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I always say my web design career started in a high school class taught by Sandy Mockler. It was an HTML class, which sounds boring unless you were there, because something about that class clicked for me. It was creative. It felt like painting with code. I wasn’t good at sitting still or following strict rules, but this was the kind of structured chaos I could thrive in. The first real website I ever built was for a soap company. A family friend knew I was artsy and into pho

Baby Kelley Trying Her Best Before the cameras, the competitions, and the chaos of Big Brother, I was just a girl from South Dakota, raised on a sheep farm with mud on my boots, sunburn on my nose, and a heart full of curiosity. I grew up completely free-range. My childhood was spent camping, fishing, hiking, climbing trees, and playing hide-and-seek in the cornfields. There wasn’t a screen in sight just open skies, a lot of imagination, and enough scraped knees to prove it.

(and why industrial websites are harder than they look) I just launched a new site for Dakota Metal Solutions. And I’m really proud of this one. Not because it’s flashy. Not because it’s the “prettiest” site I’ve ever designed. Actually… kind of the opposite. Because designing for industrial and manufacturing clients is a completely different game. The constant battle: useful vs. pretty Every time I start a project like this, I have to check myself. My instinct as a designer