About us
A practical team for your digital infrastructure.
We design, manage, and improve WordPress websites and the systems behind them for businesses, nonprofits, and agency partners. We're based in Morgantown, West Virginia, and we've been doing this since 2010.
What we do
We make digital understandable.
Our purpose is simple: make the technical side of a business understandable, and make sure somebody competent is looking after it, for the businesses and nonprofits that keep their communities running.
Today that means 300+ client and agency-partner websites across the country: designing them, hosting them, keeping them healthy, and building the tools and integrations that make them useful. A website is one piece of a bigger system, and we look after the whole thing.
Meet the founder
Eric Nutter
Founder, Slight Revision
Unofficial title: Chief Problem Untangler
Eric has been building websites since 1998 and started Slight Revision in 2010. He leads strategy, the technical work, and the tricky problems that don't fit neatly into a project checklist.
We're a small core team with the right specialists around us. You get people who know your website personally, with extra expertise on hand when the work calls for it.
Our motto: made by hand, kept by hand
Also on the team: meet Rev, our Guardian Architect
Lead designer
Gwen Growden
Lead Web Designer, Slight Revision
Unofficial title: Chief Pixel Profiler
Gwen leads the design work at Slight Revision, and has for more than a decade. She and Eric worked together in bank marketing first; when she moved on in 2013, she kept designing and building websites, and never really stopped.
Her path ran through criminal justice, forensic psychology, HR and compliance before marketing — an unusual route to web design, and a useful one. A lot of good design is really about understanding how people behave and how a process actually works. The ten-plus years of doing it well is what counts.
In short, Gwen sweats the details so you never have to
Technical advisor
Steve Cuppett
Advisor, Slight Revision
Unofficial title: Chief Second Opinion
Steve is a longtime friend and technical sounding board who advises Slight Revision on infrastructure, software architecture, cloud systems, security, and the especially complicated problems that benefit from another experienced set of eyes.
His career has taken him deep into enterprise software, cloud platforms, and engineering leadership — experience that gives us a valuable perspective well beyond the scale of the websites we manage day to day. He isn’t part of our daily production team; he’s someone Eric can call when a decision deserves a bigger technical conversation.
Outside Slight Revision, Steve is a Vice President of Engineering at Red Hat, where his work is focused on large-scale software and cloud platforms.
In short, Steve is the one you call when things get weird
Steve advises Slight Revision in a personal capacity; his role here is independent of his work at Red Hat.
What we value
Four values, in practice.
Values only count if you can see them in how the work gets done. Here's what ours look like day to day.
Empowerment
We explain things until they make sense, then you decide. It’s your website.
Integrity
If the smaller option is the right one, that's the one we recommend. And we treat your brand like it's ours.
Innovation
New tools when they solve a real problem, not because they’re new. We keep making our good better, and our better the best.
Balance
Steady work for our team and yours, because quality doesn’t survive constant fire drills.
Sharing what we know
We teach as much as we build.
From tutorials, Loom videos, Zoom calls, conference sessions, and one-on-one walkthroughs, we like helping people understand how their website and technology actually work. Plain language, practical answers, and no jargon for its own sake (unless it just sounds cool, then maybe).
Staying Curious
We leave the workshop sometimes.
Every now and then, we get out of the workshop to learn from other people doing interesting work. That might be at conferences, workshops, or sometimes just over a long conversation. We bring the useful stuff home, experiment with it, and figure out what might actually help our clients.
WordCamp US, Portland
A few days surrounded by people who build, maintain, and occasionally break WordPress for a living.
Comparing notes
Between sessions with our technical advisor, Steve Cuppett. Some of the best ideas start as hallway conversations.
A Thousand Colleagues
Developers, designers, hosts, plugin makers, and other people responsible for making the web work.
The Uprising
Mark Schaefer's marketing conference - fewer plugins, more conversations about people, community, and what actually works.
How we work
A few workshop rules.
The habits that keep the work good and the team healthy.
Clear, honest communication
Something went wrong? Say so. Skip the spin, figure out what happened, and focus on the fix.
Ownership means: See it, Own It
If we spot something that could be better, we say something and bring a solution with us.
Fewer Meetings, More Building
Come on. It's Friday. We try to keep Fridays meeting-free so there's time to focus, build, and finish things. Support still happens. Emergencies still count.
Time to think, Room to Tinker
Not every useful idea starts with a client request. We make room to experiment, learn things, and occasionally build something weird.
A quote we like: A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing.
— L.P. Jacks
Close to home
Rooted in West Virginia
We work with organizations across the country, but home is Almost Heaven, West Virginia. We support local schools, nonprofits, and community efforts because taking care of the place you call home matters, too.
Local schools
Sponsors, and the software behind the front door.
Our name is on the sponsor wall in a couple of local high school gyms, which is the least interesting part of the story. The better part: three high schools in our county use check-in and check-out software we built, every day.
It started with a clunky process and an “I think we can fix that.” A proof of concept became the real thing, and we've kept improving it ever since. Today, it quietly handles hundreds of thousands of student check-ins and check-outs each school year.
Let's build something that lasts.
Tell us about your organization and what you need next. You'll hear back from a person, not a ticket queue.
