Emily Carlin

I'm a web designer and the founder of Swank Web Design and Hosting. We offer custom web, graphic and print design, for bloggers, authors and small businesses. We also offer additional services like hosting, domain registration and search engine optimization.

I've always been "artsy", and my love of drawing and painting in High School took me to Savannah College of Art and Design school where I discovered that being a painter was not a feasible career choice if I wanted to pay my rent, so I chose to pursue the "design" part of my school and became familiar with programs like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.Designing websites started as a hobby when I wanted to make a layout for my blog, so I taught myself (x)HTML and CSS. Flash forward 10 years and I've designed over 400 websites and have extensive knowledge of all the major content management systems, though I'm partial to WordPress. I'm also a perfectionist who still hand codes everything because code produced from WYSIWYG and HTML editors has been known to make me nauseous. I prefer clean, light and semantic markup. This means all my clients get fast loading, search engine optimized websites that are beautiful and elegant on the outside as well as under the hood.

When I'm not working, I like to cook/bake and take lots of photos. My DVR has turned me into quite the obsessive TV watcher, but my brain isn't totally rotted out, I love to get out and enjoy nature when I can.