Downhill Media is a web design and development firm based in Warren, Vermont. We offer mobile-first web design, web development, writing, editing, photo editing, content management, and webmaster services.
Selected work
A few of the sites currently running. More in the full portfolio.
2002 — presentMore of the work
A partial list. Some sites are still running; some retired with their owners. All of them were small projects done one at a time.
— Film & documentary
- Cielo Films
- Phoolan: The Official Movie
- Life Life Film
- Crazy Wisdom
- Social Media Darling Productions*
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Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
Built to carry the film from Kickstarter through production. Netflix picked it up.
— Authors & artists
- Archer Mayor
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Shelley Warren Studio*
Sculptor. Retired from her studio and from teaching. -
Moosewalk Studios & Gallery*
Gary Eckhart’s watercolors and Roarke Sharlow’s photography. A long relationship that ended with Gary’s passing. - YozellPhoto
- Bell Family History*
— Vermont, locally
- Allen Clark Hill Climb*
- Mad River Valley Insider
- Appalachian Landscaping & MadTrees*
- PepperTree Homes*
- Thomas Engineering Associates*
- Vermont Music Fest
- KidsACT
- Hands At Home Care Services
— Business & professional
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Get Life Insurance Now*
High-risk life insurance brokerage. Live since 2009, many rebuilds along the way. - Backbone Capital Advisors*
- True Compliance Group
- Retirement Planning for Cops
- Calypso Continuing Education
- K-Tor Human Powered Generators*
- ECS Video Systems*
- Next Level Cleaning
- All-Star Storage
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Rent Palm Beach County
The site paid for itself. Then she closed the business and went back to sales. - National Senior Golf Association
- UCSB Delts*
— Food & hospitality
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Hyde Away Inn & Restaurant*
The first site of the practice — built before Downhill Media existed, still running. - Pizza in the Valley
- EspressoLuv Coffee Roasters
- Coffee Source
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Le Bistro du Lac
Twenty-plus years on Lake Champlain, until the owners retired.
— Around the world
- Wisdom Tours*
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Wisdom Study Abroad*
Jim Hagan ran study-abroad programs in Tibetan Buddhist Asia for twenty years. We built and rebuilt the sites that carried students there. He’s retired now.
Long relationships, mostly. I was glad to do the work. * = 20+ years
“I have received many compliments on my website. Many people believe my business is larger than it really is, in part due to the professionalism of my website. Michael has been a pleasure to work with, reliable and efficient.”
Britt Terrell Managing Director, Backbone Capital · client since 2012
Built once. Rebuilt when it’s time.
Websites are working tools, not monuments. The goal is a site that does its job quietly for a long time — legible, updatable, and honest about what it is.
I handle the whole thing: design, development, the writing when it helps, and the quiet years afterward. Most clients are still with me a decade later; some closer to two.
Design
Mobile-first. Built by hand.
Development
Custom code. No page builder bloat.
Writing & editing
Copy that sounds like you, optimized for search and AI.
Ongoing care
Updates, refreshes, rebuilds.