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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, and shortly thereafter was promoted to managing their graphics department.
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.
Eek! I'm nekkid!
See how this page would look without its fancy clothes on. Not pretty, but definitely legible!
In 2001, Leslie and her family moved to Chelsea, Michigan. With Leslie's design and website experience and her husband's software programming expertise, they founded Surelutions in 2003. [Note: Our business was founded in 2003 as Surelutions Software. As of January 2007, we now officially operate as Surelutions.]
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. Most notably, Leslie is the founder of the Things To Do In Chelsea website, which was created in 2005 and has has quickly become the go-to place on the Internet for all things to do with Chelsea, Michigan.
Software Expertise
WEBSITES
Surelutions' web sites start in xHTML and CSS and are designed using Dreamweaver and its supporting suite of software. We are skilled with the look, feel, and functionality of web sites, and with also the underlying technologies involved. We make it a point to keep up with both current design and accessibility standards.
GRAPHICS
Both vector and bitmap software are necessary in a graphic design environment. Our bitmap and photo editing software of choice includes Adobe Photoshop, and Macromedia Fireworks. The vector program we use most often is Xara Extreme, which is a great and inexpensive product that compatible with Adobe Illustrator, Freehand and CorelDraw. (We also have Illustrator in our toolbox for projects that require it.)