Notes From the Desk

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Employer’s Choice Plus (ECP) of Westchester, OH launched their new web site using a design created by Cow Dog Design LLC. The new design was developed for ECP’s marketing company Justice & Young.

ECP is a strategic business partner that allows you to focus on what’s most important to you and your business. ECP consultants can help you achieve substantial cost savings while improving benefits and reducing employer risk.

Recently published Amy Heyd chose Cow Dog Design to design and develop her new website. The website promotes Amy’s new book Saints at the Dinner Table. Below you will find a description of Amy’s latest work and you can visit her site at www.amyheyd.com.

Do you want to reconnect with family and friends and stimulate mealtime talk?  Consider hosting dinners for your nearest and dearest and one of twelve saints who inspired award-winning baker and recipe innovator Amy Heyd.  In Saints at the Dinner Table, Heyd cooks up a delicious menu of meals that all your loved ones will relish.  She dedicates each chapter to a saint who in some way inspired her to create original recipes for a complete meal–from salad to main course to dessert.  Heyd combines a brief introduction to each saint, a reflection, an inspired menu, a dinner prayer and questions for meaningful dinner discussion.  You won’t want to wait to serve Saints at the Dinner Table at family dinner nights, book club discussions, parties with a twist and as a special gift for newleyweds, anniversaries, birthdays and more.

Creative or technical? Most Web specialists fall into one category or the other. With a unique ability to marry his creativity with his technical development skills, Darrell brings to life beautiful and functional Web sites that are both search engine and user-friendly.

Detail-oriented and not afraid to try something new, Darrell brings a fresh perspective to his work and his clients benefit from his insight and natural talent. His broad base of knowledge, coding expertise and creativity are reflected in his approach to Web site design and development.

Darrell’s interest in art began in childhood and followed him into high school, where he took classes at the Cincinnati Art Academy, and worked in several different mediums such as figure drawing, photography, print making and photo manipulation. Moving into college and eventually graduate school, Darrell became more focused on electronic art, graphic design, computer animation, photography. His extensive art background is still evident in the outstanding sites he builds for his clients today.

Darrell Williams holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Bowling Green State University and went on to earn his master’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of Cincinnati’s DAAP program. He is proficient in PHP and XHTML coding and, prior to forming Cow Dog Design, worked at Atomic Computers and Design, Justice & Young, Parody Productions and Urban Wilderness Design, where he designed and developed Web sites for clients ranging from ski resorts to pottery shops.

In his free time, Darrell enjoys cycling and participating in charity cycling rides. He also serves as the Moeller High School Inline Hockey Head Coach.