I just returned from an extended trip to Peru where I had the opportunity to offer my expertise to a self-sustaining, community organization that provides kids in Cusco with an after-school learning program free of charge. It was an enlightening experience and gave me a renewed perception of time and productivity. Meetings were often chaotic [...]
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This is an article about the various hats I wear when enlisted to “make a website happen.” I would say “build a website,” but that’s misleading.
The most common misperception among many of my clients is that I sit down at my computer immediately after one conversation and design their website. Unlike most traditional media, a [...]
The search for custom solutions, as I’ve developed this custom theme, has been ongoing and exhaustive. For the most part, searching for what I’m looking for has produced an abundance of results and my task has simply been weeding through to find the optimal solution. Not so when today, as I rounded out comment styling, [...]
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My Google Reader delivered to me this morning a wondrous gift. I subscribe to Brian Cray’s blog about social experience design and – what joy! what rapture! – he’s written on a subject near and dear to my heart; wireframing. In advising, “How to Start Wireframing,” my dear Mr. Cray mentions some tools that were, [...]
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Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results. As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines work and what people search for. Optimizing a website primarily involves editing its content and [...]
July 31, 2010
"The word that comes to mind when describing Kjersti is diverse. She is a brilliant problem-solver, creative thinker and showed an exceptional amount of initiative for projects inside and outside of her group..."
Hello, my name is Kjersti. This is my online portfolio of website design and development. I specialize in creating websites that are as easy for users to use as they are for their owners to maintain...
