ads
  • Quick editing to see what the final result will be!

Real-Time HTML Editor

real-time html editor online

I hope this helps and saves you time! Enjoy! Feel free to share other resources that you’ve found. It would definitely save the headache.

Top 3 I’m Thankful for…

Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and I would like to share what my top three reasons to be thankful for are. Thank you for allowing me to share this with you, and feel free to share what your top three are!

  1. Family & Friends.
  2. Laughing.
  3. Having a Job.

For my wonderful and beautiful wife, she’s amazing and I’m grateful to have her in my life. My brothers and step-dad, my mom, whose the most bravest and strongest woman I’ve ever known, and of course my father, a Navy Veteran. Without my dad I wouldn’t have been able to go to college and work in the creative arena.

sofie and friends
For my friends. You already know. heeheehee. I love you guys and gals.

For what we deal with on a regular basis in this world, laughing is the best medicine.

I’m grateful to have a job, applying my college degree, making businesses grow, and learning and enhancing my craft every single day.

I wish you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving!

ryan and friends

9/11 We’ll Never Forget.

I’ll never forget.

I’ll never forget my dorm room that morning and my roommates had the TV on. We were like, “what IS this?!” and right away I felt this deep sinking feeling in the bottom of my stomach. This was real.

As we realized the intensity and hearing the distress of the news casters we just stood there, motionless. The usual busyness of a dorm hallway, the rustle and bustle, the normal goings about of students frantically making it to class…all still, all quiet. There were to be no classes that day.

Everything that was normal, wasn’t anymore.

As we solemnly celebrate the lives and the heroes of the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11th, may we never forget the lives lost not just on that day, but in the wars that followed, of all those that sacrificed their lives.

Thank you to the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces, thank you to the city of New York, the fire and police departments, and thank you to the families of the loved ones lost, for being an example of being strong in our time of tragedy and crisis.

At SDSU, my graphic design illustration course challenged us to share our designs about 9/11. Below are a couple of my designs.
911 ZOONOOZ Magazine Cover by Ryan Gravador 911 Editorial Design by Ryan Gravador
 San Diego ZOONOOZ Magazine Cover  Editorial Design based on a story about hope and keeping it alive.

Web Browsing in the Office…BUSTED? Nope. Huge Benefit? YES!

“According to a new study, Web browsing can actually refresh tired workers and enhance their productivity, compared to other activities such as making personal calls, texts or emails, let alone working straight through with no rest at all.” – RACHEL EMMA SILVERMAN | Read Original Post

This study is awesome. While I’m working: on web and graphic designs, CSS and code, troubleshooting, or just catching up on reading and replying to emails (and I mean A LOT of emails!), I noticed that by taking breaks surfing the web is actually refreshing.

“When browsing the Internet, people ‘usually choose to visit only the sites that they like—it’s like going for a coffee or snack break. Breaks of such nature are pleasurable, rejuvenating the Web surfer…’ wrote Dr. Lim” – Read Original Post

Heck, it sure beats clanging bells and blaring music! (alright you, now get back to work!)

New Websites Launched!

ThatsGravy Designs launches two new websites!

website design for local musician website information design
AlyssaJacey.com BlindTigerCocktails.com
Singer/Songwriter Cocktail Company
Musician/Blog Website Design Informational Website Design

 

Each client has access to edit and update the content of their website. The hosting option of the former client is with GoDaddy and the latter with ThatsGravy Designs. Both utilizing WordPress as their content management system.

We are proud to launch these website designs with many more to come!

Design TIP: Websites will always be a “work in progress” and if you get lost in the midst of it all, remember that your ultimate goal is to communicate effectively with your targeted audience.

Recommendations

"Ryan is a talented and capable developer with a knack for tackling usability challenges and an eye for modern design. Highly collaborative and insightful, working with him on SDSU's large scale redesign was a pleasure - and I looked forward to addressing challenges as they came our way.

Ryan's feedback and good-nature make him easy to work with, and I appreciated his ability to convey technical constraints and help guide efficient component design.

He is a developer who easily wears many hats, and anybody can look forward to working with him in the future."
Phil
UX
MyCase
"Ryan has an incredible talent for understanding a client and then translating that into a design that coherently accentuates them. His attention to detail and tenacity for great, effective and relevant design is impressive."
Kimberly
Executive Account Manager
Z57 Internet Solutions
"Ryan is very passionate, very talented and gets his work done efficiently. He is always there to help and never complains when things get hectic. He is a pleasure to work with which makes him a great asset to any work environment.

Any individual or company would be extremely blessed to have a hard worker like Ryan on their team! I don't even know where I would be without his help day in and day out at work! :)"
Lisa
Internet Marketing Consultant
Z57 Internet Solutions