Meet Your Webeze Team

Kelley Rao
President
In 1999, Kelley took a risk and founded Webeze in the Silicon Valley when the success rate of dot coms was low and skepticism was high. She recognized that there was a void in mid-range Web development firms that made the Web accessible to all businesses. Webeze filled that void. Small business and corporate clients have been attracted to her entrepreneurial spirit ever since. Several clients have relied on Webeze for all of their Internet needs since their first contact with Kelley.

Webeze has remained profitable and financially solid at a time when many other firms have closed their doors. Her approach of combining Web development and Internet marketing with reliable maintenance and personal customer care has made Webeze the Web design firm of choice for clients located all over the United States.

Regarded as a leader in Web development and Internet marketing, Kelley has been a keynote speaker at several Bay Area seminars on topics such as Email Marketing and Search Engine Optimization. She has also served as a moderator for an online Website design instructional site.

Linda Rathgeber
Website Designer
Since turning freelance, Holistic Resource Magazine layout artist Linda
Rathgeber has turned her skills toward Web design, and, happily, never
looked back. Among her clients are the Australian Government's Overseas Aid agency, the DAR, the Virginia Association of Broadcasters, Macromedia, Inc., A-PLUS Technologies, Kessler and Associates, Practical Components, and Easter Associates.

Linda enjoys teaching as well as creating, and has co-authored a book
about designing with Macromedia Fireworks, called "Playing with Fire."

Tyler Jones
Website Designer/Developer
Tyler is a graphic designer with some programming background as well. He’s been designing websites since the early days of the web in the late 90’s. He has a passion for creating a website that actually helps the business or organization for whom it’s designed. Tyler holds a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from Indiana Wesleyan University.

Dustin M. Waibel
Website Designer/Developer
Dustin has over 8 years experience in building HTML-based Web sites, including optimizing and writing cross-browser and cross-platform code.
He has demonstrated expertise in HTML writing, CSS handling, SSI execution, Dreamweaver MX usage, and web site implementation issues, including proper UI. In addition, he has over 3 years experience in JavaScript, Perl, UNIX, and Photoshop 7 and some experience with Flash and ActionScripting.

Dan Furman
Writer
One of Dan’s mantras is “Nobody HAS to read your writing. Instead, they must WANT to.” Dan specializes in clear, succinct website writing that addresses a visitor’s needs, and compels them to read further and take action. His words are friendly, and his style is inviting. Dan has worked for himself for the past five years, and has helped hundreds of clients increase their website readership and customer responses.

Dan has 20 years of overall writing experience, including writing for websites, direct mail, sales pieces, and just about anything else related to the sales process. He is also an expert on website conversion and web marketing. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, studying history, and all things scary.

Brenda Galloway
Content Developer/Editor
Web site copywriting requires a different approach and set of rules. And the rules are always changing! Keyword rich, search engine optimized site copy will bring more customers to your Web site, but personalized, benefits-oriented content compels them to stick around and buy. Brenda Galloway of Write Essentials uses the latest proven Internet copywriting techniques. She knows what works, and more importantly, what doesn't. By combining psychology and proven marketing copywriting strategies, she can dramatically help sales and reach business goals.

Lisa Bianchi
Graphic Designer
Lisa Bianchi has 19 years of graphic design experience. She began her career as a designer with Jamison & Associates (now Jamison McKay Advertising and Marketing) in San Francisco. After moving to Silicon Valley, Ms. Bianchi joined Innovative Marketing Inc. where she designed and produced ads, brochures and promotional literature. She founded Lisa Bianchi Design in 1992 and now provides Apple, Sun Microsystems, Borland, CSAA, Orchard Commercial Real Estate and others with top-level design services for corporate identity packages, exhibits, ads and original illustration. Ms. Bianchi earned her B.A. in Fine Arts from San Jose State University.

Dylan Downhill
Search Engine Optimization/Marketing Consultant
Elixir System’s Dylan Downhill is a renowned expert on the Internet and search engine optimization. He has been developing web sites on the Internet since 1997 and immediately began to optimize these sites to help their rankings in the search engines. Since that time he has built an in-depth knowledge of the SEO industry.

Dylan is a skilled web site developer and programmer. He has created a variety of sites in ASP, PHP, Perl, Coldfusion, Visual Basic, VB, with SQL Server 2000 and MySQL. His extensive experience with e-commerce ranges from small sites, to those with catalogs of over 4,000 items.