We believe that your website should be a reflection of you, not the website designer. Your website should be available to all who wish to visit it. Therefore, our website designs are based on the following principles:

• The website should be fast-loading, clean and easy to navigate;
• Images should be optimized both visually and for minimum size;
• The website should not appear radically different to viewers having different browers, including the disabled, and those with older browsers and on slow lines;
• The meta information supplied should efficiently direct search engines to the site.
• Text should rarely be displayed as an image;
• There should be no confusing background images;

The primary website designer at Beaded Lizard is Karen M. Strom. Karen has been a webmaster since October 1993, when she began the website for the Astronomy Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. As a part of that project, she was responsible for the widely used set of images for the Greek alphabet and mathematical symbols and also developed courseware for use over the web. Between 1994 and 1998 she helped several non-profit organizations, primarily Native American, set up their first websites; many of these organizations are now maintaining their own websites.

Karen has worked for many years in the Unix environment, and with Apple equipment for the last 10 years. This experience has transferred easily into the PC environment in recent times, as she has been called upon to help clients with computing problems. She is also able to help you acquire your own domain name and server space.

Currently a list of sites constructed and maintained by Karen Strom includes:

• Sticks and Stones, an Alphabet Book for the 21^st Century
• Guide to Northeast Santa Cruz County
• Sonoita Crossroads Community Forum
• Karen M. Strom, Fine Art Photographs
• Stephen E. Strom, Fine Art Landscape Photographer
• Penfield Gallery of Indian Arts in Albuquerque
• Metamorphosis Art Gallery, Patagonia, AZ
• Jeanette Katoney, Navajo Artist, Hotevilla, AZ
• Sunbeam Indian Arts, the pottery of Gonzales family of San Ildefonso Pueblo
• The Honyouti Family - Hopi Katsina Carvers, Hotevilla & Bacavi, AZ
• Storytellers: Native American Authors Online
• Carolyn Dunn, Seminole poet and musician
• Index of Native American Resources Online
• A Line in the Sand, on cultural property issues
• Arizona Borderlands Democrats         The ABD Online shop
• Casas Arroyo Homeowners Association
• Gerald Clarke, Cahuila artist
• John Gonzales Pottery, San Ildefonso Pueblo
• Barbara Elmore Designs, needlepoint
• Jane H. Bock, botanist and forensic botany

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