Rachel Nabors

Current

• Graphic Designer at BBH Media
• Web designer, specifically front-end designer, and reformed cartoonist at selfemployed (Self-employed)

Past

• Web Designer at Atlantic BT
• Comic Artist at gURL.com at NBC Universal

Education

• elementary

Recommended

2 people have recommended Rachel

Connections

56 connections

Industry

Design

Websites

• My Company
• My Comics
• My Portfolio

Rachel Nabors’s Summary

I am a front-end designer with a knack for flawlessly slicing Photoshop design files into clean, structured code. Since the beginning of my six-year career, I've embraced web standards and semantics. I've maintained and improved legacy systems, keeping design consistent while transitioning code toward improved standards. I excel at balancing the nuanced details of accessibility and usability with the perfect replication of a design across browsers.

I have much experience manipulating social media channels to target and engage an audience, which I did extensively while I worked for iVillage promoting web comics. While SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a concern of mine, SNO (Social Network Optimization) I feel is a more effective way to reach your audience, so I give the social media aspect of every project my full attention.

My web comics for iVillage's gURL.com also won me the Friends of Lulu Kim Yale Award for Best New Female Talent in 2007.

Rachel Nabors’s Specialties:

CSS, semantic XHTML, Wordpress, social media, social marketing, Drupal, front end design, web design, SEO, women's comics and manga

Rachel Nabors’s Experience

• Graphic Designer

  BBH Media

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  February 2009 — Present (10 months)

  In-house graphic/front end designer for a Raleigh marketing and advertising company that manages large web properties and many advertiser.

• Web designer, specifically front-end designer, and reformed cartoonist

  selfemployed (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

  March 2002 — Present (7 years 9 months)

  I specialize in overhauling old, cranky, table-based sites and turning them into lean, mean code with my mad CSS skills. I love Wordpress and Drupal almost as much as I love the content-out site creation process.
  
  I also have enjoy playing with social networking sites (like this one!).
  
  I used to make comics for the teen girls' site gURL.com. Said comics won me legions of fan girls and even an award. I still make some on the side, but it's for pleasure, not profit now.

• Web Designer

  Atlantic BT

  (Internet industry)

  April 2008 — June 2008 (3 months)

  Making and editing web sites for mid-sized to large companies.

• Comic Artist at gURL.com

  NBC Universal

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; GE; Broadcast Media industry)

  May 2002 — March 2008 (5 years 11 months)

  I make comics for teenage girls. I've been weekly since November, 2006, having been monthly before that. I am responsible for writing, drawing, and preparing the comics for web deployment as well as promoting them through a large MySpace and blog network.

Rachel Nabors’s Education

• elementary

Additional Information

Rachel Nabors’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Comics
• My Portfolio

Rachel Nabors’s Interests:

feedback, social networks, second life, comics, manga, publishing, Egyptology, mythology, birds

Rachel Nabors’s Groups:

Women's Work, Sequential Tart, Teen Bit, Friends of Lulu

•    Comic Book Creators
•    Touch360 | strategy + innovation + design
•    iVillage - Old and New School
•    Connected Women
•    KERNSPIRACY: A Place for Designers to Share Secrets

Rachel Nabors’s Honors:

2003: finalist in the Seventeen sponsored CHANEL "Colour of the Year" Contest
2007: won Friends of Lulu's prestigious Kim Yale Award for Best New Female Talent

Rachel Nabors’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
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• new ventures
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