Based just outside Glasgow, Scotland, Idea15 Web Design is Heather Burns. She is a professional web site designer with over 13 years of experience in site creation and maintenance. She has trained professionally in web standards, search engine optimisation, and web site accessibility.
Before starting her own business, she worked as a marketing and communications manager in a now thankfully defunct public sector quango. In that role, she was responsible for internal communications, external marketing, public relations, printed materials, branding, and wilfully irritating the quangocrats. In her native US, Heather served as the executive assistant to a CEO of a nonprofit educational organisation. In that role, she thrived working at the highest levels of Washington DC’s pressure cooker, mastering the fine art of shouting in three languages while knowing what was going on in 18 countries at any given time (very CJ Cregg).
After running off to Scotland with a good looking shinty player and wasting a few years trying to find an employer who didn’t sneer at her American work ethic, she started her own business in 2007. Idea15 Web Design has gone from strength to strength and has expanded from general web design to search engine optimisation and web consultancy. She has built up a strong and effective network of subcontractors, including database specialists, graphic designers, photographers, and other assorted geeks.
Accreditations and Affiliations
Heather Burns holds the CIW Professional accreditation in web site design methodology and technology (2007) and the Web CEO Internet Marketing Professional certification (2009).
Before web design existed as a career, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in International Politics/Russian and Eastern European Studies from George Washington University.
We are professionally and morally opposed to spec work, and do not work with or for anyone who engages in it. We support the objectives of the No-Spec campaign.
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