After a 35 year advertising and journalism career, Karin studied website design and development and was
certified as a website developer by Kennesaw State University.
The first website that Karin began to work on was developed by her
brother-in-law Rich. Karin has expanded on his initial design to reflect
the ever increasing diversity of activity undertaken by
The Cobb Land Trust Inc.
While development of Froghaven News Online began, Karin
started work on a site for Larry's business,
Adjustment Services, Inc., and building links from other
appropriate sites that referenced it. Frogncats.com first resided on six
different websites and appeared to be one through links. Now it has a home of
it's own.
Through a friend who is the director of a local library, Karin
became aware of the Friends of the Smyrna Library, a volunteer group in need of
a better website to communicate to the community. She managed this site
pro bono for several years before turning it over to a board member of FOSL.
The Georgia Perennial Plant Assoc. already had a webmaster,
with whom Karin worked as the organization contact. Now she is able to
better communicate the needs of the group as well as assist in developing new
pages to add to the site.
Courtyards of Vinings
Homeowners Association was the first client of Karin's web development business
and others have followed.
One of the Courtyards residents introduced Karin
to IPREX, an international public relations
alliance, in need of a website makeover. This project involved finding
venders who could take the inquiry-based site to a new level and work with those
developers to give the client the user-friendly interface that they were looking
for.
A natural alliance for Karin is
Scottsdale Farms Garden Center in
Alpharetta, GA. The needs of this destination nursery are to develop more uses
for their existing website, enhance the current site, and most importantly
enhance their search engine results. Having a website is great.
Having customers find it is even better.
Through a former acquaintance who has entered the
field of secure web communications, Karin became involved with the site of
Piedmont Eyecare in Charlotte,
North Carolina. Dr. Scott Phillipe wanted to offer his patients the
convenience of buying their contact lenses online, so an e-commerce module was
added to the Piedmont website.
Karin's niche seems to be picking up the web
sites of young developer's who build it and lose interest in the boring
maintenance and updates required after the fun of the creative process.
Now, Karin is networked with graphic designers, and other
resources who bring a diversity of expertise to the table to satisfy the needs
of both small and large clients.