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The Internet is Hard.

Hard to figure out, hard to manage, hard to keep up. So hard!

And even though that is what she said, you NEED to master it. The Internet, that is.

You- and/or your clients - need to grow your business, get those clients, funnel those sales, sell more, do better, be awesome (because hi, you ARE awesome).

We can help.

<again, just with the internet part>

Snark Studios is a small front-end development co, specializing in all-things-Wordpress.

We know that getting ideas from concept, to design, to actually looking right in your favorite browser (and your least favorite browser, plus your phone, don’t forget tablet, auntie’s phone, that new giant phone, and your TV) can be complicated.

But it doesn’t have to be difficult.

we promise:

  • A developer who won’t ghost you + always follows through.
  • To make the web manageable for you + your clients.
  • No BS.
  • Nothing fancy you don’t really need.
  • Everything good you do need.

For real. here's how:

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Convert your beautifully designed mockups into an efficient, secure, accessible, and responsive website. Simple as that.

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Like having a lawyer on retainer, only you can’t call me if you end up in jail, sorry. Just your web-related issues, updates, code changes, bug fixes, and such.

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You are tired of GoDaddy’s confusing interface, worrying about security, backups, and honestly, like, what even IS hosting? Just let us handle it, mmk pumpkin?

I want in. Learn me more.

join the digital spring cleaning challenge

Hate actually cleaning but love the concept of clean? Join the Digital Spring Cleaning Challenge! It’s gonna be like cleaning, only without the strenuous cleaning part. Also no rubber gloves.

OK SO WHAT THE HONOLULU IS IT: A challenge to “clean” your digital life: 5 days, 5 emails, 5 steps. FINALLY get all your online sh*t organized FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. We will:

  • Review your security.
  • Take inventory.
  • Organize things, with a free download (free stuff! fun!)
  • Say bye to tools you don't need.
  • Throw a (safe) party.

The challenge is designed for business owners and side-hustlers (I hate this term, but until I figure out a better way to say “people who work fulltime for someone else but also have a hobby or maybe a business they’re trying to grow on the side,” …side-hustlers works fine I guess).

You don’t HAVE to be a business owner to benefit, however. I have over 150 online accounts that have nothing to do with my business - accounts I would have even if I were not a business owner. So I encourage you to check it out, regardless of your business-owning status.

Challenge starts April 5th. Join us!

It’s mostly just me here.

I’m Sara, founder, developer, user experience consultant, debugger, quality assurance tester, snarky commentator, and chieftess of Snark Studios.

I work solo a lot of the time, but I also have copy experts, video mavens, talented designers, and back-end developers in my pocket (but not in an illegal-mobster way) to give you the best project experience possible (see? it’s legit).

getting to know youuuu...er, me.

Yesterday I got dressed up and put chemicals all o Yesterday I got dressed up and put chemicals all over my face (probably) so @studioaray could take some pics of me that I can maybe use on my website and whatever.

It was glorious. It was nerve-wracking. It was fun! It was a thing that gave me a little bit of empathy and compassion for influencers and content creators and professional models.

It’s a LOT to think about like, what is my face doing right now? What am I doing with my hands? What do my feet look like? How can I coordinate all of these things all at once while also switching it up so I give myself some variety to choose from?

The last time I had profesh photos taken was my wedding, and I remember getting the photos back and loving them TO DEATH (hi @redfieldphoto I love you, still) but also realizing that my face was kind of doing the same thing in almost 100% of the pics?

Perhaps because I was deliriously happy and thrilled and actually simply smiling the whole day but ALSO like, nary a funny smirk with cocked eyebrow to be had, no playfully mysterious closed-mouth smile (you know you’re not an influencer if you don’t have a practiced closed-mouth smile, eh?)

It was literally the same crinkle-eyed smile the whole day, which again, FINE AND GREAT. NO REGRETS. But. Ya know. Some variety would be nice, I guess is what I’m saying.

