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I'm Lynda, and I design and maintain the web sites and marketing documents for a financial services company in Woodland Hills, CA.

My strength is taking design elements created by others and putting them together in web sites and desktop publishing documents that get the job done! I'm pretty obsessive about not infringing on copyrights, so graphic mining on the web can be time-consuming as a result, but very satisfying in the end.

Can I create designs from scratch? Yes, I can, and sometimes they're even good enough to use! LOL I'm getting much better at it, and my company just purchased Adobe CS3 Web Premium and I'm taking tutorials in Illustrator & Photoshop, but low-cost or free templates and other free graphic elements are still the way to go for me.

I'm also the webmaster for a wonderful non-profit organization called Create Now!. Their mission is to change the lives of high-risk and at-risk youth through creative arts mentoring, resources and opportunities. It's amazing what their doing, and I'm proud to be able to bring them to the attention of everyone I'm in contact with. (Note to SysAdmins: I understand this may be considered spam, and will understand if you need to remove it from my post.)

I'm also Katie's grandma - my favorite role these days!

Glad to have found this forum today, and hope that I'll become a regular contributor as well as an avid reader here.