Golden Bay Industries was founded after friends asked us to make websites for their businesses. We decided to create an entity we could do small projects under, and invest the proceeds. Once we were established we quickly saw how much we could really do with our organization. With 15 years of software experience between us, we saw an opportunity to go beyond simple landing pages and build bigger projects.
With this in mind, we took a week of personal time from our jobs and got together to start building. By the end of that week, our mindsets had shifted dramatically and we were all in on Golden Bay Industries. We built our website, established our accounting system, created our branding, took photos and did everything we could to get started. We were hooked!
Our drive came from a simple idea: our business is an extension of ourselves. We saw that we could utilize all the skills we had grown in our careers in a new context, to help our clients.
Our goal is to provide functionality and form to our clients. A website must work, and it must look good. Both are equally important and neither should be compromised.
We consider security, speed and scalability to be the bedrock and build on that foundation. Our clients need their product to function and to function well. There is little room for error in software; Something co-founder Liam McGoldrick became incredibly aware of while working in healthcare software. We work in either .Net or PHP, and use only plain JavaScript. This means our websites are incredibly lightweight, and have minimal entry points for malicious actors. When it is practical, we write our own web logic, to avoid the bloat that comes with importing libraries. Our goal is generally to make the lightest weight website that we possibly can while fulfilling all our requirements.
Design comes naturally to us. We understand that tastes vary, and our clients taste is what should drive our design. We are comfortable nudging clients away from designs that are not ideal, while also respecting their decision is the final one. The website design is an extension of your branding, and should feel natural when paired with it. It is important to match the sites design with the purpose as well. Utilitarian aesthetics are often in vogue for B2B organizations while more flashy sites are useful when going directly to consumers. A local business may want to focus on their connection with the area while a national business may want to focus on their people instead. Its all a question of messaging and tone.
