We believe that your website should be a reflection of you, not the website designer. Your website should be available to all who wish to visit it. Therefore, our website designs are based on the following principles:

• The website should be fast-loading, clean and easy to navigate;
• Images should be optimized both visually and for minimum size;
• The website should not appear radically different to viewers having different browers, including the disabled, and those with older browsers and on slow lines;
• The meta information supplied should efficiently direct search engines to the site.
• Text should rarely be displayed as an image;
• There should be no confusing background images;

The primary website designer at Beaded Lizard is Karen M. Strom. Karen has been a webmaster since October 1993, when she began the website for the Astronomy Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. As a part of that project, she was responsible for the widely used set of images for the Greek alphabet and mathematical symbols and also developed courseware for use over the web. Between 1994 and 1998 she helped several non-profit organizations, primarily Native American, set up their first websites; many of these organizations are now maintaining their own websites.

Currently a list of sites constructed and maintained by Karen Strom includes:

• Jeanette Katoney, Navajo Artist, Hotevilla, AZ
• Stephen E. Strom, Fine Art Photographer
• Earth Forms, a fine art photography book
• Karen M. Strom, Fine Art Photographs
• Just My Opinion, my personal blog
• Sticks and Stones, an Alphabet Book for the 21^st Century
• Laura Tohe, Navajo poet
• Index of Native American Resources
• A Line in the Sand, on cultural property issues
• Observatories of the Southwest: A Guide for Curious Skywatchers, a new book
• Casas Arroyo Homeowners Association
• Arizona Borderlands Democrats
• Penfield Gallery of Indian Arts , Albuquerque, NM
• Metamorphosis Art Gallery, Patagonia, AZ
• Sunbeam Indian Arts, the pottery of Gonzales family of San Ildefonso Pueblo
• The Honyouti Family - Hopi Katsina Carvers, Hotevilla & Bacavi, AZ
• John Gonzales Pottery, San Ildefonso Pueblo
• Jane H. Bock, botanist and forensic botany

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