More About Me

Welcome to my website design portfolio, and thanks for checking out my "about me" page. I am a 17 year old high school senior who has been studying website design & development for 3 years now. I have enjoyed every second of it, and it seems as though every day there is something new I learn. I love web design, and I first fell in love with it when I took a web design class in early high school. I took Web Design I and II in the same year, and after that it's just history.

Though there are no other Web-related classes to take at my school, I am taking an independent study this year coming up on web design, sort of creating my own curriculum. Along with the web class, I will also be competing in the Business Professionals of America competition this year as well. I competed in the Web Design competition last year and took home 1st place, so I'm hope to do the same this year as well. I also got 2nd place on a Fundamentals of XHTML test, which I am also very proud of.

A lot of my web design influence comes from social networking and "web 2.0" designs. I am a big advocate of the web 2.0 revolution, and I am a huge fan of social networking sites. I am currently planning on going to college for my Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science, then working as a developer for a social networking site. However I never plan to stop doing website design. I love freelancing, it keeps me motivated to stay at the top of my game and always learn new techniques to do things.

I am currently in the process of learning a bit more about how to work with Adobe Illustrator, as that seems like really interesting software to me. I love the entire Adobe Suite, and I couldn't work a day without it. I am also in the process of delving deeper into learning how Flash works, and learning some advanced Flash and ActionScript techniques. If you don't have any idea what I'm talking about, that's perfectly okay, it's just the designer in me flowing out. Long story short is that I love learning about web design, and even though I've got quite a bit under my belt, I'm having fun the more I do it.

I currently have two websites up aside from this one: my Kingdom Hearts fan-site Destiny Islands, which combines a video game fansite with social networking features, and my blog Inside the Sites, which I use to post interviews I get with cool sites. Having to manage all of these sites can be time consuming, but I have learned so much from launching 3 full sites that I would not wish any of it back.