How did an art-deficient musician get into web design, you ask? I?ve asked myself that a hundred times!

I was slow to get onto the Internet. My old boss and good friend Brad was (I swear) one of the first internet users. I had no use for chatting with people I didn?t know, so although I was an avid computer user, I limited myself to software applications.

Eventually the Internet morphed into the World Wide Web and I got a job that required going online for various purposes. By that time, I was also in school for computer science. Although we didn?t study any HTML, and the idea of dynamic sites was well out of my experience, I loved the idea of web pages. Graphics combined with code. What could be better? I was bound and determined to learn HTML.

One evening, while I was at work (I worked second shift and went to school during the day), then 12-year-old Kerri called me and asked me if I could teach her how to make a web page. I said, sure, maybe over the weekend we?d learn it together. Darned if that smarty-pants didn?t call me back an hour or so later and said never mind! She?d figured it out and now just needed to know how to upload.

Although I never learned it all that fast (Kerri would continually eclipse me with technical issues until I became proficient with databases, but I think she?s ready to pass me again), and my older sites are painfully dated, I fell in love with web design and all its potential. I studied a bit of graphic art, learned the Macromedia products, and got a job at a dot com, and absorbed everything I could. Sadly, the dot com closed, but I continued on my own, learned php, honed my design skills, and opened my own freelance business, White Wave Designs.

These days, I?m fortunate enough to be able to work on web pages all day! I am a programmer in the web development department of an area college, and continue to freelance. Life is good.