Drupal Developer, Writer

My name is Lynn Siprelle. I'm a Drupal developer based in Portland, Oregon, and a writer of both fiction and nonfiction. I wanna develop a website for you in Drupal, or help you with your existing one.

This portfolio is built on Drupal 6.x, using Dynamic Fonts, Views, Imagecache, CCK and a bunch of CCK add-ons, and the awesome Fusion theming environment with Skinr. The background image is courtesy the talented Jennifer Clason. It's a pretty simple, straightforward Drupal site.

I'm a web developer focusing exclusively on Drupal, and a writer of both fiction and nonfiction. I've been building websites since 1994, when I first saw Mosaic; in fact, I remember when we got the ability to center text.

It was so exciting!

My pre-web life involved broadcast journalism--primarily radio, which is one reason I don't have an awesome picture of myself. From 1994 to 1996, I worked at Teleport Internet Services. I was its first employee, and helped it grow from a three-person operation to the largest regional ISP in the Pacific Northwest. My final position was Webmistress, a title some folks in the area still use to refer to me. It was perhaps the longest two years in my life, in both good and bad ways. Mostly good. I was also one of the co-owners of Portland's first internet cafe, The Habit.

I struck out on my own in late 1996 and developed many, many websites long since gone into the ether. In 1999, I founded my own still-running e-magazine/blog, The New Homemaker, focused on resources and information for stay-at-home mothers and caregivers, though the readership has moved far beyond that focus group. A couple of my articles are referenced in Wikipedia, to my astonishment. In 2005, I started a local blog for journalists called Oregon Media Insiders; it folded in 2009 when I couldn't maintain the commitment any longer. (A longtime reader has since stepped into that void, and does a better job than I could do.)

A long illness took me out of the professional web development business for about four years. In that time, I focused on my own properties, and on a new passion for writing fiction. Now I'm much better. I'm returning to active development, focusing exclusively on Drupal and preferably on sites hosted on my own server.

When I'm not writing or making webstuffs, I mother two homeschooled daughters, knit, spin yarn, ride my Xtracycle, bellydance in the tribal style, and collect weird perfume. I'm married to this guy, whose mustache is even more awesome than it looks in that picture. He's also a sysadmin with my upstream host, which makes it easy to get advanced tech support at a moment's notice.

Note: I am NOT responsible for anything anyone says on the sites I host and provide tech assistance for. They own their words. I may or may not agree. Don't assume I do.