Well I really enjoy my work. I get a kick out of working on different websites everyday. The challenge of solving the problems that come up. How to convey the clients message or intentions via their website, or how to accomplish some technical aspect of a clients site without disrupting the design. When I create a design, I usually have parallel thoughts running through my mind as to how I will accomplish my vision technically and asthetically. What approach is best? Flash, Static HTML pages or a CMS? How to organize the information to suit the clients. I would absolutely hate a job that never challenged me to think and overcome some kind of problem. Give me the site requirements and let me sit down at my desk and see how many ways I can solve your request.
- I have a Bachelors Degree in Graphic Design that I received from California State University, Sacramento.
- I don't have a Masters Degree although the thought has crossed my mind.
- I don't like the Papyrus type face and I am partial to Caslon and Helvetica Neue.
- I have served in both the Army Reserves and the Active Army, 4 years with each.
- I had a Top Secret clearance while in the Reserves because I was a Secure Communications Repairer at the time.
- The FBI once questioned my neighbors about my personal activities and other miscellaneous things (see previous bullet for why).
- Languages, skills and software I use.
- HTML
- XHTML
- CSS
- PHP
- ASP
- ASP.NET
- Coldfusion
- MySQL
- Joomla CMS
- Flash
- Actionscript
- Photoshop
- Visual Studio
- I learned how to write html by hand way back in 1997 by reading a book. (A book! imagine that!!).
- I learned CSS by following online tutorials after being fed up with table based layout techniques.
- I started using PHP while creating PHPNuke based site for a Soccer team
- I have been using SQL for a couple of years now, with MySQL databases mainly.
- I don't know what to say about Joomla, I found it while looking for a "good" open source CMS to use with clients. It has been amazing to work with and just keeps getting better. It makes it so much easier to design a complete look and feel for a client and then empower them to keep up their site without an IT department.
- I toyed with Flash for many years, but I took the dive in 2004 after learning how to use Director and wishing it could do more. Flash is very versatile, it can be a whole site, a dynamic accent to a site or a more functional component.
- Actionscript was imposing at first, but once I really started working with it I wanted to do nothing but that.
- I started as a Photoshop novice back on version 2.5 in a Kinkos in Dover, Delaware. I'm on CS3 now and I love it.
- Picked up on ColdFusion April 2008, wrote a CMS with it by July 2008.
- Working with some ASP.NET C# at the moment.
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