One day, my dad decided he was going to market his latest hobby on the internet and he told me he wanted me to do the website. I told him I didn’t know anything about it, but he had faith in me, and encouraged me to look into it. So I started out with my design, and learned a few tricks off the internet to get it coded, and relied heavily on the WYSIWYG advantage that Dreamweaver gave me. Pretty soon,we had a fully functioning website, even equipped with shopping cart ability! Needless to say, as is apparent by the lack of a hyperlink in this story, the site never went live. But I had my start.

Being a web designer isn’t something I dreamed of doing, it’s something that all happened on accident.

This gave a boost to my interest in computer graphic design, and I wound up designing various headers and buttons for the web forum my husband was involved in. Pretty soon, this led us to the use of phpBB. Naturally, we wanted a custom design and I got to learn again about html. This also opened up more knowledge about CSS, and it’s power. But the biggest thing it taught me was tables- nasty, overused, overcrowded tables. Still, I started getting small jobs doing graphic editing and small coding jobs. I was having fun and making a few dollars on the side, sounds good to me!

Then came the revelation of table-less, css based design. I can’t exactly remember what brought me to WordPress, but I do know that it was exactly what I needed to take me over the hurdle of switching from tables to css. I had read about it, was confused by it, and over-looked it, until I started getting potential jobs torn from my wimpy grasp by those flashy words, “VALID XHTML/CSS CODING!” What? What is that?

So I opened my freshly packed WordPress installation, and got a whiff of the future. I tore down the templates, tried creating my own, all of the things I did to learn phpBB. I figured out how to get columns, and hover effects, and all the neat things css gives you while letting you keep clean, semantic code. Pretty soon, business was picking up, and my paypal account was seeing more digits.

Then about a year ago, my husband had to leave his job due to illness, and I prayed for an increase. Almost overnight, my business tripled, and each month, my income was increasing little by little. Pretty soon, what started out as a hobby, had quickly become a full-time, grocery buying, light bill paying, job. And I love it!

So here I am, self taught, and well experienced. I have a reputation for friendliness and quick turn around, and I am able and willing to take just about any project you can dish out!

I am a young work-from-home mom with three darling daughters, and a loving husband of 6½ years. We make our home in a little community outside of Birmingham, Alabama called Snowtown. We have one cat, Nilah, 5 glofish, 4 guppies, 1 high fin tetra, and 2 Chinese algae eaters.