About Websites with Aloha

Growing up I never fit in with the “normal” kids – I had creative ideas, marched to the beat of my own drum, and thought I was just “weird.” I realize now that I was unique and meant to pursue a totally different path, the path of an entrepreneur. I love that through my work I have the opportunity to help other small business owners express their uniqueness to the world.

I love working with entrepreneurs because they have passion about what they do, because that passion is contagious, because they think outside the box, and because as a small business owner myself, I understand them. I also truly believe that entrepreneurs are the lifeblood of our communities and without them we would lose a lot of variety and uniqueness in this world.”

I’ve always had an insatiable appetite for learning. Luckily, the web design world is constantly changing and expanding, so there is always something new and interesting happening!

Getting to work with business owners from a wide variety of fields, backgrounds, and geographic locations has been a huge source of inspiration. I love getting to know our clients and helping them explore the many ways in which their websites can grow and expand along-side their businesses.”

In high school, a classmate of mine in yearbook club asked me to digitally replace the earrings in our Spanish teacher’s yearbook photo with a tiny picture of his face – the goal of course being that you wouldn’t be able to actually spot him there unless you knew he was there in the first place. In the end, the image never actually made it onto the school yearbook. But it did give the very perceptive computer teacher that discovered our antic a good laugh, and we quickly fell in with him on creative projects – redesigning web pages and other graphic design work for the school.

Back then, the internet still felt like it’s own entity – and now it’s become almost synonymous with modern day life. I have no idea how it’ll change in the next few years, but am very excited to be a part of it.”

I’ve always had a love for design and after college I started a fashion business, which was my first opportunity to leverage my passion to create beautiful things. Through the creation of two businesses, I fell in love with graphic design and delivering those beautiful things on time and on budget through a structured approach.

My desire to learn, grow, and travel keeps me current with design best practices while being mindful that each client has a unique set of needs. I look forward to walking my clients through a straightforward and easy-to-follow workflow which allows us to bring the vision to life sooner.”

Throughout the years, I’ve enjoyed working “behind the scenes” initially as a Court Reporter on the Mainland and since 1987, as an Executive Assistant here in Hawaii. Most recently, I’ve been a Virtual Assistant, enabling me to work simultaneously with several clients.

It’s recently been my good fortune to join Websites with Aloha as part of their team. Each day brings excitement and new challenges as I am involved not only in the administrative side of WWA but am also learning the inner-workings of building websites. I enjoy working with and meeting new people and look forward to helping clients develop their dream website… with aloha.”