Neat Stuff ¢

Hi, you're here reading about me so I should thank you for taking some of your time to read this. This site has been a huge time investment which I'm more than happy to redo multiple times because I love designing and coding websites. Read on to learn a bunch of semi important details about me.

My Journey ±

I am a Graphic/Web Designer living in Lincoln, Nebraska. After graduating from college in 1997 I worked in the print industry as a graphic designer. In the year 2000 I decided to teach myself how to make websites. I started with my own site at settlers.net and went on to create other sites while I continued to work professionally as a graphic designer. In 2003 I found a part-time job at a local retailer which led to a promotion and a full-time job. In 2005 I decided to return to being a designer so I left my retail job to freelance as a web designer.

Semi Serious Stuff ÷

My specialties are in Art Direction and Design, CSS/XHTML Authoring, and Brand Development.

Exploring all areas of my creativity is important to me. I love exploring other design areas including fashion, furniture, music and culinary.

Trade Tool Expertise

I am Fluent using Dreamweaver, Flash, Freehand, Illustrator, and Photoshop. My programming knowledge includes, ActionScript 3.0, Xhtml 2.0, CSS 2-3, and XML 1.0. I have working experience with ASP, JQuery/Ajax, .Net. Javascript 1.5, PHP, MySQL, and Coldfusion on Apache.

Content Management System [CMS] Knowledge

Wordpress and Joomla

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Other Stuff ¥

If its not apparent already I do like stuff. I spend my free time on side projects learning new stuff(Am I crazy?) Well no, uh.. Besides talking to myself in my writings I also enjoy video games along the line of Civilization 4, about any Settlers game and I'm looking forward to Spore. I have the desire to remain skinny but I seem to blow up that plan every time I drive by a Starbucks.

Here's a quick list; TV: Battlestar Galactica, Movies: Sci-fi(Surprised?!}, Music: Trance, George Thorogood, Ben Folds, and Jedi Mind Tricks, Lifestyle: Green, Color: Blue