Mark Root-Wiley is a college student at Grinnell College in Grinnell, IA, web designer, graphic designer, percussionist and singer. He will now stop speaking in third person.

I am always interested in any sort of web design issues. I have been employed previously by Matrix: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters & Social Sciences online. I have also been an active member of the GrinnellPlans.com community, producing a Sociological Study of Grinnell Plans in 2006. I have also been involved in the redesign of the Michigan State University African Studies Center website and the hypertext for the paper published by my brother, Steve Wiley, on the online journal, Kairos, entitled "Identification Please - Communication and Control in an Online Learning Environment." Links to those and other pages are available on the My Websites page.

I believe that too many websites are cluttered, redundant, poorly organized, and designed to look pretty but not fit the content. As a designer it is my goal to consider these elements in each website I design.

This site is primarily to showcase my web and graphic design and secondarily to show examples of other interests. When not designing websites, I am a member of the Grinnell College percussion ensemble, in an a capella group, the graphics editor of the weekly school paper, the Scarlet & Black, and a sociology major.