“If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it”.

I have had my share of absurd ideas from my early childhood, but the one to become my own boss as a web designer was probably the most profound. At least in the eyes of certain people. I decided to leave it all behind, to look  nowhere else but inside and unleash the designer in me. The truth is, I have fallen in love with php Programming since 2005 when I was trying to “automate”  my then static  website. I wanted to store information in a “table” of some kind instead of having to edit the page every time I need  to carry out a change. With a little search on google, almost accidentally I realized what I was trying to do was exactly what server-side programming is all about. PHP became  my language of choice and I haven’t looked  back ever since. In September 2006, I was “playing” in the CPANEL of  bluehost (my host)  and I realized they had a fantastico  icon. I followed the link and landed on a bunch of applications that could be installed on a mouse click. In the days that followed I targeted wordpress because it was  different from what I was used to. It turned out that wordpress is undoubtedly the best content management system  for publishing on the Internet  today! Since then, I have developed some skills  and a better understanding of programming generally and the Internet in particular.

I have a few  reasons I chose to be a designer and I will detail them shortly below.

1. A skill in demand.

   Today millions of websites and blogs are create every single day for various reasons. You will be surprised  how many people lack the skills to maintain their own websites and blogs and yet want an “Online presence”. That’s where designers like me come in. Designing  a  functionally professional website requires to create a database that stores the info, interactive scripts  that fetch the info from the database and populate the pages and/or the other way around, design the pages to give them an acceptably attractive look, optimize the site for Search engines, and collect relevant  information from visitors for analysis or other purposes.  These are skills I acquired over the years and that may be useful to someone.

2. I love it!

   Usually I refer to it as “web programming”. That is, designing and maintaining applications that interact to make websites more interesting. This may be in server-side languages such as PHP or ASP, or client side in Java, javascipt or any other. I almost don’t play with “basic html” anymore because I am more interested in generating it dynamically.

3. Flexibility.

   One other reason I am so sold to web design and web development  is the flexibility to do things as they make sense. So, in the morning if I am not pretty sure about a script A that requires a little more thinking I can do graphics or the other way around. I can work from 7Am to 7 pm or 2 Am to 11 Am. This enhances my creativity and relieves a lot of pressure and stress off my shoulders. I love web design as a job!

4. IT’S AN ART

   Of course it is! From my early childhood I loved drawing, singing and “making things”.  I have an artistically creative mind  I did not get to develop fully because I focused more on learning Science and mathematics.  When I am designing, I let my mind wonder, explore, experiment. I change things around, add, remove, join,.. It allows me to unleash the artist in me, not necessarily in the traditional sense of the word, and that’s what I love about it.

I have a few other reasons I choose to bring my web design skills out, but I will limit myself to letting you explore the site. If you have any question, use the contact me page and let me know. I will answer all the questions personally as accurately as possible.