I just finished the design and development of theluminousbody.com for Sunny Speidel, a Vashon reiki master. Inspired by her "void" logo, I suggested to Sunny that we incorporate photos of outer space, and she loved the idea. When I put the photos taken by Hubble next to photos of human cells, it was interesting to find the tiny things that make up our physical body are much like what appears at times in the celestial body.

Sunny said, "I am so grateful for how much you've done to make this a beautiful and great website for me. I feel like I'm leaping!"

Also this year, I approached Kathryn Payne of Island Yoga Center about redesigning the center's website. Having practiced yoga at the center, I thought her current website, islandyogacenter.com, lacked the personality, warmth and calmness found at the studio. My redesign features photos of all the IYC teachers and students, color and the IYC logo Kathryn designed!

Susan Hesselgrave of Radiance Image Consulting hired me to create the visual design of her WordPress-powered website radianceimage.com. I also took Susan's portrait on a beautiful sunny day under a honeysuckle-covered arbor. For the graphics and background I chose glowing, flowing and flowering art.

The Vashonistas, a collective of awesome fashion designers on the island, needed a web page designed and developed in a pinch and called on me.

YES! Thanks for all your major efforts. It's lots artsy, yet clean and informational. Feels like we kicked it up a notch and are more professional! — a Vashonista

Clear Lighting Solutions hired me to develop an identity (logo, business card, website) to set them apart from other LED lighting providers. The company just needed a one page website for now. I designed and developed the site in XHTML and CSS. I created a dynamic jQuery slideshow of locations where LED lights can be used and wrote headlines targeting the solutions and benefits of LED lights. The website, clearlightingsolutions.com, is designed and developed to grow as the company grows.

Brandi DeFazio, who is launching a therapy practice in Issaquah this summer, needed a website design that reflected her calm presence and love of nature. She had a vision, along with a preferred color palette of green and purple, and an attraction to calligraphy fonts. In our initial Discovery meeting we bounced around ideas to graphically represent her. What resonated with me was her offer to get out of the office and walk with clients during sessions. Brandi loved my ideas of using photos of pathways and making the footer section a path containing her contact information. After a bit of a search, I found the perfect illustration of a branch for her logo-symbol. I created a custom template using CSS/XHTML and trained Brandi to update her site, brandidefazio.com.

"Jenn, thank you so much for everything. You made this process easy for me, and together we created a beautiful, clean, and easy to navigate site. You have a great eye, and helped break down this daunting process into sizable chunks for me. I found you very open to my ideas, plus willing to provide expert guidance when I needed it. Most of all you took the time to get to know me which assured the site creatively and accurately expresses ME and my business. I have already recommended you to several friends and colleagues." — Brandi DeFazio

Gourd artist Charlotte Masi was my first website client three years ago. This spring 2012 I redesigned her site charlottemasi.com. I widened the layout and added jQuery slideshows to the home and about pages. The gourd portfolios are now powered by Galleriffic, and using my CSS skills, I customized the gallery to fit the design.  I also created some new portraits of Charlotte and wrote her artist statement and bio. In addition, I trained her in some basic HTML so she can easily update the site herself.

"The great thing about working with Jenn is that she is multi-talented. She's a talented writer, takes amazing photos, and designs creative web pages! " —Charlotte Masi

Nicole Grey hired me for my portrait photography, editorial, graphic and CSS skills to help her design the pages of her website. The challenge for me was to fit a lot of content into the Fancybox pop out windows already in place, and do it in a way that the visitor would not have to scroll to see the information.

Amber Matusky is a Vashon Island doula who offers birth services and placenta encapsulation. On December 8, 2011 I launched her new website fruitofthewombbirthservices.com that I designed and developed in XHTML and CSS. I also created the logo.

