Emma McCreary
Web Designer, Social Entrepreneur, Joy Ninja

Red Acorn Design, Acorn Host

• http://www.emmamccreary.com

Summary: I build simple, beautiful, and user-friendly websites for small unique businesses. I do the design as well as the programming, integrating it together for a high-functioning and elegant website that you can edit yourself without knowing HTML (more at Red Acorn Design). Second, I run a green-powered, progressive, and all-around-cool web hosting company called Acorn Host. Lastly, I make art, write, and think a heck of a lot about how to rewrite culture to support everyone to be vibrantly alive and happy.

Web Design: I create elegant websites for unique companies and products through Red Acorn...[more]

Summary: I build simple, beautiful, and user-friendly websites for small unique businesses. I do the design as well as the programming, integrating it together for a high-functioning and elegant website that you can edit yourself without knowing HTML (more at Red Acorn Design). Second, I run a green-powered, progressive, and all-around-cool web hosting company called Acorn Host. Lastly, I make art, write, and think a heck of a lot about how to rewrite culture to support everyone to be vibrantly alive and happy.

Web Design: I create elegant websites for unique companies and products through Red Acorn Design. My clients want a site that is beautiful, highly functional, search engine friendly, and customized programatically to their liking. I do both design and programming, integrating and maximizing the benefits of the web medium. I can help you set up an online shop and take payments (e-commerce), integrate a blog, make your site match your existing print materials, create a custom admin system to administer your site's content giving you control over your copy without learning any HTML, and last but not least, make it look simple, beautiful, and very easy to use. How can I do all of that? I keep things as simple as possible (but no simpler), and I work with small clients with small projects that want an integrated package from a single provider rather than paying a firm or a team to do all of these things. I make beautiful sites that do their job and make yours easier. I love working with independent business owners, work-at-home folks, creative, friendly, happy people who do what they love and love what they do.

Web Hosting: I run a green-powered, women-owned (that's me), progressive web hosting company called Acorn Host. We have excellent uptime, affordable packages, great customer service, and lots of pre-installed scripts like Wordpress and Zen Cart for the do-it-yourself folks.

Things I Think About: Right now I'm interested in authentic connection and transparency in business and the intersection and bluring of personal and 'professional' identities online and how that affects how we interact, market, and live.

I also consistently think about art and creativity (especially as it relates to spirituality), conscious business, passive income, NVC (non-violent communication), Taoism, intrinsic motivation, emotional healing, personal growth, and other woo-woo stuff.

My geeky side likes to play with geek culture, Web 2.0, futurism (ie the Singularity), and any idea that seems interesting at the time.

Last but not least, I like to ask myself 'How much happiness can I stand?' and do whatever leads me there.

Art: I have some of my artwork up on Flickr. I do art primarily for my own amusement and enlightenment (seeing inside my subconscious and whatnot), and I think art should be something everyone does, like cooking or taking a shower. It feeds your soul and cleanses your mind, and everyone can do it.

Writing: I have a few blogs that I write on from time to time:

• Tao of Prosperity is about conscious business, passive income, and joyful work.
• Joy Ninja is about radical happiness for everyone.
• cheekyboots is my personal blog, where I write pretty frankly about my life and things I struggle with or am learning about how to live a happy, vibrant life.

Thanks for visiting! Write me a note, visit my blogs, ask me a question if you'd like to connect! [less]

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  From Nedra Rezinas

  Given on Thu Apr 10, 2008.

  Emma has really helped my business in more ways than one. She's a leader for all small businesses and encourages...[more]

  Emma has really helped my business in more ways than one. She's a leader for all small businesses and encourages you to push yourself through the messages on her blogs and through her talented work.   [less]