September 25, 200818 yr Hello to everyone. My name is Randy. I am a new member here. (hope this is posted in right spot or I am off to a bad start) I have just completed my previous job of being a self-employed woodworker/custom furniture maker for almost 17 years. I am officially out of that line of work as of today! In the process of running that business and others I had made some websites for myself with Yahoo's Site Builder which is, of course, very easy to do but extremely limited. As time went on, many friends started asking me to build them sites. I am happy to say I no longer use any drag and drop software. I hand code every site in notepad thanks to tutorials from w3schools, tizag and others. As much as I have tried every option(Nvu, dreamweaver a bit, etc), I can't seem to find the same flexibility as I have with such a simple program! Hey, it all just generates code in the end, right? Anyhow, I am happy to be back to the enjoyment of computer programming which is something I last had when I was 16 years old on my Texas Instruments TI-99.($10 on e-bay to this day!) I am a full time web designer! I have a decent understanding of xhtml, css, dhtml, and cut and paste stuff from javascript, etc. I am now on to PHP. I get the concept but have a long way to go. Anyhow, I have many sites to build and some will be quite large so I look forward to learning from all of you in the future! What amazes me is that I spend equal time learning graphics software and learning the coding. BTW - I use Draw Plus X2 from Serif to lay out all my site graphics and have found it a great program for the money. Much easier than photoshop, but not as powerful. Does get the job done though with image optimizer on export and all. (bad to plug things?) Other than that, I am a performing musician and still freelance with furniture making. I look forward to being a part of this site and, someday, hope to have valued input for others! Thanks for getting to know me a bit! randy
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