About Us
About Joe
Joe Chellman, Principal, has been a web designer since 1996 and a drummer since 1989. He received his master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on usability design, in 1999. When he's not whacking hollow objects with sticks or building web sites, Joe can be found walking the dog, baking cakes, and grooming his Wookiees.
Joe favors clean, simple design, both visually and functionally. He is an avid supporter of web standards and accessibility guidelines and laws, and he builds sites to comply with both.
Joe’s technical repertoire includes HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, XML, Lasso, JavaScript, Shockwave, and Flash. We do love those acronyms.
About Lisa
Lisa Chellman, Associate Designer, has been doing professional web work since 2001, having begun building personal sites in 1998. Although primarily a children's librarian and writer, Lisa steps in on projects that require unique artistic solutions.
About Carly
Our newest team member and official ShooFlyDesign Muse, Carly S Chellman acts as office receptionist, bomb-sniffer, tail-wagger, and all-around hellraiser.
Colophon
ShooFlyDesign is a Mac shop. We find Macs to be the right tools for us to get our work done quickly and well. We also have a Windows PC for testing our websites and supporting our clients who use Windows.
Some of the software we use to produce this and other websites include:
- BBEdit, a great text editor from Bare Bones Software.
- PageSpinner, the web editor from Optima System.
- Photoshop Elements, from Adobe.
- Create, a do-everything graphics application by Stone Design.
- GraphicConverter, the best software of its class for any platform.
- Movable Type, which runs our weblogs.
- Markdown, a text-to-HTML converter that we run inside Movable Type, but can be used in BBEdit as well.
- PHP, a programming language with which we have an unhealthy relationship.
- Smarty, the template engine that is developed with PHP. It allows us to keep all the nasty code in one place, and all the nasty words in another.
- MySQL, the database management system that pretty much everyone uses.
This website is graciously hosted by Hostbaby, whom we can't recommend enough, try as we might.