Design Background
In response to the frequently asked question of :: “How Did you Get Into Doing Webdesign? Did you Study it in School?”
I began with print media design as the Editor-in-Chief of my high school newspaper when I was 15-17. I began doing layout with Adobe Pagemaker on really old late 80s Macs. During this time, I became obsessed with Fonts, creative layout design, and B&W Photography. Simultaneously I became completely obsessed with the burgeoning Internet, during its early years in 1996 & 1997, just as I was completing high school. When I began college in fall of 1997, I became seriously completely obsessed with the Internet, and for the next 6 years completely self taught myself HTML. I began with Tripod.com in 1997 & 1998 and had two tripod sites, and then moved onto buying my own domain, coding my own HTML, beginning with Tables & Frames. Over the years, my understanding of pixels, tables, HTML coding, etc, improved and got better, albeit slowly because I was completely intuitively self-taught, and absorbing other people’s HTML code by looking at “View – Source”. Over the years, I have owned probably near a dozen web domains, and probably made over 40 websites, although I really have no idea.
My understanding of Photoshop developed gradually over the years as well. However, in the recent years, I noticed the explosion of the current CSS revolution and I realized I would either die in the dinosaur age of HTML or evolve to the next level. Last year, I designed my final HTML site, and the laborious process of putting that together made me want to throw in the towel & be done with web design all together and leave it for the modern geniuses of CSS. But finally, I decided to take a gamble and dabbled in my first Wordpress site last September. Simultaneously, I finally discovered “Brushes” and “Templates” – this has allowed a whole new level of my design work to evolve. I am so grateful for the new design toolsets, especially Wordpress! I’ve finally begun making print media – Flyers & Business Cards – this year as well.
