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My name is Stephen. I create websites. This is one of them, and I've made a whole bunch of others, too. You should check them out by clicking on the Portfolio link to the left. They're pretty cool.
I also maintain and post regularly to the Deadly Computer Blog. You should check it out because it's full of all sorts of interesting stuff that I find as I stumble around the internet.
I started my adventures into the realm of HTML way back in 2005, when I was looking for a way to better put my microwave experiments on display. Ah, college life. Anyway...my friend and I started this website, and it, like us, has grown since then.
Back then, I only knew HTML, and not very well (I was in school to become a Civil Engineer). With each passing month, however, I spent more and more time playing around with CSS and PHP instead of doing Structural Analysis. Clearly, it was time to rethink my chosen field of study. So I changed majors, and BAM! Now I'm a webdeveloper!
I love CSS. I consider myself to be an expert in that area. Whenever I want to do something with a website, I look up how to do it in CSS. I only resort to JavaScript when necessary for interaction. In addition, I pride myself on writing very neat, easy-to-follow CSS code, but that's probably just a little OCD-like tendency coming out in me.
When I discovered jQuery a mere year ago I was impressed. At that time I was writing all my JavaScript myself, and not very good at it. I never liked JS, and I tended to avoid it wherever possible. But jQuery makes everything so much simpler.
I also came across Prototype while working on someone else's site, and I liked it a lot, too. Some of the most popular sites on the web use Prototype.
As I move from project to project and my skills evolve, I find myself knowing each new code library better than the last. Such is life, I suppose!
