About

Zoe Gillenwater

About Zoe Mickley Gillenwater

I am an experienced web designer and technical author, active in the web standards community, who specializes in visual design, CSS, and accessibility. I’m the author of the New Riders title Flexible Web Design: Creating Liquid and Elastic Layouts with CSS and the video training title Web Accessibility Principles for lynda.com, and I have written nearly 100 articles and tutorials as a partner at the web development training site Community MX on a variety of web design topics. I am currently a member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Adobe Task Force and enjoy helping others learn web standards through my work as a moderator of the popular css-discuss mailing list, editor for Adobe’s CSS Advisor web site documenting browser bugs and fixes, technical book editor, conference speaker, and consultant.

I currently work as a freelance web and print designer and consultant, specializing in web design and front-end development, logo design, and graphic design of marketing materials. In the past, I worked as the design services manager at a university research center and the webmaster of a design agency, so I have experience in freelance, in-house, and agency design workflows.

You can learn more about my work experience and skills on my LinkedIn profile.

I live in Carrboro, North Carolina, right next door to Chapel Hill and the great UNC Tar Heels. I’ve got a fantastic husband and an adorable and energetic baby girl.

Working with Zoe

I’m always looking for new projects and people to work with. Clients located near me in the Triangle area of North Carolina are great, but proximity is certainly not necessary; past and present clients range from Finland to California.

I am available for both direct work with clients as well as sub-contracting work. So if you’re a programmer in need of a designer to partner with, for instance, please drop me a line!

Please use the short form in the column to the right to contact me with some ideas of how I might be able to help you. I’ll get back to you quickly so we can talk in more detail about your needs. I’m available for:

  • Web consultation, audits and strategy
  • Web visual and interface design
  • Web accessibility improvements and consultation
  • Web front-end construction (CSS and HTML/XHTML)
  • CSS troubleshooting, cleanup and consultation
  • Branding design (logo, letterhead, etc.)
  • Print design (brochures, reports, etc.)
  • Speaking engagements
  • Writing assignments
  • Interviews

About this Site

This site is powered by WordPress, not just for the blog postings, but for all of the pages. I built the WordPress theme myself from scratch, and it’s of course always a work in progress!

I mostly hand code, but I use Adobe Dreamweaver as a tool for all of my web development work, including this site.