# Writing: Good Work

From the ten years I ran Good Work, the agency I started in 2014.

- [Ten years of Good Work](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/ten-years-of-good-work.md) (2024-03-04): This month we celebrate our TENTH lap around the sun, marking the journey from a desk behind a couch in a living room to a highly respected team of web developers and project managers, trusted by hundreds of clients…
- [Expanding our services: Introducing ‘Friends of Good Work’](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/friends-of-good-work.md) (2023-05-16): Positioning a digital agency is always tricky and it often pays to have a niche. We’re known for being a web development studio specializing in Craft CMS development.
- [How to master GDPR and CCPA compliance: a step-by-step guide to handling website cookies](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/how-to-master-gdpr-ccpa-compliance-step-by-step-guide-to-website-cookies.md) (2023-04-15): In today’s digital world, privacy concerns have taken center stage, prompting governments to enact regulations that protect user data.
- [Three reasons most digital projects get derailed (and why yours doesn’t have to)](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/3-reasons-most-digital-projects-get-derailed.md) (2023-01-03): How many times have your digital projects gone off the rails?
- [Three things your project manager should be doing for you (but probably isn’t)](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/3-things-your-project-manager-should-be-doing-for-you.md) (2022-10-06): Too often web development teams let you down. Good project management is the exception, not the rule. Clients have become conditioned to believe that sub-par systems and broken processes are the cost of doing business.
- [Eight lessons learned from eight years of Good Work](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/eight-lessons-learned-from-eight-years-of-good-work.md) (2022-08-29): What eight years of running Good Work taught me: don’t rush to specialize, don’t fear taking on money, delegate early, hire smart, trust generously and document everything.
- [Three tips to improving your website (without starting over)](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/3-tips-to-improving-your-website-without-starting-over.md) (2022-07-19): It used to be that a website was a static repository of anything and everything a company wanted to say about itself and its products or services.
- [How to use Google Analytics 4 to improve your website](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/how-to-use-ga4-to-improve-your-website.md) (2022-05-16): Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is a powerful upgrade from the previous Universal Analytics (UA). It provides a more user-centric approach to understanding and optimizing your website.
- [Creating a culture of balance](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/creating-a-culture-of-balance.md) (2022-02-28): I believe if you do good, quality work, communicate well and invest in an environment that people want to be a part of, all the rest will fall into place.
- [WordPress vs Craft CMS: which should you choose?](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/should-you-choose-craft-cms-or-wordpress.md) (2022-02-14): Content management systems (CMSs) allow you to create, edit and manage pages and content on your website with little need for ongoing development support.
- [Top Craft CMS plugins used at Good Work, Part Deux](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/top-craft-cms-plugins-used-at-good-work-part-two.md) (2021-05-18): We’ve lived and breathed Craft CMS at Good Work since day one, and once again have asked each member of our development team to select their top Craft CMS plugins.
- [Seven years of Good Work](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/7-years-of-good-work.md) (2021-03-03): Somehow I blinked and it’s time for the SEVENTH Good Work birthday message. I wrote last year’s message days before our company retreat in Austin, Texas, where we talked through our big plans for 2020 and beyond.
- [Donkeytail use cases for Craft CMS](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/donkeytail-use-cases-for-craft-cms.md) (2020-12-02): Last month we launched Donkeytail, a Craft CMS plugin that allows website administrators to easily place points on images. Below are a few examples of how Donkeytail could be useful for your next website project.
- [Donkeytail plugin for Craft CMS 3 and 4](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/donkeytail-plugin-craft-cms.md) (2020-11-06): A few years back we created an internal plugin for our team to help content manage points on images in Craft CMS.
- [Our part in small business digital transformation](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/our-part-in-small-business-digital-transformation.md) (2020-03-23): We’re all having to come to grips with the massive changes COVID-19 has brought to our day-to-day lives, both from a health and economic perspective.
- [Six years of Good Work](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/6-years-of-good-work.md) (2020-03-03): I look forward to this post every year where I get to go off-topic (for our blog, at least) and publicly reflect on what we’ve accomplished over the previous 365 days as a company.
- [Regularly scheduled website audits](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/regularly-scheduled-website-audits.md) (2020-02-26): I recently wrote ‘How to use Google Analytics to improve your website,’ an article about making strategic website planning decisions by prioritizing, tracking and analyzing your goals with Google Analytics.
- [How to use Google Analytics 3 to improve your website](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/how-to-use-google-analytics-to-improve-your-website.md) (2020-02-17): This article details improving your website with Google Analytics 3 (UA). For Google Analytics 4 (GA4), please read ‘How to use Google Analytics 4 to improve your website’
- [A guide to improving your website in the new year](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/a-guide-to-improving-your-website-in-the-new-year.md) (2019-12-18): ‘Tis the season to reflect on the previous year and begin planning our future business goals and the projects we’ll need to tackle - both online and offline - to help us get there.
