[Webpro] Introduction

[Kath]

Thought I'd introduce myself.  May be a way to get things moving.

I'm in Northern NJ.  I've been designing web pages since 1995.  Until this 
past August, I was working for a wine importer - winebow.com - and I was 
basically a 1 person web design team.  I did everything that needed to be 
done with the site - design, layout, graphics, coding, Flash - but develop 
the database.

The company eliminated my position in August due to financial reasons, so 
I've been looking for another full time gig.  In the mean time I did a 
freelance project for an artist - http://www.symmetricalproductions.com/ 
(She wanted the Flash intro - and I couldn't talk her out of it <g>).  I'm 
still working on polishing it up a bit.

I may be doing an e-commerce site (my first) for her brother, but I'm still 
working on getting a full time job.  I'm not good at sales, so I don't 
think I can manage just doing freelance.

I usually score in the center of right brain/left brain tests so I can 
handle both the creative and the technical aspects of web design.  Because 
of that I'm a bit of a "Jill of all trades," but not really an expert at 
either - although I can hand-code valid HTML and CSS.

My personal site - www.cyber-kat.com is almost completely done using CSS 
positioning (though I'm still cleaning up the CSS - it's a bit messy even 
though it validates <g>).  Nearly all of the graphics (such as they are <g> 
- are original).

I learned quite a bit of ASP when I was working at Winebow - I did all the 
templates in the dynamic Italian wine section.  My personal site is hosted 
(fantastic web host, BTW) in a LAMP environment. so I'm currently trying to 
learn PHP and MySQL.

Kath ...
Established 1995 --> www.cyber-kat.com
"He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from 
oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that 
will reach to himself." -Thomas Paine(1737-1809)      philosopher and writer.
Anybody who can beat Bush for President in 2004! <g>