Valerie has been developing web sites, primarily in WordPress, since 2007. She specializes in working for small local businesses with focus on organic rankings. She started her graphic design business in Silicon Valley in 1986 with the advent ‘desktop publishing’ and has grown with technology to offer a wide range of services since her move to Chesapeake, Virginia in 1998. She loves the opportunity to use both halves of her brain when working on web projects: making it pretty and making it functional. Valerie is proud to be a a WordPress evangelist and loves all things WordPress.