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David Mallen Designs has created top-notch graphic design for more than 10 years. Starting his career in Print Design has given David Mallen a solid background in creating clean, cutting-edge Web sites and print collateral. His graphic design experience began in the newspaper business, creating layouts for the San Diego Union Tribune, the Daily Breeze, and the Ventura County Star. Since 2000 David has been the sole proprietor of David Mallen Designs, creating a diverse portfolio ranging from Web sites to banner ads as well as trade show banners, software boxes, brochures, magazine ads, catalog layouts, and business cards.

Education
David Mallen graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a bachelor of arts degree in Literature. Furthering his education, David completed the award-winning Journalism program at Santa Barbara City College and continues to enroll in graphic design and Web design classes.

Tools
David Mallen Designs uses the latest software to create it's designs. For print projects we use the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and Acrobat) as well as QuarkXPress. For Web Design we use Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks and Adobe ImageReady. Through continued collaboration with artists, photographers and other creative professionals the highest quality of work is achieved.

Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Optimization - the art of achieving higher placement in internet searches by Google & Yahoo! - is something we take very seriously at David Mallen Designs. While many companies will offer higher placement by trying to trick the search engines, (which only leads to being ignored) we pride ourselves in following the Webmaster guidelines of Google and Yahoo! to get you a higher ranking in search results.