We build the large, custom websites that organizations like yours have to live with for the next five years

Talk to Jess Ferko about your site. Thirty minutes, on the phone or on a call, to work out what the project actually involves before anyone writes a proposal.

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No cost and no obligation. You get a straight read on scope and timeline either way.

25Years of digital experience

Back Pocket Media has been building custom websites since 2008 for professional associations, biotech and healthcare companies, and the agencies that serve them. Hundreds of designs. Most of our work comes by referral.

A site your team can actually run

Big institutional websites usually fail in the same place. They launch beautifully, and then nobody internally can change a page without calling a developer. We build for the two years after launch, not just the launch.

In the build

What you get

Custom design, not a purchased theme with your logo dropped in
Information architecture worked out before a single page is designed
Custom WordPress development your staff can manage without a developer
Microsites, member portals and multi-language sections when the project calls for them

In the project

How it runs

One person owns your project start to finish and knows every detail of it
Delivered on the timeline and the budget we agreed to
We work around your board cycles, review rounds and internal approvals
You get told as much or as little as you want about why each decision matters

How the project works

We talk about the site you have
Thirty minutes on what is not working, who has to use it internally, what is driving the timeline, and roughly what has been set aside for it.
Strategy and architecture
We map what the site needs to do and how it should be organized before anyone opens a design tool. This is the part most projects skip and then pay for later.
Design and development
UX and UI design, then custom WordPress development. You review in stages rather than seeing the whole thing at the end.
Launch and hand off
The site goes live and your team gets trained on managing it. Where you need copywriting, branding, SEO or medical animation, we bring in specialists from our partner network.

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Who you'll be speaking with

Jess Ferko

Founder of Back Pocket Media, a woman-owned business she started in 2008. She has her hands in every website project the studio takes on, and she runs the large multi-team builds herself.

The team behind the work

Designers and developers who came up through creative agencies and in-house design teams, plus a partner network for copywriting, branding, SEO and medical animation.

Aga Khan Foundation USANonprofit and foundation

Frederick National LaboratoryBiotech research

InterActionInternational NGO alliance

USAID CIDIGovernment and development

APSIAProfessional association

Duke Law Human Rights TrackerLegal and academic

ICNL websites and micrositesLegal and policy

Virginia DOE School Quality ProfilesState education

Who this is for

This is a fit if

You are a professional association, a nonprofit or NGO, or a biotech or healthcare company. Your site is large, the content is complicated, and more than one department has to touch it. You have real budget set aside and a decision maker who can sign. You would rather get the architecture right than get it fast.

This is not a fit if

You want a five page brochure site, you want the cheapest quote in your inbox, or you need it live in three weeks. We are not the right studio for any of those and we will tell you on the call.

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