A Little Bit About Who We Are & What We Do.
Frayed Knot
is a collaborative network of creative, tech and business development professionals, each of us with talents and strengths which we leverage on projects to make sure that all tasks are completed by capable and experienced personnel. Our Writers, Designers and Developers have mastered their craft and are experienced in their field. This allows us to follow the “division of labor” principle which results in a highly efficient process and ensures the quality of the final product.
Web
Kevin R. Tutt
Designer | Developer | Strategist
Kevin is a determined self-starter, with a passion for his work and focus on client satisfaction. He began working with websites mostly as a hobby in 2010. Having worked in many sectors of IT, he found creating websites to be very rewarding, as it intersects his knowledge of IT principles with his drive for creative work. In 2018, he worked for a small marketing agency where he managed over 30 sites, built 6 new sites for their clients and introduced new tools and resources for efficiency. Aside from front end web development, he’s also quite adept at professional audio and video editing, which have been able to save time and money on a few projects. When he’s not helping clients create custom digitial experiences for their audiences, he’s often been known to attend house music nights at local music venues or visit his favorite local pizza spots.
Content
Sherry Taylor
Copy Writer | Content Editor
Much of Sherry’s 20+ year career in Professional Writing has resided firmly in the digital realm–making her a natural fit for our Content Team. Her experience, including digital content development for a Fortune 500 company, coupled with her graduate studies in both Professional Writing and Instructional Design, make her particularly adept at stepping in to bridge the gap between our clients’ content and their audience.
Julie LaVoice
Copy Writer | Content Editor
Julie’s love affair with writing led to her bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and then compelled her to complete her MFA in the same. Her desire to spark that same flame in others has made her 13+ year career as an adjunct professor in English a natural fit at both the University of Memphis and Southwest. A passion as deep as hers is not content with merely being passed to others, however. It also demands to be expressed in practice, as evidenced by her decade+ career in Professional Writing. Her writing, editing, and proofreading have enlivened and perfected digital content for multiple global enterprises. Ever the optimist, she has also worked for 20+ years to correct Sherry’s comma abuse and has yet to give in. Fortunately for her employers, clients, and especially Sherry, Julie’s steadfast reliability and unfailing technical accuracy has saved many a day, project, and deadline.
Design
Beth Hilton
Graphic Designer | Art Direction
Beth Hilton is a graphic design enthusiast born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. She is a proud product of Memphis College of Art where she earned two BFAs in Graphic Design and Book Arts. She’s been crafting design solutions for 13 years and even found time to redesign the logo for Sun Studio in 2007. Some of her other clients over the years include St. Jude, FedEx, Jerry Lee Lewis (the Killer himself) and the City of Memphis to name a few. She specializes in complete brand development through solid and consistent design execution…and works tirelessly to feed her obsession with the psychology behind what separates good design from GREAT design.
How We Get It Done
Even though each client and project will be unique in nature, it's always helpful to have an overview workflow process to keep projects moving forward. Again, we haven't reinvented the wheel, but we have incorporated what we feel is an efficient and transparent process for strategy building in the digital sphere. Check out the interactive info-graphic below for more details.
1. Discovery
Come together on project goals.
2. Strategy
Establish milestones & content model
3. Wireframe
An HTML mark-up of content model.
Process
6. Delivery
Transfer to hosting server for deployment.
5. Proof
Proof concepts & content revisions.
4. Develop
Implement prototype on staging server.
How We Get It Done
Even though each client and project will be unique in nature, it's always helpful to have an overview workflow process to keep projects moving forward. Again, we haven't reinvented the wheel, but we have incorporated what we feel is an efficient and transparent process for strategy building in the digital sphere. Check out the interactive info-graphic below for me details.
Process
1. Discovery
Come together on website goals.
2. Strategy
Establish milestones & content model
3. Wireframe
An HTML mark-up of content model.
4. Develop
Implement prototype on staging server.
5. Proof
Proof concepts & content revisions.
6. Delivery
Transfer to hosting server for deployment.
Here’s What We Believe.
It’s now easier than it’s ever been for businesses and individuals to publish their ideas to the internet. The power to publish content, grow an audience and market to them is no longer held by a small number of specially trained people. After all, you should have control over your content.
Cooperative Development
We believe that we can provide the most value to those who are willing to help themselves. Through our cooperative development process, we engage our clients and encourage them to take an active role in their website. Your website is your digital HQ on the web, no one can run it better than you.
Open-source First
We believe that communtiy makes us stronger. When you have the support of an entire communtiy your project is more likely to be successful. Open-source means that a community of support is baked into each project we approach. This level of access empowers and enables us to realize the rest of our core values.
Creative Empowerment
What is the web without content? Our commitment to open-source tech enables anyone with an idea, vision, mission or calling to engage with others and develop those ideas into visions and missions into callings. We give the creative a platform to distribute their work, whatever that may be.
Do What You Love
Earning a living doing what you love, while helping to empower others is the highest calling there is. We absolutely love to create beautiful web sites that empower our clients and give them control over content creation. We stand on the shoulders of giants, and we love to see others succeed.
Practical Solutions for
Modern Web Development.
Your web site should be a vehicle for sharing ideas, distributing your message and making your content stand out. From complex e-commerce solutions to the most basic blog, we provide your project with a road-map to launch. And we do it really fast. Click or tap the button to get started.
MODERN DESIGN
Elegant design, custom functionality & integrated services.
POWERFUL YET SIMPLE
The most powerful tech is often much easier than you think.
FAST DELIVERY
Sites usually delivered in about 3 months or less. That's fast.