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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 where she continues to follow classes to keep up with the ever-changing WWW.

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 insurance adjusting business, Adjustment Services, Inc., and building links from other appropriate sites that referenced it.  Froghaven News Online first resided on six different websites and appeared to be one through links. Now it has a home of it's own.

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.  Karin recently developed a site for Marquis Management, the property managers of Courtyards, who also manage a number of other properties in the metro area.

A natural alliance for Karin is Scottsdale Farms Garden Center in Alpharetta, GA. The needs of this destination nursery in Alpharetta 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.

Website of friend and garden designer Sandra at Dogwood Knoll is just starting to develop.  Her site will introduce many gardeners in North Georgia to her depth of expertise on designing with native plants.

We  just introduced the site  http://www.haganmasonry.com  for friend and stone mason Harry Hagan, who has done so much work in our gardens and throughout metro Atlanta. 

Artists Julie and David Boone each needed websites for their own interwoven enterprises.  Julie operates Wildcat on a Wing  http://www.wildcatonawing.com which is a fine craft gallery in North Georgia offering a diversity of  hand made American pieces.  David makes cedar and copper birdhouses, feeders, and wind directionals. They are featured on http://www.wildcatworks.com .

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. They often do not have the expertise to focus on the background coding of the site that enhances the ability of search engines to index their pages.

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.

Arranged for you... is the website Karin developed for her e-commerce business.

Introduced in May of 2005, the site offers the tools and toys that flower arrangers seek and often times cannot find.  With an inventory of 500-600 items, the customers are a varied and interesting mix of garden club members, competitive designers, florists, brides and hobbyists.