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About Me

I am a freelance web designer / front-end developer living in Nashville, TN. I specialize in beautifully designed websites, web applications, and HTML / CSS. I recently got married and became Shelly Cooper (new URL coming soon!).

I'm inspired by minimalism, color, texture, and order. Sometimes I knit. Sometimes I bind books. I take pictures, listen to a lot of music, and enjoy a good cup of coffee. Daily I design web sites and am especially interested in web standards, clean code, and beautiful functional design.

I've been designing since 1995 when I first discovered graphic design at the University of Tennessee. Web Design is my passion. Figuring out new ways to display and present information or data by playing around with layout, structure, and design elements in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop and then later converting that design in to valid, semantic mark-up is what I love.

Read a recent interview of me by Luc Arnold over at Spicy Web Designers.

Skills

  • Adobe Illustrator Star SkillsStar SkillsStar Skills
  • Adobe PhotoshopStar SkillsStar SkillsStar Skills
  • TextMateStar SkillsStar SkillsStar Skills
  • XHTML / CSSStar SkillsStar SkillsStar Skills
  • jQueryStar SkillsStar SkillsStar Skills
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Experience

Shellydennison.com

Location: Nashville, TN
Date: 2009 - Present
Title: Freelance Designer and Front End Developer

Sitening

Location: Nashville, TN
Date: 2006 - 2009
Title: Art Director

JBA Network

Location: Asheville, NC
Date: 2005-2006
Title: Design Team Leader

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Shelly Dennison Dot Com was designed with Adobe CS3 on a MacBook Pro, and hand coded in TextMate. The beautiful Hoefler & Frere-Jones typefaces, Archer and Acropolis, appear via the sIFR jQuery plugin. The rest of the site is set in Helvetica.

This site has been featured on CSS Link, Spicy Web Designers, CSS Star, and StumbleUpon.