Chunky Squirrel

12/04/2025

Serious website business with not-that-serious people 😅.
This sums up Chunky Squirrel in a nutshell. (I couldn’t help myself 🐿️)

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10/31/2025

As the veil grows thin, the spirits draw near. But the ghost of SEO is always here. 😅

10/23/2025

Live’s too short to not have fun!

10/02/2025

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09/29/2025

If you've been following us for a while, you might know we're slooowly building our own cabin in the woods during weekends/evenings on occasional trips. 🙂 Here are some parallels I've found between cabin building and website design!

1. Everything starts with a plan
Before picking paint colours or wood finishes (aka “the pretty stuff”), you need a solid purpose. Same with website! What do you want your site to do for you? What are your business goals, and how can your website help make them happen?

2. Build on a solid foundation
If you want people to find you online, you’ll want to start with SEO research before you design anything. And make sure your site focuses on services or products you still want to offer. You’d be surprised how many sites list stuff the business doesn’t even do anymore.

3. Pretty is great, but function comes first
You wouldn’t buy curtains before knowing your window sizes. The same goes for websites: don’t jump into graphic design until you’ve nailed down your content and structure. Otherwise, you’re just decorating a blueprint you haven’t finished yet.

4. Is it ever really "done"?
Websites are often evolving over time. (I think that cabin might be too!) There's always a blog that needs to be written, a service that changes, a product that no longer exists etc. And that's ok!

If my cabin were a website, I'd wait to launch it until it looked a little prettier, though! 😅

08/01/2025

I’ve helped so many clients with SEO… while quietly ignoring my own website. ;)
But here’s the thing I love about SEO: even slow, sporadic updates add up.

Keep showing up (even imperfectly) and before you know it your site will rank faster and better. SEO work accumulates!

07/16/2025

Does your web host block AI crawlers? Several hosts have taken it upon themselves to do so on a server level without explicitly informing their clients.

Luckily you can quickly check this on your computer! Want to know how? Post a comment and I'll share the info!

06/18/2025

Now you’ve got to know one squirrel a bit better, here’s the other one! 😉
3 truths and a lie…

👮 He defeated corrupt officers in court when he was a lawyer
🌭 He worked in a butcher shop and learned how to make the best sausages
🎤 If you ask him about singing in Las Vegas, he’ll run and hide
🔨 Before designing and building our future home, he didn’t own a power-tool

Sooo, which one is the lie? 😃

06/18/2025

How about 3 truths and a lie?
(Aka get to know this squirrel)

🧊 I once got my leg stuck in a glacier crevasse
💄 My 14 year old wedding lipstick is the only one I own (and wear in this photo)
🐴 A horse kicked me, so I have a horseshoe shaped scar
🪈 I play the recorder pretty well after years of training

Spot the lie? And share yours! 😃

📷: the fabulous (made me feel all Fancy Pants McGee during this shoot!)

05/23/2025

Where do you start when you want a new website? (Or when you want to redesign the old one?)

Check out our blog about the ideal web design process!

https://chunkysquirrel.com/website-design-process

05/17/2025

A lot of our clients need an occasional image to go with blog content or page updates. And unless they have access to a lot of custom brand photography (that's the dream), free stock photos work great!

Here's a list of free stock image websites that can help you embellish your blogs!

A list of websites offering high-quality free images and videos for your blog posts, including Unsplash, Pixabay, Pexels, and more.

12/03/2024

With the end of the year in sight, when I look back at 2024, all I can think of is “we made it!!”. 😂

Biggest takeaway from 2024: beyond grateful for our amazing clients! 🧡 Without them we wouldn’t have been able to do so many things! Like work from abroad for a while, work from his bed for weeks during Jelger’s back injury, take time for important appointments during the day etc.

We never take any of it for granted!