"Jenn came highly recommended to me by several people when I began my search for a web designer. She was very fun to work with and she put together a beautiful site that really reflected me and my business in a quick, professional and affordable manner! I have already and will continue to recommend her to my friends for their web development needs! Thanks Jenn!"
— Amber Matusky

Jessa Zimmerman is a smart counselor who serves a wide range of clients. I helped her design and develop the website www.jessazimmerman.com to reflect her message of hope and possibility. I found photos of hands in nature to inspire the feelings of positive growth, love, and change clients can experience when working with Jessa. I created the drop down menu using only CSS. After the initial launch last fall, I customized a Wordpress blog for Jessa to publish her articles. I also trained her to update her website, and Jessa has changed the site to reflect the many ways her practice is growing.

"I saw a couple today in my office who said they came to see me because my website was so great. Thank you for finding a way to take who I am and what I do and create a powerful visual impression that communicates that!" — Jessa Zimmerman

I successfully launched www.welcomevashon.org in September for WelcomeVashon, a new nonprofit sponsoring community projects by Vashon Islanders. I designed and developed the site using CSS and XHTML.

Also, I am pleased to announce that I am now working as a writer and photographer for WelcomeVashon. I am doing a monthly interview series on "welcoming." Check it out at welcomevashon.org.

"You might try Jenn Reidel. She is now working on her second project for us and I have found her to be sincere, conscientious, on time, reasonable and fun and easy to work with."
— Dr. Daniel Kaufman

I designed and developed James Culbertson's new portfolio site www.jamesculbertson.com. He is a talented video editor who hosts his work on Vimeo. I used Colorbox to power his work reel and Galleriffic to view his photos.

Patrick Mc Manus is an Einstein look-a-like who is using his talents to help others find their genius. I am currently designing and developing his site discover-genius.com to help him promote his acting, speaking and mentoring talents. My design inspiration for the logo and type was sparked when, during my research, I noticed that Albert Einstein is often photographed in front of a chalkboard.

In July, I successfully launched www.vashoncentral.com, Vashon Island's first temp service and resource network. The new business, Vashon Central, is owned by Amy Wolff. I designed and developed the site. In addition, I took the photos of Vashon people at work and framed them like Polaroid snapshots using some new CSS I learned. Amy loves the site. Here is what she said, "The website is fantastic. Exactly what I wanted. I am so happy with it."

I recently had the good fortune to design the website www.redroverseattle.com for Red Rover Dog Walking Services, a new business for small dogs started by Devon Paget. I also took the feature photos for the site, including the portrait of Devon with her dogs Bunny and Boo. I thought it important to show Devon out in nature and active with the dogs since that is a big part of what she is offering her clients. The detail photos are of dogs Devon knows, and so we decided to include their names. I wish Red Rover much success!

In early December of 2010 I launched the new Dova Silks website. In addition to creating the visual design, I also developed the site. Included is a new jQuery-powered Gallery section. Now we are in 2011 and just about done with the Shop Boutique section. I have included one of the page designs here.

Donna Kellum has been framing art in her shop Frame of Mind for 30 years, and this week (September 20, 2010) I launched her first website www.vashonframeofmind.com. It was fun working with Donna to develop the site. She gave me her logo and said, "You do the rest!" And so I did the photography, copywriting, design, and development. What a wonderful achievement to be in business for 30 years, Donna! Welcome to the World Wide Web!

I recently completed the design and development of Seattle artist Julia Haack's website www.juliahaack.com.  I coded her portfolio site in XHTML, CSS and Javascript. I also taught Julie how to size her photos in Photoshop and FTP her images using Filezilla. This is a great skill for an artist to have, and helps her save money so she can make lots more art.

There is the most AMAZING place in the world called Turtlehead Farm on Orcas Island, and I had the most amazing opportunity to design and build the website for it! I developed the site in XHTML and powered the photo galleries with Lightbox. I also helped write the content and update it yearly. Check out the site at www.turtleheadfarm.com.

In my last quarter as a web design student at Seattle Central Community College, I was hired as a volunteer intern to redesign the Pat Graney Company website. The old site had some tables gone astray. My goal was to make the site more readable and draw attention to the Education programs and need for donations, as well as the performance history of this talented Seattle choreographer. I successfully earned work experience credit toward my Web Design Certificate, which I was awarded in December 2009. The site is still a work in progress.

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