I can’t wait to see the pics even though my hair wasn’t really cooperating. Kristin is super talented. I felt great putting makeup on and apparently have not lost the little skill I had pre-covid so that’s nice.

It was a bit of an addicting feeling, making the time all about me, knowing i’ll have these photos of myself, looking the way I look now, immortalizing this phase of my life forever - yes for business purposes but also, it’s a MOOD, isn’t it?

It’s ME at 33, blue + purple hair, biz owner, mom of one, wife to someone, a thirty-something who can’t believe she’s thirty-something and allowed to be in charge of bills and another human.

Show me a thirty-something who is totally prepared and fine and ready to be a thirty-something and I’ll pull a million gold pieces out A-cup bra, ok? ✌🏼
Learned a new parenting hack over the last 3 days Learned a new parenting hack over the last 3 days dealing with the toddler-est toddler to ever toddler AND IT IS ...nope no, sorry there’s no hack, all toddlers are insane and unhinged, they’re supposed to be that way apparently?! It’s all kinda nuts 😂

I DID learn though that I AM allowed to say no thank you to carrying him while on a walk and it doesn’t end the world: “Mama, up up?” “No, Charlie walks.” And he simply said “Yis!”

Is that a hack? Is it a fluke? Do I have like the perfect voice intonation that says both “I love you” and also “do wtf I say” simultaneously?? Gonna go with yes on that one 🏆✌🏼

#charlietpants #thesweetlifeunscripted #momentslikethese #isolationchronicles #sharetheeverymom
Until last week, my longest body of writing work w Until last week, my longest body of writing work was an essay on sand dune management and the effects of dredging, circa senior year of high school I think. Important, if not thrilling, and certainly not well-informed or impassioned. Though I DO remember getting really into it at the time, becoming obsessively concerned with dredging + its consequences for a ridiculously brief period, as youth does.

Anyway, NOW my longest body of writing work is what I’m calling my essay on motherhood, 2 years in.

Important, maybe thrilling? Still not well-informed, but definitely impassioned. So impassioned that it got a little out of control and I turned it into 4 different blog posts. Like, I just went out for a casual walk around the block, but instead I ended up on a steep and muddy hiking trail in my good sneakers that I don’t like to get dirty. It’s MESSY. JUST LIKE MOTHERHOOD.

It’s posted at the link in my bio, starting with part 1 - the lightest, and THEN by accident getting heavier with each part.

I haven’t felt so proud - about accomplishing both the writing and the mothering - in a while, and I’d feel honored, I think, for you to read it. [Trigger warnings posted throughout]

#theeverymom #talesofthemoment #mybeautifulstories #treasurethistime #postpartumrecovery

📷: @mrslamonica @littlebeansphotography
Charlie’s second birthday is tomorrow (!!! I’m Charlie’s second birthday is tomorrow (!!! I’m fine) and I have FEELINGS (I am not fine). I’ve been writing what has kinda turned into a personal essay slash thesis paper on my experience with motherhood (complete with the fact that I don’t - still - identify with the term “motherhood”) and the more I write, the less I feel comfortable sharing it. There’s just so much to say, I guess? I keep reminding myself that I AM NOT, CAN’T BE the only one who feels these feelings - potentially these feelings that aren’t as pretty, aren’t as “motherly,” aren’t I don’t know, mainstream?

Whatever.

I’m gonna share it when I’m done, and I can’t wait to not care a single bit if no one else agrees or likes it. 🙃✌🏼

PS look closely, you’ll see his feet are not actually touching the bed, naturally 😂 as I said, his second birthday is tomorrow and he is right on time for it 💙

#joyspotting #quietchaotics #theeverymom #treasurethistime
Wrote this on Friday, still applies: Sometimes my Wrote this on Friday, still applies:

Sometimes my desperation to see and be with people, friends, is so palpable it feels like a weighted blanket draped over my head and wrapped round my shoulders. But like not in a comforting or anxiety-reducing way, like a good weighted blanket. It’s like a bad weighted blanket that is also glued to me and I desperately need to rip it off but I can’t because then I lose skin and hair and I lost enough hair after baby and just honestly cannot afford to lose any more.

