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We sincerely believe that we are the very best option in the Santa Cruz area -- and one of the best nationally -- for any small to midsize business in need of a website and/or online shopping solution. Big words, we know... but you don't have to take our word for it:

"After going through pure hell with four web gurus, I was blessed, and I mean blessed, to find John Benedetti and his iluminada.com operation. John's creativity with design and content, plus his patience, have made what used to be a nightmare into a pure pleasure. John is there when you need him. If he tells you he'll do something, he actually does it! I can't say enough good stuff about him."
--Allan Weisbecker, Author of In Search of Captain Zero and Cosmic Banditos

"We needed a web designer who was straight forward, honest and able to listen to our unique needs. We found those qualities and more in John Benedetti and Iluminada Design."
--Devon Dabbs and Lori Butterworth, Children's Hospice

"Iluminada is the best thing that's happend to my business."
--Cathy Erwin, Walkabout Harnesses

"You folks do an awesome job and I always appreciate your human touch..."
-- Eric Gil and Team Sockmith (Sockshop and Shoe Company)

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BanditoBooks.com is probably the largest-scale project we've ever attempted: this is an online magazine (eZine) for a maverick publishing company featuring streaming video, a complete Content Management System supporting hundreds of pages of multimedia content, and an e-store.

We performed all aspects of this site's design and construction: from logo design to site design, editorial support, programming, deployment of and systems administration for a dedicated apache web server, and page production on the site. We even did the interior and jacket design for the first Bandito Book: Can't You Get Along With Anyone? by Allan Weisbecker. Oh yeah, and John helped edit the book too.

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Iluminada Design has an extensive web design portfolio ranging from high-end eCommerce websites to basic informational sites... with everything in-between.

Some featured projects include:

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Iluminada Design is a Santa Cruz web design studio specializing in custom web design, eCommerce solutions, logo/identity design and opensource web application development for small to mid-sized businesses around the world.

We believe elegant design and utilitarian function are one in the same. A good website looks as good as it works. Period. All the websites we build focus on a top-to-bottom total integration of form and function. When it comes to your business’ web presence, elegance of both function & style is everything.

Since 1999, we have taken pride in developing high-quality websites, shopping carts, logos, content management systems, print marketing materials and online communities for reasonable rates, while establishing strong, lasting, mutually beneficial, trust-based relationships with our clients and development team.

We're a local company with a national (and international) reach: we currently service clients in California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Michigan, New York, South Dakota, Florida, Mexico, Indonesia and Costa Rica.