About Floatleft

Floatleft is a development and design team located in Atlanta, GA and the Netherlands. We have been working together and providing our services to an international group of NGO and nonprofit organizations since 2003.

Who we are

Courtney Miller | Developer

Courtney has been developing Drupal sites for nonprofits since 2003. Her work in this area began when she moved from Atlanta to Amsterdam where she began volunteering with ASCII, a free public Internet space, and became absorbed in learning about open source software and how it can be applied to the nonprofit sector. She began working with Tactical Technology Collective, was asked to partner with Marieke van Dijk and Auke Touwslager of Anderemedia to build a new web site for the organization, and the work of Floatleft began.

Previously, Courtney worked for IBM, implementing web sites for the IBM Intranet and Internet, and for a start-up web software company, WebTone technologies, as a Technical Analyst. Her interest in nonprofit technology services began back in 1995 when she started volunteering with the Georgia Justice Project, an organization she has continued to support as a volunteer. She has a degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Florida.

Marieke van Dijk | Designer

Marieke creates visual concepts to match the style of your organization, and her simple yet effective designs help to develop usable information technology. Her main expertise is in identity and brand development, creating just the right image for your web presence. Marieke is also the co-founder and information designer of Anderemedia, a Dutch web agency active since 2001 which is focused on creating innovative web tools. She is also an affiliate of the Govcom.org Foundation, based in Amsterdam.

What does Floatleft mean?

'Float' is a term for positioning content in CSS based page layouts. Float can be 'left' or 'right', but we tend to float to the left.

Credits

We give thanks to natasha elizabeth for the photo above (© 2004 natasha elizabeth) and to our good friend Mathias Kom for editorial assistance with Floatleft.

This site was implemented using the open source content management system Drupal and is hosted by OpenSourceHost.