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Karen A. Chase Site Wins eLit Gold Medal for Best Author Website

April 27th, 2012 • by Niki • 3 Comments

I’m thrilled to announce that a site I programmed for Richmond author Karen A. Chase has won gold in the eLit awards! This site was designed by Karen, and Christina Reeser at io studio and I did the programming.

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Geek[ess] Refresh

April 13th, 2012 • by Niki • No Comments

So I was supposed to take this week off. I wanted to make some improvements to my website, which has been irritating me for a while now because it’s looking kinda shabby. But I didn’t get to spend much time on my site at all, because a bunch of other things needed attention. Fortunately, I had marked up the redesign as a static site in

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Living with Lucy Personal Blog

Living with Lucy Blog

March 30th, 2012 • by Niki • No Comments

This site was just fun. A week or so before Christmas, I got a call from a guy who wanted a site for his wife as a Christmas present. He tells me she’s funny and a good writer, and I think, suuuuuuure she is. But I say I’ll try to bust this site out in record time, because he’s nice, it’s an imaginative gift idea,

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Brett LaGue, Fine Artist

March 9th, 2012 • by Niki • 1 Comment

It was such a treat to create this site for Brett LaGue, and I’ve been looking forward to blogging about it. Brett, a prolific artist, needed an updated site that would allow him to easily showcase his art. Brett’s homepage has all his main content right there, I kept the excerpts short and included lots of pictures. This site was a little bit tricky to

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The Tech Lady Logo

March 1st, 2012 • by Niki • 4 Comments

For this project, I returned to my print design roots to create a logo for Amy Lucas, a computer technician and social media guru. Amy’s the person you call when your computer dies and you have that terrible sick feeling that you just lost everything. To me, computer techs are like superheroes – so that was my inspiration when creating this logo. In addition to

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