Ann Arbor’s 3.7 Designs creates websites and jobs

Talk to the people behind 3.7 Designs and they’ll tell you they don’t just build websites. They create the website, strategize how to attract visitors to the website and troubleshoot any problems that arise on the website.The downtown Ann Arbor-based firm recently created sites for the city of Howell’s street improvement program as well as ArborVitae, which deals with pregnancy problems. 3.7 Designs focused not only on their creation but also their accessibility to potential users.”We want to work with people to have successful websites,” says Ross Johnson, CEO of 3.7 Designs.Johnson started 3.7 Designs in 2004 as a part-time freelancer and made it his full-time job in 2005. Today the firm employs three people and is looking to hire another web developer or two within the year.”It’s really more about finding the right person, not just any person,” Johnson says.Johnson hopes to do that by attracting bigger clients. The firm got its start creating start-up webpages and the like. It has now moved onto smaller organizations, but would like to take on even bigger ones in the near future.”It’s been really busy,” Johnson says.Source: Ross Johnson, CEO of 3.7 DesignsWriter: Jon Zemke