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Hello All; Introduction
Topic Started: Mar 27 2009, 03:12 PM (169 Views)
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I came here by way of an invite in a PM over at the HTML Forums. So, Alex, it worked and I hope I'm not the only one whose taken you up on the invite!

This is an introduction post, so I guess I should tell a little about myself.

As far as experience in Web development, I've been familiar with HTML since (at the risk of dating myself) the early 90's when the Internet was just really getting going.

That's quite a while, but, since my jobs and life took me in other directions, I haven't really kept up with the latest trends, technologies, and techniques all those years; until two years ago when I finished my bachelor's degree in Web Applications Development and landed a job programming using MS products (Visual Studio, SQL Server, etc.).

Shortly after that two things happened that really got me going in Web development from a freelance standpoint. 1) a friend asked me if I'd put together a Web site for her to promote a pet sitting business: Mel's Pet Pals, and 2) I helped start an amateur astronomy club in my area, and to reach the community I created the Web site for Glacial Lakes Astronomy and Stargazers Society.

Ever since my friend's Web site went live she's been asked a number of times who did her Web site, and referred two people to me. That prompted me to say the heck with it, buy a domain and set up shop. Eventide Web Design is the result of that.

At this point I know enough PHP to do includes, enough CSS for my pages to pass XHTML validation, and a little MySQL. I'm worthless as an artist, so I have to outsource that stuff, but I'm spending all the time I can working on learning PHP, CSS, MySQL, HTML, and the rest of the alphabet!

WHEW!!

That's a lot! Sorry if I got a little "wordy" there.

Alex, thanks for the invite. I don't know a huge amount right now, but I'll help where I can, and I'm looking forward to any learning I can do!!

See you in the forums, guys!

OOPS! I just now saw the template! Sorry! I'll catch up here:
Name: Mark Yorkovich
Age: (aw c'mon, guys - do I hafta?!? Oh, okay: 41 - there ya happy??!)
Location: Central Minnesota (God's Country...)
Likes: Nice people
Dislikes: Jerks
Languages of Interest: English? Just kidding: PHP & MySQL, but I'm fairly good in Visual Basic & Microsoft's flavor of SQL. Plus I need to learn JavaScript if I'm going to take this Web development freelanceing thing seriously...
More: I think this intro post is long enough as it is!!!
Edited by eventide, Mar 27 2009, 03:22 PM.
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Haha quite an entertaining post :D

Well thanks for joining our Community, I hope you will become an active member.

Your Pet Sitting Site is very well done nice job. ;)

Thanks again for joining us, and make sure to get involved with the community!
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Thanks for the kudos on the site, Alex - it's good to hear that from a fellow programmer.
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