Welcome to my brand-new blog
Welcome to my brand-new blog*. I intend to write about the work of making web sites here, both to share my experiences with others doing similar work, and maybe just to vent!
I made my first HTML page in about 1994. The Web was new and exciting, and I had a friend who knew how to make web sites, so I prevailed upon him to help me learn. I actually didn't own a computer at the time, though I spent a lot of the day on one at work and was beginning to be somewhat computer literate, and my friend let me go to his office when it wasn't in use and practice making web pages. It was all about typing HTML tags one by one ("hand-coding", as my colleagues love to call it). I think we had some kind of a very rudimentary HTML editor, but the main thing it did was to write the whole tag for you at once so that you didn't have to type the characters. You still had to know which tags went where. There was some kind of preview feature too, but all the work was done in "code view", as we Dreamweaver users would say.
Way back then, I remember wanting to do web design for a job, and joking with my (then) husband that "HTML" was an acronym for "Hoping to Make a Living".
After a year or two of playing around and building sites for free, another friend offered me some freelance work working on his company's web sites.
A couple of years later - almost six years ago now - I started my web design business, here in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. My "real job" for the past six years had been doing administrative work for some small companies, and though I was being paid pretty well, I was bored with the work and frustrated at not having more independence. That last job felt like a too-tight pair of shoes, and it was soon history.
Since then, I've been cranking out web sites - even getting slightly better at it over time, although I still have plenty to learn. I hope to share some day-t0-day experiences and my thoughts on 'em in this blog. Chenquieh!
* When I saw this phrase in print, I immediately thought, "Papa's got a brand-new blog", and was thinking of some witty way to work that in here, when it occurred to me that somebody probably thought of it first. A quick Google confirmed that (at least) this guy did. But, I digress.
I made my first HTML page in about 1994. The Web was new and exciting, and I had a friend who knew how to make web sites, so I prevailed upon him to help me learn. I actually didn't own a computer at the time, though I spent a lot of the day on one at work and was beginning to be somewhat computer literate, and my friend let me go to his office when it wasn't in use and practice making web pages. It was all about typing HTML tags one by one ("hand-coding", as my colleagues love to call it). I think we had some kind of a very rudimentary HTML editor, but the main thing it did was to write the whole tag for you at once so that you didn't have to type the characters. You still had to know which tags went where. There was some kind of preview feature too, but all the work was done in "code view", as we Dreamweaver users would say.
Way back then, I remember wanting to do web design for a job, and joking with my (then) husband that "HTML" was an acronym for "Hoping to Make a Living".
After a year or two of playing around and building sites for free, another friend offered me some freelance work working on his company's web sites.
A couple of years later - almost six years ago now - I started my web design business, here in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. My "real job" for the past six years had been doing administrative work for some small companies, and though I was being paid pretty well, I was bored with the work and frustrated at not having more independence. That last job felt like a too-tight pair of shoes, and it was soon history.
Since then, I've been cranking out web sites - even getting slightly better at it over time, although I still have plenty to learn. I hope to share some day-t0-day experiences and my thoughts on 'em in this blog. Chenquieh!
* When I saw this phrase in print, I immediately thought, "Papa's got a brand-new blog", and was thinking of some witty way to work that in here, when it occurred to me that somebody probably thought of it first. A quick Google confirmed that (at least) this guy did. But, I digress.
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