Nighttide was founded by Heidi and Darren Henderson, two individuals who are well-experienced in helping small businesses start their own internet presence. With over 20 years of combined internet and programming experience, they use their expertise to create websites that are professional, affordable, and attractive.

Heidi Henderson

Heidi Henderson began designing Web Sites two years before she graduated from Hanover College in Hanover, IN in 1996. Since then, she has worked in both the Print Graphic Design and Web Development fields. She served as Online Project Manager for Landmark Community Newspapers, Inc. from January 1997 to March 2001. While there, she helped nearly 30 national non-daily newspapers, collegiate sports publications, tourism commissions, and small businesses build an online presence. Two of her newspaper sites won the Press Association awards for best non-daily newspaper Web Site in their respective states in the year 2000.

As Nighttide's Chief Web and Graphic Designer, she continues to use her knowledge of multimedia, web, and graphic design to stay on the cutting edge of web design. Her specialties include HTML coding, CSS, PHP, and Javascript, and graphics design using the latest in traditional and cutting-edge technology.

Darren Henderson

Darren Henderson graduated from the University of Maine in 1985 where he earned his bachelors' degree in Computer Science and in Psychology. Over the past 20 years he has worked as a programmer, analyst, and network/systems administrator. He has experience with platforms ranging from PCs to mainframes, as well as large variety of operating systems. He is fluent in a number of programming languages inlcuding Perl, C, Cobol, and PHP.

For the past twelve years he has worked as a developer and network/system administrator in an environment consisting of numerous AIX and Novell systems with Windows NT clients. He has extensive knowledge of AIX and FreeBSD and has worked with a number of other UNIX variants.

Darren is Nighttide's chief programming consultant. He has extensive experience developing web based applications in Perl, PHP and other web development languages. He is quite familiar with Apache, the most widely used web server on the Internet.