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Elizabeth Rowston

Elizabeth has over 30 years experience in graphic art, advertising, production and marketing. She displayed her natural creative talent at an early age and as a teenager, she had already become a respected graphic artist. She was accepted at the prestigious LA Art Center at 17. Her college education in Art and English began her successful career as an artist.

Elizabeth owned a full service advertising agency in Michigan for over 20 years. Some of the following companies retained accounts with her agency for many years, using her services in designing artwork for logos, corporate identities, brochures, flyers, and to create advertising promotions and marketing campaigns. She also worked with radio and television to produce successful ads and handled public relations for many of her clients, developing media events, writing press releases and speeches for corporate presentations. Some of her artwork has appeared in both the Us and Europe.

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Chrysler Corporation (Chrysler Times Magazine)
Hot Melt Technology
Merhow Horse Trailers
Glasurit Europe and America
Winchester Mall
House of Denmark
Paul Haig Custom & International Jewelers
Auto-Fab Inc. (Chevrolet)
Connolly's Jewelers
International Diamond Importers
Auto-Fab (Chevrolet)
Commodity Management Group

General Motors
Carboloy Industries
Commodity Management Group
Oakland Mall
United States Equestrian Team
Oakland Hills Country Club
Great Oaks Country Club
Ethan Allen Furniture
Mondello International Interiors
John Darakjian Jewelers
Blue Ridge Mall (North Carolina)
Lowe's (North Carolina)

In 1992 Elizabeth began working with both Mac and PC computers and added designing graphic art for websites to her list of credentials. She worked for a Web Marketing Group for 2 years and then assumed the job of handling one large website for an Art and Framing Company. She continues to update her knowledge of computer programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and 3D Studio Max.

Pat Toner

Pat has been involved with online communication since her first experiences in early 1990. She created and maintained a bulletin board service (a precursor of the Internet) from 1993 to 1996. The popularity of the Internet developed with unbelievable speed and she became interested in designing web pages and websites, realizing the future of advertising would be electronic. In her never-ending quest for knowledge, she taught herself everything she could learn about computer programs and the Internet at a time when there was no structured education in the field, she began Toner Design in 1997, officially registering the business in 1998.

Pat's degree in Fine Art coupled with a focus in math has helped in her success. Additional experience working as Webmaster for an Internet Service Provider further helped increase her knowledge of all aspects involving the intricacies of the Internet.

Pat has been responsible for the production of a very large number of commercial, non-profit and personal websites. She has provided the site architecture, custom graphic design, and interactive page development, including e-commerce solutions. Pat is highly knowledgeable in HTML (hand-coding as well as using Dreamweaver professional software, Javascript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Perl and ASP.NET programming languages, creating customized scripts as required for various clients. She has participated in successful site development teams for many more websites both on-site and through remote, virtual organizations.

She also provides site registration and maintenance services to a large number of clients on an ongoing basis. In addition, Pat has worked to become knowledgeable and successful in site optimization for search engines, enabling customer sites to show up well in search engines and working with clients to improve their current search engine standings.

Pat is not limited to web design, however. She also produces desktop publishing/prepress work, creating logos, brochures, and other print media items for client businesses. She has created custom Microsoft Access database programs, and her writing skills have been put to use on a number of occasions as she has written company newsletters and brochures. Pat continues to develop her Internet talent and knowledge through extended study and education in new programs and Internet technology.