I’ve worked in the field of computers for about 20 some years now. Far more than I care to admit to. Most people that graduated when I did are starting to think about retirement, whereas I’ve made the crazy decision to start my own business over the internet building, marketing and designing websites. It’s not entirely my fault, I think I was just a little too complacent when making college decisions so many years ago, and my parents didn’t really push me in a direction at all. While I do enjoy working with computers, doing web design has to be the most divergent form of computer work then I could imagine from where I started.
Initially, I did all my paid computer work on mini or mainframe computers. Heck, we didn’t even have color monitors till I had been working for about five years. Don’t even get me started on the differences between dumb terminals and PC’s. That’s a whole discussion for another day. While I don’t have any formal training in the graphic arts, let’s just say I believe I do have an eye for what looks good on a computer screen. My formal training is more on the back end / server side scripting type of web work. I actually enjoy hacking out some PHP code once in a while. Since I do a lot of work in WordPress, I rely a lot on the abundance of free templates put up my much more talented designers than I’ll ever be.