Shane Bogue Projects

Valley West Web

My web studio, and the site I hand-coded for it

Black and white web page on a faint blueprint grid: a VW monogram at top left, a diagonal black band behind a circular text sphere, and the headline "Your local web development studio" on the right.
The Valley West Web homepage. Fig. 1 2024–present
  • Venture
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Year
2024–present
Role
Founder; designed and built the studio site
Org
Valley West Web
Stack
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, p5.js (WebGL), Web Audio API and 2 more

I started Valley West Web to build websites for small businesses and entrepreneurs in the Phoenix area: custom sites, online stores, redesigns, maintenance and integrations, plus SEO, local search and ad campaigns. The studio's own site is a hand-written single-page app with a blueprint look, a rotating WebGL text sphere, small UI sounds and the line "From Sketch To Screen."

Problem

A new local studio needed a site that looked like nobody else's, loaded fast and could be found in search, built without a framework or a build step.

Thin topographic contour lines.
Contour-line background artwork from the site. Fig. 2

Approach

Plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript. One data module holds every page's content and a page manager swaps it in without reloading. The sphere is a p5.js WebGL sketch that loads when the browser is idle and runs at 30 fps, and the sounds come from the Web Audio API. For search: schema.org JSON-LD, Open Graph and Twitter cards, a canonical URL, a sitemap and robots file, and prerendered routes so crawlers see every page.

Process

6 dated steps, from the project’s history

  1. 01

    First upload

    The whole site in one commit: index.html, a 1,490-line stylesheet, and modules for pages, the orbit animation, sound and UI pieces, along with the VW monogram and a topographic line background. See Fig. 1, above.

  2. 02

    Sphere scales with the screen

    Made the rotating WebGL text sphere resize with the viewport.

  3. 03

    Custom domain

    Set up the valleywestweb.com domain.

  4. 04

    SEO pass

    Meta tags, sitemap and robots, then prerendered single-page routes so search engines can read them.

  5. 05

    Speed pass

    Minified p5.js, converted images to WebP and changed how the sphere loads so the page feels faster.

    A black serif VW monogram.
    The VW monogram. Fig. 3

  6. 06

    No more flash

    Fixed the flash of unstyled content on first load.

Results

Live at valleywestweb.com, served by Vercel (checked October 23, 2026). The site lists six development services and five marketing services.