Why hire Tilted Chair to design and build your website?

No templates. No shortcuts. No developer-first thinking.

Most “web design” firms start with tools like templates, builders, and pre-made components.

That’s not how we work.

Tilted Chair approaches every project as a strategy-led, design-driven engagement. We start by understanding your brand, your users, and your business goals, then design a completely custom digital experience built specifically for you.

Every interface, interaction, and animation is intentionally crafted, not pulled from a library.

Once the design is right, our team brings it to life through a fully custom build that matches the experience exactly as envisioned.

The result is a custom website designed to perform, scale, and differentiate your brand.

A cleaner build leads to a better-performing website

Many websites rely on layers of third-party plugins, tools, and shortcuts to function. While that can speed up initial development, it often leads to slower performance, ongoing maintenance issues, and unnecessary complexity over time.

Tilted Chair takes a more intentional approach.

We build custom websites with a lean, purpose-built technology stack, only introducing external tools when they truly add value. The goal is to reduce bloat, improve performance, and create a site that’s easier to maintain and scale as your business grows.

The result is a website that runs cleaner, loads faster, and holds up over time without the hidden fragility that often comes with heavily plugin-dependent builds.

Performance that supports growth, not just speed

Fast load times aren’t just technical wins, they directly impact user experience, engagement, and conversion. We’ll let the results speak for themselves:

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WordPress
Development

We’re WordPress natives who build custom themes from the ground, up. With minimal reliance on plugins, well-structured data, and small page sizes, our WordPress websites get your brand and your message in front of your prospects quickly and convincingly.

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Shopify
Development

Looking to sell online on the world’s largest e-commerce website platform? Partner up with Tilted Chair, a Shopify design and development partner that’s built custom Shopify themes driving millions of dollars of revenue for clients like Southside Market & Barbeque and PSUDO.

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Webflow
Development

It’s the 21st century, and Webflow is no longer the future—it’s the now. Tilted Chair has brought its WordPress and Shopify design and development experience to the web’s hottest new platform Webflow. We build systematized and engrossing websites on Webflow that leave web users in awe.

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The tools of the trade

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In case you’ve been asleep for the last three years, web has come a long way. We’d be remiss if we didn’t mention Relume, an incredibly powerful tool across every aspect of a project: information architecture, design, and—when working in Webflow—even code.

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See ya later, Adobe! Figma is our design software of choice. In combination with Relume, it’s the world’s most powerful interface design tool. It mimics code nearly one-to-one, and allows for pixel-perfect design, every time.

Web Design

Maybe no deliverable is more essential to supporting the marketing objectives of a great, human brand than a beautiful website. Tilted Chair has been designing attention-grabbing websites since our agency’s inception. We collaborate with our clients through our carefully developed web process to arrive at beautiful, useable web solutions that are easy-to-navigate, responsive, and on-brand.

We rigidly follow a rule of “Design follows content,” meaning content strategy, and the website’s content itself—has to be completely ironed out before we start pushing pixels.

This results in web experiences where content has been unleashed by design rather than restrained by it.

Web Development

Coincidentally, we’re also development natives who know a thing or two about translating that beautiful markup layer into a fully functioning, database-driven website that’s as easy to manage as it is beautiful. WordPress is our CMS of choice, but we also have a great deal of experience modifying Squarespace and Shopify themes when needed. The bottom line? If it can be dreamed up, Tilted Chair can deliver the code to make it happen.

Our code is clean, minimal, scalable, and above all, fast. Meaning new pages, experiences, and products can be spun up quickly and with as little headache as possible.

We train customers on our page builder so that once we launch, they have all the knowledge and confidence needed to maintain, edit, and collaborate on their website’s content.

High praise for our efforts

Fantastic experience with Tilted Chair from beginning to end. Everyone on this team was professional and helpful in navigating us through a rebranding of our company. We were able to build an entirely new website and a solid catalogue of brand assets thanks to their guidance. Great group of people!

- Hilary Gordon

They rebuilt our website, set up a system for us to generate content and gave us the tools to stay in business. Not just stay in business - to sell more tickets than the franchises. The people we worked with at Tilted Chair were exceptional and quickly turned our business around.

- Jeanine Plumer

Tilted Chair did an exceptional job revamping our company website and making it not only user friendly, but also addressing many different areas we wanted to focus on in a comprehensive, beautiful, and sleek website. They also created a cutting edge logo for our business. Tilted Chair staff was responsive, professional, attentive and detail oriented. They kept us updated throughout the entire process. I cannot recommend them enough!

- Sufi Harari

I worked with the Tilted Chair team on a massive rebrand and website project, and I cannot express how fantastic the team was to work with. Not only are we thrilled with our final product, but the entire process was truly unlike any other rebrand I have experienced. They do a lot of great research and ensure to implement that research into your design and vision. Special out to Jamie Rodriguez for always going above and beyond!

- Philip Lane

New website looks great! The team at Tilted Chair not only demonstrated exceptional technical expertise, but also a keen understanding of our brand and vision. Their approach to design is both innovative and user-friendly, ensuring a seamless browsing experience. Highly recommend to anyone seeking a top-notch digital solution!

- Yosef Tahbazof

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