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I am a web designer from beautiful Fresno, California. I have an awesome wife, with a daughter on the way, and we live here with our three dogs and two cats. It's basically a small zoo around our house. When I am not busy designing or playing with some code, I enjoy cooking, strumming the guitar, playing frisbee with Dakota and reading a good book. It's an exciting life.
My adventures into building websites started around 1997. I would build sites with a wysiwyg html editor and create ridiculously ugly graphics in photoshop, usually involving lots of flames and beveled text. After getting bored with the wysiwyg editors, I dove into the wild world of nested tables and font tags and started writing html markup by hand; I thought I was awesome! Over the next couple years I tinkered with websites on and off as I explored other interests.
After a couple years of college, constantly switching my major, and a brief exploration into a culinary career, I finally found my calling after taking a introductory graphic design class. With my new found love of graphic design, I got back into building websites and discovered web standards. My eyes were now open the errors of my earlier ways. I was now hooked and learned everything I could about web standards and best practices, I read and coded, read some more and coded some more.
I graduated from CSU Fresno in 2007 with my degree in art with a graphic design option and have been building websites ever since. The thing I like most about designing and building things for the web is the constantly changing techniques and challenges that pushes me to always keep learning and experimenting. I think being a part of Fee Fighter team would offer me unique challenges and opportunities to create some awesome products to take on the financial industry head on.
Knocking visual designs and wireframes into next week. Working in conjunction with the complete Adobe Suite for rapid prototyping and idea generation.
Kicking out code and taking names. The powerful features and bundles make knocking out markup a breeze. It's my text editor of choice.
Dropping fools with semantic markup. Practicing web standards for progressively enhancing experiences. I have a blast marking up HTML and I enjoy debating HTML semantics.
Sock it to you styles. Taking it to the next level with CSS3 but also sticking to the fundamentals to create smooth cross browser layouts. Sometimes I go into a zen state when writing CSS, I absolutely love it.
Bringing CSS to its knees. They say once you go Sass you can't go back and boy is that true. Using mixins and variables in css is a dream and I've even wrote a few compass extension just for the heck of it.
Rock the DOM. While I'm not a javascript expert, I'd say I'm fairly competent and jQuery has changed the way I create UI's and site interactions. Experimenting with jQuery is one of my current favorite things to do.
Making them see red. I really enjoy Ruby and like getting opportunities to use it. I play with Rails on and off just for fun and fear no erb file.
Getting a grip on your files. I'll admit I am kind of a git noob, but I'm currently learning it and know I will soon be rocking it like no other.