Tarek Anandan (me) is a freelance website designer based in Washington DC. I design and build custom websites, primarily for nonprofit organizations and other socially focused ventures. I offer full scale website design and development services, website maintenance services, and consultation on online communications strategy, search engine optimization, and web analytics/statistics.
Tarek is motivated by good communications, an interest in programming, a fascination with data, a love of creativity and design, and a focus on improving society.
Tarek has contributed to the conceptualization, design, and development of more than 60 websites. My projects have included websites for agencies of the Federal government, numerous nonprofit organizations including think tanks and foundations, indviduals, and a handful of small businesses. My experience spans small sites with a modest amount of traffic and infrequent updates, to sites with daily updates and traffic exceeding 50,000 visitors per month. For a quick overview of my entire process and the major steps involved in most projects, you can view this brief presentation.
Tarek serves as a remote webmaster for numerous websites. I serve as the sole webmaster for organizations that don't need or can't afford a full time staff person. In other cases, I complement organizations' internal staff by offering specialized expertise.
Tarek helps turn mere numbers into meaningful information and practical advice. I enjoy helping my clients get excited about the data provided in tools like Google Analytics, WebTrends, or simple log files. More importantly, I enjoy helping them use the information to improve their organization's performance.
Tarek helps organizations establish and effectively use e-marketing techniques. I help organizations establish e-mail marketing campaigns with lists as few as a hundred subscribers to ones with more than 10,000 subscribers.
Tarek helps ensure that your content gets discovered, shared, and used. Tarek explains SEO, Google's PageRank, and related issues in non-technical terms and helps to address the issues that are keeping your content from reaching its potential.
Tarek has worked in the website field since 2000, but has academic training in economics and public policy. I offer a combination of technical expertise and substantive knowledge that provides a unique service to nonprofit organizations and the like.
Throughout my career I have maintained a close connection to the nonprofit and social sectors. I am a founding Board Member of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of Washington DC, served on the Alumni Board of Governors of the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and have worked with the American Institutes for Research since 2003, a nonprofit social science and behavioral research organization.
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