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"Shaila Abdullah is a gift. When an editor in New York referred me to Shaila, I looked at Shaila's two personal sites and another site that she'd designed, and I knew that, after years of searching, I'd finally found the right person to give www.9elephants.com the exact creative brush of excellence needed. Shaila listened to my vision, asked questions, and designed a magical place that captures the essence of me and my work. While working with me, Shaila provided suggestions that enhanced my original vision, and she always pointed me in the right direction when I needed to handle a technical aspect, like setting up PayPal. Shaila is truly a gifted web designer and a lovely person with whom to work. I cannot offer enough praise for Shaila and her work. I am just deeply grateful that the Universe brought us together."
--Ellen Black, 9 Elephants

"Shaila, with her design artistry and website-setup and management skills, has provided me with superior services. She is prompt, responsive, and extremely easy to work with. On various projects of website design and setup, sell-sheets, postcards, bookmarks--all reasonably priced--she has been outstanding. I recommend her without reservation!"
-- Loren Woodson, author, THE PASSION OF MARYAM www.lorenwoodson.com

"Shaila Abdullah is a remarkable artist. When she designed my organization's website (Voices Breaking Boundaries/ www.vbbarts.org), no one on our staff had a clear picture of what we wanted. Shaila guided us, told us to collect images, create text, and visualize a dream template. Once she received all the materials, she emailed us several mark-ups and we had numerous conversations with her about what worked and what didn't. She went on to create a website that surpassed our expectations. It's visually powerful, easy for us to do internal text updates, and best of all, represents our organization’s spirit. Ever since this site has been up, we have received many compliments on the design and how easily people can maneuver through it. We love it! And we love working with Shaila. We strongly recommend her as design consultant."
—Sehba Sarwar, Founding Director, Voices Breaking Boundaries

"Every aspect of working with Shaila was a pleasure.  She was able to focus on my vision for our website and distill that information to give me a number of design ideas which were all outstanding.  It was truly hard to
choose which one of these great design ideas we should use.  Shaila met every deadline she committed to and the project was completed on the day she promised.  It was a refreshing experience working with someone as
professional as Shaila. Abdullah."

--Paul Bailey, President, Preston Hunter, Inc.

"Working with Shaila Abdullah has far exceeded my expectations. I have been impressed with her exceptional artistic and creative talent, high degree of technical knowledge, communication skills, and commitment to customer service. The products (book cover and website) she designed for me are beautiful works of art that I'm confident will support my book's success. It's been a delight and privilege to work with Shaila, and I look forward to working with her again on future projects."
-- Leslee Tessmann, Author of Sacred Grief: Exploring a New Dimension to Grief

"I just wanted to say thanks so much for building my website (www.keepersofthegrill.com). Your service was far superior to my initial web developer, and the aspects of the site you included that I did not even think of are going to make my business flourish out there in the world wide web. Your ability to tweak my initial design and make it all that much more better have simply made the "sneak peaks" that I have given to those close to me so excited for me and my business.  I even had one of my friends say that he wish he would have invested in the business when I approached him 4 years ago to see if he wanted to help bring it up to the next level back then.  It obviously took a bit longer for me individually, but better to have stayed diligent and seen it through, and acquired the right people at the right time.  You are a God send, and I am so thankful for you as a person and a friend more then even a web developer." 
-Johnny Ward, Keepers of the Grill

"Shaila has an uncanny ability to transform the most abstract concepts and complex requirements into designs that are at once brilliantly artistic and functional. Her creative vision, professionalism, accomodating attitude and proactiveness are true assets. When she commits to any work, you can rest assured it will be done on time with the highest quality. Shaila manages competing project demands exceptionally, always exceeding expectations. Her positive and sweet nature makes it a joy to work with her and turns even a challenging project into an exciting venture - Shaila indeed makes it happen with ease and sophistication!" 
-- Anita Parpia Manager, Resource Development and Volunteer Programs Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A.

"I work for a non-profit in Austin and we were developing a website for an event where we had almost no time to get it done and even less money to get it done with.  Shaila immediately stepped in with her generous heart and amazing talent and created an absolutely beautiful website that was exactly what we needed.  Thank you Shaila for all of your hard work and efforts." 
-- Monica Burcham

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