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WriteNowDesign is professional, detailed, creative, fast, problem-solving... And did I mention patient? He still offers guidance months after our site launched.

Lisa Nelson, Marketing Manager, histame.com

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History

Pat Fortino founded WriteNowDesign in the spring of 2005 in order to provide website design services to individuals, non-profit organizations, and small and medium businesses. continued

Philosophy

Strunk and White say, "A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts."

At Write Now Design, we believe that communication, whether it's an E-mail, a user guide, or a website, should be simple. Elegantly simple. It should contain no blinking lights, no flashing text, no gratuitous graphics, unless it serves to convey your message. continued

Experience

Pat has worked for ten years as a technical writer and website designer in the telecommunications and software industry for corporations such as Sun Microsystems, U S West,
and Qwest. continued

Personal

I have always loved figuring out how things work. For example, when I was 13, I took apart my parent's lawnmower just to see if I could put it back together. I had several panic attacks, but I managed to put the mower back together. And it worked!

Technical writing and web design require the same kind of skill, thinking, and tenacity: I have to keep figuring out how things work. It's something I naturally love to do. continued