Venado Graphics has a small but creative and experienced staff to help you with all aspects of web page design. Our chief designer has a degree in Art and worked for several years in the advertising industry, doing ad layouts, designing logos and original client artwork, and writing copy.

After several years, she left to pursue post-grad degrees and practiced law for more than a decade as a partner in a large urban law firm. She worked with clients in mergers and acquisitions, highly technical environmental cases, and hotly contested cost-recovery litigation. But when the new web technologies emerged, she left the practice to pursue a new business in web design, combining the best of art, design, technology and e-business.

Venado Graphics staff has been trained in the latest technologies and software to make web-page creation a satisfying experience. Our formal training includes:

• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Photoshop
• Macromedia Dreamweaver
• Macromedia Flash
• Certified Internet Webmaster program
• Adobe Pagemaker
• HTML and DHTML coding
• Certified Brainbench HTML Programmer

We subscribe to the philosophy that just because you can do it, doesn't mean you should. Yeah, we can do Flash movies and GIF animations and fancy rollovers. But in our view, they should serve a purpose. Graphics and animations should add to the value of your site; they should give your audience some useful information. Photos of your products are great - people love to see what they can buy. But we won't sell you starbursts and flashy JavaScripts that don't enhance the content of your site and just take up bandwidth. Nothing discourages a potential customer than exceedingly long download times. We'll show you how to pare your site, keeping your costs down and enhancing your audience's experience.

We lean toward the classic, plain, straightforward design style. Your customers need to understand the product or services that you offer; they don't want to be confused. Leave that to your competition. Your web page must be clear and readily understood by your potential customers. You won't get "mystery-button" navigation, and your site won't end up on the "WebPagesThatSuck" site. We promise.