Twenty years of building things, one client at a time.
From side projects to a studio.
Little Frog Innovations was founded by Ian LeBlanc in Largo, Florida, in 2005 — but the story starts a bit earlier. Ian began doing computer repair and contract web development on the side in 1998, which led to PHP programming work and, in 2002, an e-commerce site that grew to over 50,000 visitors a month within months of launch. That project taught Ian a lot about web design from the customer's side of the screen.
Around that time, Ian met graphic artist Tyrone Thurston on a contract job, and the two began working together. In 2005, Ian incorporated Little Frog Innovations to focus on web design and development full time.
In 2017, after thirteen years in Tampa, we relocated to Colorado Springs, Colorado — and our focus has stayed the same ever since: helping small businesses build a stronger online presence.
Why "Little Frog"?
The name has been in our founder's family for three generations. Ian's grandfather, a French Canadian from New Brunswick, moved to British Columbia to start a logging outfit in the mid-1900s. Loggers gave each other nicknames — and one of the more polite ones for a short Frenchman was "Little Frog."
When Ian's father started his own logging company in the early 1970s, he had to submit name options to the Canadian government. As a joke, he added "Little Frog Logging" as a third option — and that's the one that got approved.
Decades later, when Ian and Tyrone were brainstorming names for the new company, they kept landing on "Innovations." In the same spirit as his father, Ian suggested "Little Frog Innovations" — and it stuck.
Cloud & API integration, e-commerce, mobile apps, and web design.
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