I stopped by a coffee shop this morning that is close to a friend’s office. I thought about texting her to come meet me quickly, just to say hi, like I would have pre-covid. But all I could think was that if I see her, I will want to hug her, and we can’t, or we shouldn’t, or even if we could, it would give me too much anxiety to hug her, and then I would feel awkward and be sad, and thinking about this supposed scenario made me sad so I didn’t text her. I just got my coffee and came home.

Things feel a little better, in general, in the world, recently. But y’all it still sucks. A lot, huh? Swear to god as soon as all of this passes, I’m going to give out free hugs to anyone and everyone who will allow it. I will visit EVERYONE. I will touch as many [consenting] shoulders and shake so many hands. I will brush arms with people I pass on sidewalks and in stores, gladly. Do please come get in my personal space! I will smile so big at everyone with my eyes AND the unhidden bottom of my face.

One thing remains unchanged and not terrible, though: Muffin, and her staring 😂 have to end on a lighter note 😘✌🏼
We watched “baba baybees” aka Muppet Babies th We watched “baba baybees” aka Muppet Babies this morning (for a record 6 minutes) and I just stared at these cheeks and that mouth and his daddy’s nose (🥰😭) and thought about how UN-FUCKING-FIT things are right now.

Not for him, really - since, as discussed before, my privileged white boy will probably have minimal hardships through no fault or effort of his own, bless his little heart.

But it’s become clearer to me, a thing I’ve heard people say before and never really resonated with: that they didn’t want to “bring a child into this world.” That means a lot of different things to a lot of different people, definitely, but it never meant anything to me, really. My reasons for having or not having kid(s) was always about ME and my fam vs. like global issues, cultural hardships, or whatever it means to each person when they say “this world.”

I get it now, on my own level at least. Sometimes when I stare at him in my pensive moods I am still waiting for the grown-ups to come home and take over. Who’s going to teach him about…all…of this? Oh right. Me.

Shit.

Yes yes, I am capable, I am open, I am learning for myself, and I know I’ll find the words and ways. Eventually. I hope.

For now, kinda glad I can process, learn, cope, rage silently, etc. etc. on my own as we are still mostly learning things like Mama doesn’t want the lights on or the volume up on Muppet Babies in the morning because SHE. IS. SLEEPING. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

💙✌🏼
He smiled 3 seconds later but his eyes are doing a He smiled 3 seconds later but his eyes are doing a weird zombie blur thing so do enjoy the toddler-duh-face 😂 happy Christmas, y’all. We did a lot of this today - snuggle - and I hope you got some too, from whoever, however, even virtually 💙✌🏼
Today’s moment of zen brought to you by I Ain’ Today’s moment of zen brought to you by I Ain’t Got Time To Stop My Walk To Take An Entire Video, so we’ll just look at camo-Muffin and a bit of the stereotypical What Shoes Am I Wearing situation instead.

@sorelfootwear sneakers, btw.

Goochland was cold af today but my 1 hour of quiet time in the woods was nice. It feels extra special + I feel lucky to be [safely] visiting my parents right now 💙✌🏼

#isolationchronicles #cornersofmyworld #nicethings #joyspotting #reillyrescue
Washed my hair today for a kinda big potential cli Washed my hair today for a kinda big potential client meeting and then just talked on the phone and obviously I’m only a tiny bit salty about that wasted effort — on a rainy Monday no less! So. Insta or it didn’t happen ✌🏼
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Bonus: get seriously serious about things

Get Serious is a thoughtful bi-weekly column about independence, finding balance (lol), and being boss for people who like sarcasm. It’s my special creative-outlet-jam that I like to spread on everyone’s biscuit. That sounds creepier than intended. Really, I just like to write about life shit and share it with people, aka YOU.

Find out if you like my jam on your biscuit (still a weird metaphor but I’m committed now):

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