My experiences as a web developer

It has been suggested to me that others might benefit from reading about my experiences in digital development, so here we go. I hope you find this useful, or at least entertaining. We'll start with how I got where I am. I began this technological journey back more than 25 years ago when my then HP-employed father brought home the first computer of its kind, one that was small enough to fit in a home, the HP-85. He had me programming in BASIC in no time. By middle school we had Apple IIG's, and the graphics app of the time: TURTLE - anyone remember this? My college years saw me using a comand-line text editor on an HP-86, switching over to Windows 3.11 machines with gopher, and venturing into hyper-text (the first two letters of "http://") on none other than a Macintosh (back when they were known as Macintoshes).

When we got married my husband wanted a Macintosh but I refused, I really preferred the Windows machines. (What was I thinking?) So we bought our first PC, and have been a devout PC family for the past 16 years. On our first anniversary my husband came home with a use for our new computer, "There's the coolest thing I have to show you, it's called the World Wide Web." As he likes to remind me, my response was, "What is that good for? There's no practical application for that." I still made my first website that day.

After 6 years at HP in marketing and e-commerce, I have now been running my own business for over a decade designing websites and developing online applications, plus some digital photography and video editing.

Coming up next... the switch to an iMac!