History

I’ve been making websites since 2000, starting with site builders and working my way up to content management systems.

My first website was called “Aipom’s Apple Tree”, a Pokemon fansite made on Freeserve’s site builder (now called Wanadoo; which has now been taken over by Orange. That’s how long it’s been.) As far as I can remember, my site was really popular. I used to get loads of emails about it every day and I met lots of wonderful people through it.

After owning it for a few months, I realised that the site builder wasn’t as good as I originally thought, and I discovered a little thing called HTML. I taught myself a bit of coding using this site, and as I got used to it I knew quite a lot off by heart. I made an account on Angelfire, if I remember correctly, and moved my site there. The ads started to annoy me to no end, so I then moved to FreeWebs. I liked FreeWebs. They were easy to use and have little downtime. However, after the amount of websites I owned grew, I decided to leave FreeWebs and buy my own domain.

History of Design

I started designing my own layouts when I was first on Angelfire. I used to use Paint Shop Pro since I couldn’t figure out Photoshop, but now I use nothing but Photoshop! Adobe products are love!

I just taught myself through making mistakes, and I can now make decent looking graphics. I really enjoy working with pictures and photography, so making graphics is a great past time for me.

In senior school (2003/4) I studied Art and Design and received a GSCE award in the subject. I also studied a Graphic Design AS Level in college (2004/5), which was lots of fun. I used Photoshop throughout the course and impressed my tutors with my crazy skills (sort of). Since then I’ve been using Photoshop and the rest of the Adobe suite in my job.