- [Continuous improvements over website redesigns](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/continuous-improvements-over-website-redesigns.md) (2019-11-15): In today's world it's no longer viable to complete a website redesign process with the expectation that you're done upon launch.
- [A successful website development process](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/successful-website-development-process.md) (2019-10-15): Good Work was created around developing websites for design and marketing teams.
- [Use cases for a Craft Multi-Site setup](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/use-cases-for-craft-multi-site.md) (2019-08-15): The team at Good Work is no stranger to Craft CMS, and we love highlighting its great features, both from the development and user side of things.
- [How to implement a bulletproof QA process](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/how-to-implement-a-bullet-proof-quality-assurance-process.md) (2019-06-01): The development phase of your website is complete and you’re ready for launch. However, before going live you need to engage in a thorough quality assurance (QA) process.
- [How to set up an SEO-friendly Craft CMS website](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/how-to-setup-an-seo-friendly-craft-cms-website.md) (2019-05-15): Outside of general ease-of-use and editing capabilities, it's important to choose a content management system that has the tools and features required for your content editors to maintain an SEO-friendly website.
- [Top Craft CMS plugins used at Good Work](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/top-craft-cms-plugins-used-at-good-work.md) (2019-03-15): Heads up! This article was written in the Spring of 2019. Check out Part Deux for a more up-to-date list.
- [Five years of Good Work](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/5-years-of-good-work.md) (2019-03-03): I don’t know how many times I’ve read our previous birthday messages in the last few months, but it’s a lot. I love looking back and reading old birthday posts to see the progress we’ve made.
- [Updating your website to Craft CMS 3](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/updating-your-website-to-craft-cms-3.md) (2019-03-01): This article is about update your website to Craft 3. If you’re looking to upgrade to Craft 4 you should read Update Craft CMS 3 to 4.
- [Building modular websites with Craft CMS](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/building-modular-websites-with-craft-cms.md) (2019-02-01): We were recently scoping out a website redesign project in Craft CMS with one of our design agency partners.
- [Developing a Craft CMS website maintenance plan](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/craft-cms-website-maintenance-plan.md) (2019-01-15): Over the years we’ve developed and maintained dozens of Craft CMS websites.
- [Four years of Good Work](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/4-years-of-good-work.md) (2018-03-03): It’s hard to believe this is the 4th Good Work birthday message.
- [Technical SEO checklist](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/technical-seo-checklist.md) (2017-04-20): Our Technical SEO Checklist is updated regularly to ensure it’s as accurate as possible.
- [The first Good Bracket](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/first-good-bracket.md) (2017-03-31): Earlier this month we created our first annual Good Bracket — a March Madness starter kit for facilitating your design agency’s office pool.
- [Three years of Good Work](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/3-years-of-good-work.md) (2017-03-03): I spent the last few days thinking about where we came from, where we’re at, and where we’re going.
- [Two years of Good Work](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/2-years-of-good-work.md) (2016-03-03): Year two was a big one for us. We matured from an international team of contractors to a full time staff of four. We went all in on Craft CMS and even got to throw in a ski trip at the end to close it all out.
- [Nailing the basics](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/nailing-the-basics.md) (2015-03-24): The magic bullet to a successful digital project is readable content, usable forms and intelligent website structure. Nail these basics and you’ve nailed your digital project, whatever it is.
- [One year of Good Work](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/1-year-of-good-work.md) (2015-03-03): One year ago today I sat down at my home office in Houston, Texas for day one of Good Work.
- [It’s time for enterprise software to catch up](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/its-time-for-enterprise-software-to-catch-up.md) (2014-07-11): We live in a world where digital has completely changed the way we interact with just about every major industry.
- [Low-risk onboarding consultancy projects](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/low-risk-onboarding-consultancy-projects.md) (2014-06-30): Before jumping into a long-term relationship with a new client, I like to start with a small week or two long onboarding consultancy to test the waters.
- [The value of user experience in business web applications](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/value-of-user-experience-in-enterprise-software.md) (2014-06-15): It’s no secret that investing in your workplace proves just as valuable, if not more valuable, than investing in outward-facing marketing projects. Take enterprise software, for instance.
- [An introduction to Good Work](https://garrettwinder.com/simplygoodwork/an-introduction-to-good-work.md) (2014-05-18): In 2007 I started a small web design company with my college roommate. We got an office downtown a few days after graduating and went door to door looking for business. I was the website guy, he was the business guy.