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Max Elman

Founder And Project Manager

Max Elman

“Good Design Is Making Something Intelligible And Memorable. Great Design Is Making Something Memorable And Meaningful.”
— Dieter Rams

Likely because he never had the pet frog he dreamed of as a kid, Max instead founded Razorfrog Web Design and has since designed hundreds of virtual frogs. He went to UC Santa Cruz and graduated from Porter College with a BA in Art, focusing on photography and digital design.

He now acts as our lead Project Manager – you’ll be working directly with him on your projects in person, over the phone, and by email.

Find Max on Flickr, Instagram, Linkedin, Twitter, and WordPress.org.

Max's Latest Posts

Why Razorfrog? Exploring our name with AI

August 11, 2022
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We’re often asked about our business name and where “Razorfrog” came from. There’s a short answer in our FAQ, but you deserve to know more! With the recent rise of...

Using the GridPane API to export site data to Airtable

December 31, 2021
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We use GridPane to manage almost 200 sites and that creates a lot of data to sort through. The GP backend lets us access data one site at a time, but it isn’t ideal for bulk management....

Why Do We Use Cloudflare?

May 10, 2021
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When we set up client websites we’re sometimes asked for more in-depth details on why we move DNS to Cloudflare. We list a few primary points in our site-setup post from May 2020, but are...

Holiday Update 2020

December 17, 2020
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As the end of the year approaches, we like to reach out, check in, and share our gratitude for your continued support. It's a time of reflection for us all - to look at our challenges, successes,...

Using M/Monit With Gridpane

August 6, 2020
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Sharing a few notes on how to quickly set up M/Monit with servers managed through GridPane....

Why we use Cloudflare, GridPane, and Mailgun

May 11, 2020
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Over the years we’ve used dozens of domain registrars and webhosts. We’ve had our favorites, become affiliates and referral partners for a handful, recommended them to scores of...

Razorfrog Web Design Leaps to the Top of Clutch’s Ranking of Web Designers in SF 2019

May 13, 2019
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With Razorfrog Web Design, buyers know what they’re getting when they partner with us. In short, every one of our clients can expect excellent service from our team of industry professionals who...

Migrating from Mediatemple to Digital Ocean with Runcloud

April 9, 2019
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Here at Razorfrog we’re big fans of managed WordPress hosting with Kinsta and WPEngine. We wrote all about it here, and those opinions haven’t changed much over the years. However, a...

What is Browser Caching?

May 11, 2018
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When designing websites and sharing development links with clients, we often run into styling issues where things don’t quite look how they should. Occasionally this is server caching, but...

Clutch Lists Razorfrog as Top Web Design Firm

May 8, 2017
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At Razorfrog, delivering solutions that meet and exceed our customers’ expectations is our company’s driving purpose. It is the promise that we live up to every day as we deliver the best website...

Disable Default Punch Fonts from Essential Grid Plugin

April 19, 2017
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If you’ve used the Essential Grid plugin lately, you’ve likely noticed that the “Punch Fonts” module is a bit buggy and automatically re-activates three default fonts...

WooCommerce Minimum Product Quantity Notice

November 16, 2016
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Recently I came across an interesting problem while creating a Holiday Catering ordering system for Gus’s Market using WooCommerce. The page uses the WooCommerce One Page Checkout extension...

Add WooCommerce Customer Order Info to Users Page with This Code Snippet

August 12, 2016
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Success in eCommerce means knowing your customers – and knowing your customers means having data at your fingertips. While working on a recent design refresh for Hunt & Heist, we...

Plugin Release: Product Dropdown Widget for WooCommerce

June 29, 2016
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When we develop WordPress and WooCommerce sites, we’re big fans of using established plugins and extensions to add functionality whenever possible – why reinvent the wheel, after all?...

How To Make A Quick Sitemap

April 29, 2016
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When starting a new website project, it’s incredibly helpful to have a visual reference showing the pages on your site, navigation structure, and page-to-page connections. This can take...

Web Design That Supports Health Professionals

October 19, 2015
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Over the past few years, we’ve had the privilege to work with a wide range of healthcare businesses. As a healthcare professional or wellness company, your website should simultaneously...

