I Won!!!!
Hi ho, MMMLOGerinos!
I Won!!!
That is, my website www.melindaruckerhaynes.com won FIRST PLACE in the Professionally Created category of the Sacramento Valley Rose Silver Rose Award contest for Web site excellence.
And how did this happen? It started with my dear pal Connie Coleman, a professional photographer whose massive talent can be seen on the homepage image on the site and those are her fabulous photos on the Reflections on Love downloadable wallpaper pages, too.
Then the fabulous Willa Cline put it all together in a beautiful, dreamy, easy-to-navigate feast for the eyes. I'm very grateful to Willa for her intuitive design and nearly instant updates and improvements. The latest addition to the site is a cool Flash animation on the Book and Workshops pages.
A dear friend of mine, Cassi Slay in Bullhead City, Arizona, designed and operated my first website back in 1999. This early-twenties something woman with four children and having completed as many books decided that she wanted to learn webdesign. She got her site up first and then put one up for me, wrote several more books while raising her darling children and helping her husband in his business,then she dropped out of sight. My website lay fallow until Sharron McClellan kindly spiffed it up at bit for me until I could find a designer whose work resonated with me, but no one seemed to be able to "get" me or what I wanted to achieve in my cyber home with Connie Coleman's beautiful photographs. Out designer hunting one day on the web, I happened upon Susan Wigg's site and loved the "feel" of it. That's where I found Willa Cline and zoomed up to her lovely site that even has a "tea leaves reading" page. Now we're talking!
Many, many thanks to the Sacramento Valley RWA chapter for their website contest and for awarding my site first place. More smoochie thanks to Willa and Connie, too!
Ciao, ciao, MMMMMMMMMMMMMMmelinda
I Won!!!
That is, my website www.melindaruckerhaynes.com won FIRST PLACE in the Professionally Created category of the Sacramento Valley Rose Silver Rose Award contest for Web site excellence.
And how did this happen? It started with my dear pal Connie Coleman, a professional photographer whose massive talent can be seen on the homepage image on the site and those are her fabulous photos on the Reflections on Love downloadable wallpaper pages, too.
Then the fabulous Willa Cline put it all together in a beautiful, dreamy, easy-to-navigate feast for the eyes. I'm very grateful to Willa for her intuitive design and nearly instant updates and improvements. The latest addition to the site is a cool Flash animation on the Book and Workshops pages.
A dear friend of mine, Cassi Slay in Bullhead City, Arizona, designed and operated my first website back in 1999. This early-twenties something woman with four children and having completed as many books decided that she wanted to learn webdesign. She got her site up first and then put one up for me, wrote several more books while raising her darling children and helping her husband in his business,then she dropped out of sight. My website lay fallow until Sharron McClellan kindly spiffed it up at bit for me until I could find a designer whose work resonated with me, but no one seemed to be able to "get" me or what I wanted to achieve in my cyber home with Connie Coleman's beautiful photographs. Out designer hunting one day on the web, I happened upon Susan Wigg's site and loved the "feel" of it. That's where I found Willa Cline and zoomed up to her lovely site that even has a "tea leaves reading" page. Now we're talking!
Many, many thanks to the Sacramento Valley RWA chapter for their website contest and for awarding my site first place. More smoochie thanks to Willa and Connie, too!
Ciao, ciao, MMMMMMMMMMMMMMmelinda
posted by MMMelinda at 8:19 AM
