About Daniel J. Wood

From fine artist to creative web designer
 
I have been interested in art for as long as I can remember. My parents were very supportive and supplied me with plenty of crayons, pencils, paper, and paints. I was exposed to books about art and artists and became familiar with famous works. In high school I took every art class available, and experimented with techniques in painting, drawing, cartooning and comic art.
 
In my senior year, I worked as a cartoonist for my school newspaper.
 
I attended an art college in Denver Colorado , to further my education in fine arts. I worked at various jobs throughout the years, and for a time as a commercial artist.
 
In 1999 I came up with the idea to start a new health product retail company with a friend who owned an adjustable bed company. He later became my business partner. We called the company a.m. Products and after researching eCommerce shopping carts, we decided to use the Yahoo! Store platform.
 
Creating a company, filing the paperwork, choosing a platform, and finding suppliers was the easy part.
 
After becoming familiar with the Yahoo! Store, I began the process of adding products from our distributor catalog one by one, and hundreds turned into thousands. 5,500 products later and summer well spent, we were now selling our products online!
 
I spent much of my time researching products and promoting our website. My office job duties included phone and email support, packaging the products and going to the post office to ship them out. I handled every aspect of running an internet company. We sold our products nationally as well as internationally. International sales made up 20% of our business.
 
In order to improve sales and attract more customers to our website, I decided we needed a professional and user friendly website. I decided to put my creative skills to the test and, after a week or so, we had a colorful, creative, and professional looking website! We received a ton of positive feedback about the site and I found myself continuing to improve the design, navigation, and shopping experience.
 
10 months later we were up to 40-50 orders a day and the business was booming! Money was coming in and sales were great. I was able to maintain a "5 Star Top Service" rating with Yahoo.
 
After about a year and a half of running our business, I decided to sell my shares to my business partner so that I could do what I love - website design and development.  I also wanted to spend more time with my family.
 
7 years of working with my clients has been a truly wonderful experience. Most of my web design business comes from referrals and the Yahoo Design directory. I am looking forward to the new year and some of the new services we are now offering.  They include Organic Search Engine Optimization and our new website promotion company New Ad City. New Ad City will include a storefront mall that will feature customer  store front and products, just like your local mall. Please check back with us regularly.

Daniel J. Wood  -Webmaster / CEO