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Sherri, Ruby Moon Designs
Ruby Moon Designs is owned and operated by Sherri Kiarsis. Sherri is a web designer & developer with 25+ years experience in the industry. She is dedicated to her clients and enjoys collaborating with others. Sherri has built hundreds of websites and interviewed and observed people interacting with websites and technology throughout her career. She is passionate about taking a mediocre website and transforming it into a great online experience. Sherri is well versed in web standards, best practices, and human-computer interactions, and she believes that providing a friendly, easy-to-use, and user-friendly experience is not hard to do when you understand how people use the web.
When Sherri is not building websites, she enjoys reading comics, spending time with her family and dogs, and exploring the Colorado outdoors.
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