We are a web design and development firm that builds beautiful, elegant, and innovative solutions using open-source software. In short...

We make BIG websites

Performance and scalability

We build systems for massive growth — not just an increase in traffic, but increases in the amount of content, number of users, and site complexity.

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Systems Architecture

We integrate and deploy diverse hardware and software designed to scale with your traffic.

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Design

Our full-time designers are experts at graphic design for the web and digital media, as well as print media such as brochures, publications, and beyond. Their expertise also includes shaping a company's unique brand to reflect its audience, values, and personality. Check out some of our design work in our portfolio.

Project Management

Our project manager works with the client, subject matter experts, designers, and developers to create a consistent whole. In addition to managing our internal team, we also offer project management services for our clients’ teams.

User Experience

A website is nothing without great user experience. Our web chefs carefully prepare each site with great attention to usability and ease of use.

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Development

Our developers maintain a broad skill set that spans the full depth of web applications from the front end to the database. Our in-house programming language expertise includes PHP, SQL, JavaScript, Python, Java, C, and Ruby.

Mobile Services

Our front-end developers busy paving the way for the pocket web. From basic mobile sites to smartphone and tablet apps, your tools will be perfect for your needs.

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DevOps

We specialize in highly automated, distributed workflows using tools like Jenkins and git. We’ll make sure your team, no matter how big or small, can reliably deploy the best code on your site in the shortest amount of time possible.

Recent news

Weekly Watercooler, PORTlandia edition

Aaron Stanush

Howdy! This week we sent Diana and Chris to Portland to kick off the Drupal.org upgrade sprint. Diana is helping with upgrading the issue queue and Chris is working on porting the theme to Drupal 7. You can read more about the project or check out the rest of the master plans for Drupal.org in 2012.

Weekly Watercooler, Willie Nelson edition

Aaron Stanush

Big news this week, Four Kitchens turned six years old! Since 2006, we’ve grown from four to sixteen and are thrilled to be providing web solutions for so many great projects. Here’s to six more!

And now a look at what the web chefs have been talking about this week:

  • Chris shared his love for web performance by showing us this list of 27 tips and tricks for making your websites that other kind of “responsive”.

Events

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