Kestrel Website Design in Decatur, Illinois

Kestrel Web Development for Agricultural & Beyond

Kestrel Website Design offers search-engine friendly, responsive (mobile-friendly) web design & development, graphic design, ad lay-out, brochure design, logo development, E-mail blasts and web marketing to businesses and organizations of many sizes.

We specialize in website design for agriculture and farms, government, museums, historic sites, foundations and special districts.

A Brief History

Kestrel Website Design grew out of Kestrel Technologies, Inc., which was founded in 1992 as a commercial photography and computer services provider.

With a focus on rural America and agri-business, Kestrel Technologies, Inc. built its first web sites for the agriculture industry.

We are located in Decatur, Illinois, the “Soy Capital of the World.” We continue to serve the ag industry with contemporary web design, custom logos, graphics, web marketing and web consulting.

Who We Are

Virginia Dahms
Founder & CEO

Virginia sent her first E-mail in 1989 while working as a researcher in Biophysics at the University of Illinois. She was one of the earliest users of Netscape, the world’s first web browser, and Eudora, the first icon-based E-mail program, both of which were developed at the University of Illinois.

She saw the potential of the Internet and left academia to start a private company that provided web sites, IT services, E-mail and Internet service to a growing public hungering for new communications technology.

After building her first web site in 1996 for a grain elevator cooperative, Virginia began developing other web sites for agriculture companies, family farms, and rural businesses which became the basis for Kestrel Web Design and Development and still is today.

Virginia grew up in Kansas City, graduated from the University of Southern California, and has lived in rural Illinois for many years.

The Team

Nicole Heath
Web Engineer

Fred Seibold
Office Manager & Content Writer

Sara Gooding
Graphic Designer