About


Anahita Saghafi (known on the web as RainStar) is the owner and founder of www.designmaze.co.uk . She works full time as an IT Manager and she also runs her own IT and Internet Consultancy company (www.integralnet.co.uk), specialised in Web Design using CSS. Anahita also have a great interest in Photoshop and Graphic Design which is reflected in her blog at (www.designmaze.co.uk) . In her spare time, she writes and runs (www.boldwriters.co.uk).

Anahita has years of IT and Internet-related experience. Her passion and dedication for technology, Web Design, Graphic Design and writing have made her successful in keeping up with the fast pace of the IT and related web technologies. Her web and graphic design blog can be visited at www.designmaze.co.uk

Here is some of Anahita's hisory related to web and graphic design:
Actively took part in art and design activities at school ... a long time ago!
Completed an oil painting course ... 1992
Attended a one year Art course ... 1993
Attended Drawing classes while studying for her PhD in Mathematics (Sheffield University)... 1994-1996
Took part in various art workshops and learnt a lot of computer skills ... 1996 -2002
Discovered Photoshop (and fell in love with it) and still learning... 2002 - Present
Studied use of Dreamweaver for web design - 2005
Starting developing web sites - 2006
2007
Studied the use of Cascading Style Sheets in web design layouts
Changed to fully CSS design web sites
2008
Created www.designmaze.co.uk
Started looking into Search Engine Optimisation and Traffic Building for web sites, and continued with looking into Web 2.0, Rich Internet Applications, mashups and APIs
2009
Built a web site for Dr Junying Kirk to promote her business by giving it a professional edge. You can find Junying' site at www.chineseinterpreting.co.uk.
Improved Bold Writers Web Site to have designated pages, including a bio page for writers
Developed CSS based Web Site for Dr B Bordbar - Birmingham University - http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~bxb/index.html
Looked into Twitter and Twitter Background Templates
Continued with Photoshop and photography and experienced with abstract and mathematical patterns
Got busy with Japanese animation and character design after a visit to Japan in summer
Started an art course entitled "Drawing with Charcoal and Pencil"
Looked into logo design methods and tools
Looked into book cover design
Looked into illustration for children's' books
Researched sculpture related drawing as part of the art course
Started to write a book on Web Design
Continuously kept up-to-date with mobile and web technology
Created portal site www.anahitadesign.co.uk
Developed interest in social networks - Facebook and Linkedin