5 Features of SEO-Friendly Website Design

October 6, 2015
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A website designed to modern standards and meant to rank well in organic search has to have several important characteristics. Here at Razorfrog we include basic SEO work in all of our projects,...

Defining Your Brand’s Identity: Where to Start

September 16, 2015
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Even businesses that have been around for years may have no idea what their brand actually represents to customers. That’s where brand identity comes in. Your brand identity is what makes you...

Building a Small Business in San Francisco? Start With the Website

September 9, 2015
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It may seem counterintuitive to create your business website at the same time you’re just getting started as a company, but the importance of functional and responsive web design cannot be...

Why Major Media Companies Trust WordPress

August 11, 2015
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WordPress makes publishing easy for everyone, from individual bloggers to the largest media companies on the web. In this infographic, we look at which major media companies trust WordPress and...

Which WordPress SEO Plugin Should I Use?

August 6, 2015
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Search engines are a primary source for driving traffic and sales for most e-commerce websites, so optimizing your website for optimal placement in search results is crucial for success. That’s...

Flat Design: What’s It All About?

July 29, 2015
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What is flat design? In simple terms, it’s shorthand for a website design practice that provides clarity in a simplistic user interface. Besides being brightly colored and minimalistic, flat...

Mastering User Experience

July 6, 2015
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Managing the user experience on websites can be a complex undertaking. There are many factors that go into designing and curating user experience and most of these are under the control of the...

How to Choose the Right San Francisco Web Design Company for Your Brand

June 2, 2015
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As a working professional or a business owner, your website is essential tool in reaching new customers and maintaining customer loyalty. When it comes time for new website, you want to feel...

Passing the Google Mobile Friendly test with WPTouch and WPEngine

April 21, 2015
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Preparing for Google’s Mobile Friendly update on April 21st, we noticed that some of our clients’ sites using the WPTouch plugin were unexpectedly failing Google’s...

Removing pa_ from product attribute URLs in WooCommerce 2.3+

March 6, 2015
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When upgrading to WooCommerce 2.3 or higher, you may notice that any use of custom attribute archives such as /style/vintage (an archive of all products with the “vintage” attribute)...

Thoughts from WordCamp San Francisco 2014

October 27, 2014
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The Razorfrog team attended WordCamp San Francisco this past weekend, and as always, we like to share a few of our lessons, talks, links, and other takeaways from the conference. There’s a...

Razorfrog Made a Billboard

July 29, 2014
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We designed a billboard for The Pawington and it's now up near SFO!...

Bulk Edit WordPress Post Format

October 14, 2013
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After a few tiring days of searching for ways to bulk convert posts into a new post format for the upcoming Inspire Me Today redesign, we went ahead and created a plugin to easily take care of...

Installing WP-CLI on a Mediatemple Grid Server

July 27, 2013
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A quick update from the road while at Wordcamp 2013 in San Francisco. After heading Mike Schroder’s talk: Magical WordPress Management using WP-CLI, I decided to install WP-CLI on a new...

Yelp: Best Web Design in SF

February 28, 2013
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If there was some sort of hidden website for the world elite that told everyone the closely kept secrets of the world, and they told you that Razorfrog Web Design was the best in San Francisco,...

Facebook Page Timeline Update

March 1, 2012
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Yesterday, Facebook’s new Timeline format became available for business pages. A forced transition will occur on March 30th, so business owners are encouraged to customize the new format...

New Proposal Format

February 27, 2012
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Here at Razorfrog, we’re always trying to make things easier for our customers....

Radio, Radio, Radio!

February 15, 2012
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We’ve always had a soft spot in our hearts for College Radio, and we’re happy to announce that we’ve now completed our fourth radio website, Radio of Clark University....

Razorfrog Loves WordCamp

August 15, 2011
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After spending the last three days at Wordcamp San Francisco 2011, we decided to take count of all of our WordPress sites to create some statistic magic. Who doesn’t love numbers?...

We’re Number One!

March 2, 2011
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Razorfrog Web Design is the #1 ranked web design company in San Francisco on thumbtack.com! Not too shabby!...

Recordpressing.com Redesign

December 6, 2010
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Yesterday we finished a new version of recordpressing.com – the website for a San Francisco based vinyl record manufacturer....

New Website

November 23, 2010
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We’ve gone green with a new site with more information than ever. ...

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