Drake Recio
Co-Founder · Design & Front-End
Handles the half of the work you can see — design direction, layouts, typography, and the front-end code that brings it to life. Lives for a good editorial spread and a tight type stack.
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Who we are
A small studio. Big-city standards.
PixelForge is a tight team of independent coders working out of Ocean Springs, Mississippi. We build websites that compete with anything coming out of Atlanta, Austin, or New Orleans — for the kind of price that makes sense for a Gulf Coast small business.
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The team
Two co-founders. That's it.
No middle managers, no account executives, no junior team handing off to senior team. When you hire PixelForge, you hire us — and we build your site ourselves.
Clayton Johnson
Co-Founder · Engineering & SEO
Handles the half of the work that makes it actually work — integrations, performance, search visibility, and the back-end glue. Reads Core Web Vitals patch notes for fun. Mostly.
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Why Ocean Springs
Rooted in the Gulf Coast. On purpose.
Ocean Springs is a town of artists, builders, and small business owners. It's where we live, where our families are, and where most of our clients are too. That proximity matters — we can meet for coffee, walk through a storefront before designing for it, and stay on call when something breaks the day before tax season.
We don't outsource. We don't subcontract overseas. The work is done here, by us, on Government Street.
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What we believe
Three things we won't compromise on.
No templates
We don't ship someone else's design with your logo on it.
Every site is designed and coded for one specific business. We won't ship you the same Squarespace template your competitor down the street is also running.
Local + reachable
You'll talk to the person who wrote your CSS.
No call-center script. No help-desk tickets. When you text Drake, Drake texts back — usually within an hour during business hours.
ROI is the brief
A pretty site that doesn't drive customers is a failure.
We measure success in your booked appointments, online orders, and inbound leads — not design-award entries.
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In their words
What it's like to work with us.
Drake designed something that actually looks like our space, not a generic restaurant template. We've gotten compliments from out-of-town guests who Googled us before driving in.
Clayton quoted a number, hit the number, and shipped on the day he said he would. The site has tripled our consultation requests in six months.
My Google ranking for 'Ocean Springs CPA' moved from page three to position two in about ten weeks. That's real money in my door.
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Say hello
Let's grab a coffee.
Local or remote — we're happy either way. Tell us about your project and we'll figure out the best way to talk.
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