About Vickie, the Creative Weed
Vickie Weed is a Business Professional, turned Web Designer located in Central Pennsylvania. As a child, she enjoyed drawing, painting and writing stories. Her dream job was an artist.
Vickie attended Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania. She studied business administration, marketing and French. She graduated with a Bachelors of Science degree in a dual major of Business Administration and French.
Vickie applied her business and marketing knowledge to the insurance industry. Vickie earned the prestigious professional designation of Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) early in her insurance career. While holding various customer-facing positions, she honed her skills in customer relationships, needs analysis and creative solutions.
During a corporate reorganization/relocation, Vickie decided to pursue a more creative career path and returned to college. She enrolled in an introductory Web Design class. She fell in love with hand-coding. Her love affair with the field continued to grow with each successive class. In Vickie’s words, "Web design is the ultimate melding of creativity, technology and business." She likes clean, aesthetically pleasing sites that provide great user interfaces.
Vickie earned an Associate in Arts degree in Web Development and Design from Harrisburg Area Community College in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She was inducted into the Phi Theta Kappa National Honor Society while being a student and full-time insurance professional.
When Vickie isn’t creating great graphics or designs, she enjoys family activities, cooking and making jewelry.
Some of Vickie's favorite website and design resources include:
Skills & Resume
Vickie's skills include Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML/CSS, HTML5/CSS3 and more.
For greater details about Vickie's experience, skills and education, please read Vickie’s resume online.
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The Logo
The logo is an illustration of a Bird of Paradise which reside in the rainforests of New Guinea and surrounding islands. The very colorful males have long tail feathers sometimes three times the length of their bodies.
Barn art and Pennsylvania Dutch Hex signs often depict a stylized version of the Bird of Paradise with its streaming tail feathers. Whether true or not, the Bird of Paradise symbolizes the beauty, mysteries and wonders of life.