Two friends, one studio, building websites in Oregon since 2012.
Abide is a two-person Corvallis studio — Josh Armentano and David Weidenbacher — building custom WordPress and WooCommerce sites for churches, nonprofits, public agencies, schools, and small businesses across Oregon. You work with us directly, and most of our clients stay with us for years.
Abide Web Design is a small Corvallis, Oregon studio founded in 2012 by Josh Armentano. David Weidenbacher joined as Creative Director in 2020. Since then we’ve built and maintained custom WordPress and WooCommerce sites for churches, nonprofits, public agencies, schools, and small businesses across Oregon — with a model anchored in long-term partnerships, direct partner access, and unhurried craft.
Our story
Abide began with a name, a calling, and a church plant.
In 2012, Josh Armentano founded Abide Web Design in Corvallis, Oregon, alongside his work as a bi-vocational pastor at The Branch — a young church plant in the same neighborhood. The studio's name reflects the same conviction that shaped the church: a call to abide in something larger than the work itself. To create with care. To stay with clients rather than churn through them. To make beautiful things — websites, identities, communications — that reflect, in some small way, the creative beauty of the God we believe in.
We don't take on more clients than we can serve well. We don't outsource the work. We build sites we'll still be proud to look at five years from now — because most of our clients will still be with us five years from now.
That conviction became the operating model. We don't take on more clients than we can serve well. We don't outsource the work. We don't churn through projects looking for the next sale. We build sites we'll still be proud to look at five years from now — because most of our clients will still be with us five years from now.
In 2020, David Weidenbacher joined Josh as a partner. David brought ten years of multidisciplinary design experience and a calm, considered eye for typography, color, and brand. Their friendship and complementary skill sets created the natural shape Abide has had ever since: Josh leading development, David leading visual identity and design.
Today, Abide is the same two people it's always been — Josh and David, still in Corvallis, still working directly with every client, still building things we believe in. The clients have grown more interesting over the years (we've been trusted with public school districts, statewide trade associations, MLB-level athletic suppliers, and family-of-brands food companies), but the model is unchanged: a small studio doing thoughtful work, one project at a time.
How we work
Four things that shape every project.
01
Long-term partnerships, not project handoff
Most agencies launch your site and disappear. We don't. Most of our clients have been with us for five years or more. We host the sites we build, maintain them, and continue developing them as your organization grows. The relationships are why this works.
02
You work with us directly
When you call (541) 224-5048, you reach Josh or David. No tier-one help desk, no outsourced developers, no rotating account managers, no scripted responses. We're a small studio with a manageable client roster — by design, so we can answer the phone and actually know your site when we pick up.
03
Custom, not templated
Every site we build is custom — no page builders, no Elementor, no Divi, no theme marketplaces. We design and develop with PHP, native WordPress templating, and lightweight native WordPress page blocks. The result is a site that's faster, cleaner, easier to maintain, and unmistakably your organization's — not a stock pattern with your logo dropped in.
04
Quiet, unhurried craft
We're not trying to scale. We don't have an agency factory. We don't take on more work than we can do well. That means projects move at the right pace — neither rushed nor stalled — and the work that ships is work we're genuinely proud of. Slow software is bad. Slow craft is fine.
Meet the team
Two partners. One studio.
Partner | Web Developer
Josh Armentano
Josh is a passionate communicator who loves to tell compelling stories. Since founding Abide in 2012, he’s leveraged that passion by coming alongside clients and helping them elevate their digital marketing and brand communication to better engage their audiences. Josh works closely with each client to ensure they receive a high level of service and support.
Josh started Abide Web Design with the goal of engaging in bi-vocational pastoral ministry with The Branch in Corvallis, Oregon. Abide was born out of his vision to strive to create beautiful websites and designs that reflect, in some small way, the creative beauty of his God.
David is a thoughtful designer who loves finding the intersection between business strategy, user experience, and brand expression. With over ten years of multidisciplinary design experience, David crafts beautiful and purposeful designs that bridge the gap between organizations and their audiences. In 2020, David joined Josh — their friendship and complementary skills the natural combination to accommodate Abide’s growing client work.
When David’s not designing, you’ll find him hanging out with his family, rock climbing, or perfecting his morning cup of coffee. As Creative Director, David brings a calm, considered eye to every project — shaping typography, color, and layout decisions that make each site feel unmistakably its own.
We work across a focused set of industries where our specialties and our convictions align — public sector, faith-based, nonprofit, education, agriculture, small business, and e-commerce. Each has its own rhythms, and we've built deep institutional knowledge in all of them.
Yes — just Josh and David. When one of us is unavailable, the other handles client communications and any urgent work. For ongoing maintenance and hosting, our managed infrastructure keeps sites running smoothly even when we're not at our desks. We coordinate vacations and significant travel ahead of time so clients aren't surprised. The smallness is intentional — it's part of how we keep relationships strong and quality high.
"Abide" reflects a conviction that shaped the studio from day one: to remain with something, to dwell, to stay. Josh founded Abide alongside his work as a pastor at The Branch — a young church plant in Corvallis — and the name reflects the same call to stay rooted in something larger than the work itself. Practically, it shapes how we do business: we abide with clients rather than churn through them.
Yes, and not in a complicated way. Both partners are Christians. The studio was founded alongside Josh's work as a pastor at The Branch in Corvallis, and we work with a number of churches and faith-based organizations. That said, we work with all kinds of organizations — public agencies, nonprofits, businesses, schools — regardless of their religious affiliation. Our faith shapes how we work (carefully, honestly, with long-term commitment), not who we'll work with.
Josh lives in Corvallis, Oregon. A few years ago, David moved back home to Iowa with his family, but comes back a few times a year to work and hang out! We work with clients across Oregon — Corvallis, Albany, Salem, McMinnville, West Linn, Douglas County, Lincoln County, and beyond — and we've also worked with clients in Texas, California, Iowa, and Washington when the fit is right. But Oregon is the center of gravity.
Both. Most of our work happens remotely from our Corvallis studio — that's how we keep costs manageable and how most modern web work is done. For clients in the Corvallis-Albany-Salem corridor, we're happy to meet in person when it's useful. For school districts, public agencies, and clients with stakeholder review processes, on-site visits can be especially helpful at key project milestones.
It means we expect to work with you for years, not months. Most of our clients have been with us for 5+ years. Some have been with us for over a decade. We host the sites we build, maintain them as WordPress and the web evolve, and continue developing new features as your organization grows. The relationship doesn't end at launch — that's typically when the most meaningful work begins.
The honest answer: we're not trying to be a larger agency. Bigger agencies have more capacity but more overhead, more handoffs, and less continuity. We have the opposite tradeoff — limited capacity, but you work with us directly, your project doesn't get handed across teams, and the same two people who built your site are still around five years later to maintain and evolve it. That model fits some organizations beautifully and doesn't fit others. We'll be honest about which when we talk.
Yes, when there's a good fit. Most of our clients are in Oregon, but we've worked with churches in Texas, athletic suppliers serving the MLB, and other clients across the country. We don't actively market outside Oregon, but we welcome conversations from anywhere if the work matches what we do well.
Fill out our project inquiry form, email hello@abidewebdesign.com, or call us at (541) 224-5048. We'll get back to you with a free estimate and a time to talk through your project.
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