[Surelutions offers website design and more in Chelsea, Michigan]

Surelutions offers website design and web services, graphic design, domain and web hosting.
Located in Chelsea, Michigan and serving clients locally and nationwide.

Background and Experience

Leslie Surel is the owner of Surelutions. Leslie's design experience is extensive and varied. She began learning graphic design techniques in 1985 on an old MacIntosh when page layout using a computer was a very new field. In 1988, she began working part-time in the graphics department of a Fortune 500 corporation while pursuing her degree at Eastern Michigan University. A few years later, she was hired full time by an international consulting firm in Ann Arbor, where she worked for 8 years as lead graphic designer and department manager.

DID YOU KNOW?

It takes skill and forethought to create a functional website that works without any graphics or styling.

Why do you care about the source code of your website? Because search engines such as Google don't see the pretty graphics and layout. They can only process the text.

In 2001, Leslie and her family moved to Chelsea, Michigan. With Leslie's design and website experience and her husband's software development and custom programming expertise, they founded Surelutions in 2003.

In addition to owning, operating and designing at Surelutions, Leslie also volunteers her time and expertise for many community events, groups and organizations in and around her local community.

Software Expertise

WEBSITE DESIGN

Most of Surelutions new websites are built on the Wordpress platform. Originally launched as a blogging tool, Wordpress has grown into a robust development platform which is suited to building great websites, whether they include a blog or not. We are fans of Wordpress because of the flexibility in design and features, and also because it makes it extremely easy for clients to have as much or as little involvement as they wish in the content updates and editing of their website.

Surelutions is also very experienced in building "regular" websites which are built in Dreamweaver using html and css. Whether you need a mini-facelift on your existing site, or a brand new, from the ground up new site, we can help.

We are skilled with the look, feel, and functionality of web sites, and the underlying technologies involved. We make it a point to keep up with both current design and accessibility standards.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Both vector and bitmap software are necessary in a graphics and web design environment. Our bitmap and photo editing software of choice includes both Photoshop and Fireworks. The vector programs we use include Xara, which is a great and inexpensive product, and the industry standard Adobe Illustrator. For page layout and marketing documents, we use InDesign.

For clients who need us to update files in software they already own, we can also help you with your Word, Powerpoint or Publisher files.