Born in Clearfield, lived and grew up in Beech Creek, Mill Hall and Lock Haven. I'm 28 years old and I have two older sisters. I currently work as customer service representive for Brodart Company in Newberry. My husband and I live in Mill Hall with our two cats, puppy and chinchilla.
My interest in HTML and websites started when I was about 13, Geocities offered free web hosting and page support so I wanted to make my own website(s). I was shown a bit ofthe basics by the (then) Ross Library's Childrens Librarian and I quickly began looking at the way other pages were built, deconstrucing them and learning how all the bits work and worked together. I had at one point, a Lola Bunny fan page, a Animorphs fan and upcomming news page, and I had another page that was sorta just about me and the other webpages that I liked and it linked to them and the pages I had created. Unfortunaly I did not back up or save these and so when Geocities stoped supporting the old free hosting I lost the pages and the work I had done.
The reason I am now currenlty going for my BIM bachlors is because I have always enyjoyed working and designing websites and all the images and layout that goes into them. This is actualy my second time enroling to Penn College, the first time was for an assicoates in Advertising Art. This is currently my second semester into this degree.
My hope with this degree is to find employment working on designing, maintaining and producing webpages. The company I currenlty work for actualy has a position open for a web developer that I applied for in the hopes of getting my foot in door.
As far as uses for the skills I am knocking the rust off of and buliding on, I can see several. I will be compatant in creating and manageing webpages, making them both functionl, atractive to look at and intuative to use. This last part I will work very hard on as it one of my biggest pet peeves and there are several parts of my companies shopping site that bug me greatly. Perks of having all the aformentioned skills is that I am more hireable as I can do all the "Web page stuff" for which ever company I get hired by. This makes me more likly to find employment and to earn a bit more than somone who only knows coding, or who only knows design. I also simply enjoy being well rounded in my knowlege. I enjoying bulding a site from the ground up and then looking at the compleated project and being happy that "I made that".