Chris Powers
Owner | Designer
Graphic Gato, LLC
About Me
It's a pleasure to meet you! I'm the proud owner of Graphic Gato, LLC - a digital marketing agency that specializes in crafting visually striking, highly adaptable websites.
Additionally, we also excel at overseeing Google and Facebook ad campaigns. Let me help you Get Yourself Out There!
About Company
Graphic Gato is a small, hands-on studio. I keep it that way on purpose. When an agency grows past a certain size, clients start feeling like accounts instead of people, and details fall through the cracks. I'd rather know your business than manage your account.
Every project starts with a discovery meeting, not a sales pitch. I ask what's actually slowing your business down, then build a site around that, not a template. Every site is built with SEO and GEO from day one, so the people searching for what you do can find you organically. That means traffic that keeps showing up long after launch, not traffic that disappears the day you turn off the ads.
I work with owner-operators and decision-makers who want a website their own team can manage and grow with them. My clients aren't one-time transactions. They're relationships I stay in for years, which is why I still call them clients, not customers.
Experience
"Responsible for all social media for the entire campus including the Development and Education Resources departments. This consists ofmaintaining multipleFacebook,Twitter,and Instagram accounts. I'm also responsible for the the development and updating of multiple websites the school uses. These websites include videos, which I have produced, and online stores, which I have set up and maintain in order to sell products. Responsible for maintaining the Technology Dept. budget in order for all of the technology used in the school to remain updated and consistent with the needs of the classrooms. Responsible for making sure any and all technology within the school is maintained. Responsible for filming, editing and setting up webinars to be either live or viewable in an archive format by individuals who wish to pay to participate in the live edition or to view them as the archived edition. Maintain the security door schedule for the school. This includes making sure the doors are unlocked and locked throughout the year for various events as well as the day-to-day schedules."
Responsible for marketing content and company presence. This includes logo design, website design and maintenance, brochure and other printed materials creation, and social media. Re-branded a company that was over 25 years old to bring it up to date and move it forward in today’s market.
Used 3D Studio Max, Photoshop, Flash, PHP, and XML to design and create a Flash-based MMORPG. This included 3D assets of characters, environments, props, and programming the interactivity between the user and the game.
Helped create and maintain schedules and workflow for the entire art team.
Used 3D Studio Max, Photoshop, and the Vicious Cycle Engine to create and help design a full game level. This included 3D assets of characters, environments, props, and mini-games design. I work ed clos ely with the level designers to help maintain continuity across the game with regard to the look and feel of the assets and mini-games.
Education
Otis College of Art and Design's Digital Media BFA is a four-year program in Los Angeles that trains students in visual storytelling across Animation and Game and Entertainment Design, alongside Motion Design. The program has developed for more than 25 years to keep pace with the animation industry, and the Animation track is STEM-designated, blending technical and creative training. Students work with rendering, modeling, mathematics, character design, and complex graphics, and Otis has been recognized as a Toon Boom Centre of Excellence, giving students access to industry-standard tools like Toon Boom Harmony and Storyboard Pro.
Graduates go on to work in film, TV, games, and visual effects, with past employers including Pixar, Disney, DreamWorks, WETA, ILM, Electronic Arts, and Blizzard.
Appearances
Chris Powers will be helping us navigate the quickly chaining landscape of SEO and how AI is changing the game. As AI continues to evolve, its integration into digital marketing and SEO has fundamentally altered how content is optimized, understood, and ranked by search engines. We'll look at the cutting-edge AI tools reshaping SEO workflows, discuss the challenges and ethical considerations of AI in SEO, and speculate on future trends that will further influence the SEO landscape.
Chris Powers from Stacks Basecamp has released a new project file that gives you a full Ecommerce website with no fees. Starlight is powered by Foundation 6, Total CMS and Vibracart. In today's live stream you will get a full tour.
I will be covering "refactoring". Basically, how to optimize the code in your RapidWeaver project so it loads faster and is a better overall experience for you as the developer and the end user.
In last week's live stream, we made built a stack from scratch. At the end of the stream I challenged everyone to build the same stack using Foundation 6 swatches. Chris Powers accepted the challenge and built exactly that. Chris is joining me today to show off how he built the layout card with animation effects.
Chris launched Weaver Base Site this year and it’s a new take on project files for RapidWeaver. I don't want to spoil it for you here, you will have to attend the live stream and find out! Chris has been a very active member of the Weaver's Space community and spoke at the WS Conference last year. This should be a fun chat.
I'll be covering how I go about spinning up a new website for just about any new client that comes my way in a quick and efficient process. You'll see how I've done all the hard grunt work up front so I can focus on the client's needs and the design of the website.
Accolades & Awards
Groups & Associations
BNI (Business Network International) is a referral-based networking organization built around structured, ongoing relationships rather than one-off mixers. Members join local chapters, each of which allows only one representative per profession or industry, so there's no internal competition for referrals. Chapters meet weekly, where members give short "commercial" pitches about their business, share leads, and pass qualified referrals to each other.
The core philosophy is "Givers Gain": the idea that consistently helping other members generate business for them is what earns you referrals in return. Beyond the weekly meetings, members typically do one-to-ones with other chapter members to build deeper relationships and understand each other's businesses well enough to refer effectively.
Weaver's Space is an educational community for RapidWeaver and Stacks developers who want to build faster with a real content management system instead of piecing together workarounds. It's built around Foundation 6 (the layout framework) and Total CMS 3 (the content engine), tied together through Caisson, a ready-to-go starter project that gets you building instead of configuring. Members get tutorials, documentation, and access to private coaching to actually apply what they learn to real client sites, not just theory.
At its core, it's for RapidWeaver users who are tired of hacking together solutions and want a proper system for building content-driven sites efficiently.

