About Mark Elster

Mark Elster, award-winning Interactive Creative Director, Drupal Specialist, Social Media Consultant and Musician, has a proven track record of translating business goals into innovative designs for brand identities and bringing them to fruition on the web.

With a passion for typography, color, and imagery, his creative expertise and thorough knowledge of CSS and web standards enable a smooth transition between design and implementation. He is focused on designing a better user experience for community-driven websites using the “latest and greatest” Open Source Content Management Platform - Drupal.

Mark's leadership experience has directed fast-paced teams in strategic planning, creative development and technical implementation, often bridging the gap between designers and engineers. He has worked on projects for 3Com, Ask a Ninja, BeVocal, Brightmail, C&H Sugar, Contivo, E.piphany, Fujitsu, Macromedia, Nuance, Palm Computing, Reconnex, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, and Verisign and is comfortable producing results in high-pressure situations.

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Recent Projects

“I am NOT a techie! So, I needed a real sharpshooter when I launched my brand new website. Mark (and Doug) at Dagaz Solutions built me a beautiful interactive website where I can easily post my articles, videos and slide shows, as well as to promote my book. Mark also introduced me to social marketing for business, with me now active and linked to thousands of others on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Friendfeed, YourTube and more. All of these elements interact perfectly with my website. Mark Elster is a genius and I am thrilled to highly recommend him!”

Mark Curtis
Communications Consultant - Political Analyst
Mark Curtis Media

"Mark Rocks! You will love the way he works with you do get the job done - the one you hired him to do - and get out of your own way!

His creative ideas are amazing and so so so very committed to not letting you off the hook - to push through and get the result you want and WHY on the reason you hired him in the first place - he has the how to make it happen for you - what ever it is!"

Ida Centoni
Founder
Performance Momentum

...thank you for your work on the 50x15foundation.org website. You were able to port a significant amount of content from the old site, and reproduce it in a nice clean format with effective navigation techniques. The effort you put into creating Drupal Content Types for much of the content will contribute to ongoing ease of maintenance by content editors. The overall result was very pleasing considering our restricted design budget.

Thanks for delivering a quality product on time and on budget.

Lyn Lyons
Global Inventures

“Mark's work for our project was exceptional. We couldn't have achieved the results we did without his design/development expertise and quick turnaround time. Looking forward to working with Mark again.”

Michael Beddows
Founder
ProjectStars

“As a consultant and director of corporate marketing, I have hired Mark for two critical branding and web site initiatives. In 2003 he executed a superior web site and road show presentations for Brightmail Anti-Spam prior to the company being acquired by Symantec. In 2005, under tight time constraints, Mark refreshed the corporate identity and created an exceptional Web2.0 corporate web site for BeVocal. These efforts directly impacted the successful sales efforts and positioning of the company, leading to its acquisition by Nuance.”

Bob Dorr

“Mark gets it. He is personable, efficient, and very good at what he does. I highly recommend him.”

Brian Banmiller
Business Broadcast Journalist
Banmiller On Business

“Mark is an amazingly great person to work with. His work is great, he delivers what he says he will do, his design is really great and his knowledge and integrity is remarkable! I would work with him again and highly recommend him to anyone.”

Jaime McNeely

"Mark provided outstanding assistance in a time of dire need without advanced notice. He was able to avert a serious web design issue with ease as he's more than qualified in his field."

Joshua Needham
Owner
App Ventures, LLC

"Absolutely beautiful and perfect! Just exactly what I wanted. Thank you Mark for your vision and willingness to stay with it."

Dorene Mahoney, SPHR
Founder
StepWell Coaching

"Wow, you nailed it! This is exactly what we asked for, you went way beyond our expectations."

Tisha Kawcak
Directof of Marketing and Events
Chatom Vineyards

"The new site is more interactive; well connected to the top social and business networking sites; and is much more adaptable to audio/visual elements. My website traffic shot up immediately. I am very pleased!"

Mark Curtis
Owner and Media Specialist
Mark Curtis Media

"When I first saw our new site, I was speechless. It literally took my breath away. Thank you, thank you, thank you."

Gay Callan
Owner
Chatom Vineyards

"Mark did a beautiful job on my logo and website design. He listened well and worked with me to turn my very rough ideas of imagery and color into an elegant and coherent identity. The whole look delights me. He's also very pleasant to deal with and meets his time commitments."

Dorene Mahoney, MA, SPHR
Principal
StepWell Coaching