K9 Dezine
178 Lisa Way
884-0754
www.k9dezine.com
Name: Tess Gardner
Position: Owner
What she does: Designs Web sites for businesses and organizations.
Reason for the name: She started out designing a lot of sites for breeders in her spare time. When she started working on sites full-time, she kept the name because she thought it was catchy. Also, her business donates 15 percent of its profits to the New Hope Animal Alliance, which helps animals at the city shelter.
How she learned how to do graphic design: She's always drawn and painted and later started to design ads for a newspaper. To learn how to do graphic design, she taught herself.
What customers want: She said they want dynamic sites that make people read the content. "People get bored," she said. "They don't want to go through pages and pages and pages of text."