Born in Clearfield, lived and grew up in Beech Creek, Mill Hall and Lock Haven. I'm 28 years old and I have two older sisters. I currently work as customer service representative for Brodart Company in Newberry. My husband and I live in Mill Hall with our two cats, puppy and chinchilla.
My interest in HTML and websites started when I was about 13, Geocities offered free web hosting and page support so I wanted to make my own website(s). I was shown a bit of the basics by the (then) Ross Library's Children's Librarian and I quickly began looking at the way other pages were built, deconstructing them and learning how all the bits work and worked together. I had at one point, a Lola Bunny fan page, a Animorphs fan and upcoming news page, and I had another page that was sorta just about me and the other webpages that I liked and it linked to them and the pages I had created. Unfortunately I did not backup or save these and so when Geocities stopped supporting the old free hosting I lost the pages and the work I had done.
The reason I am now currently going for my BIM bachelors is because I have always enjoyed working and designing websites and all the images and layout that goes into them. This is actually my second time enrolling to Penn College, the first time was for an associates in Advertising Art. This is currently my second semester into this degree.
My hope with this degree is to find employment working on designing, maintaining and producing web pages. The company I currently work for actually has a position open for a web developer that I applied for in the hopes of getting my foot in door.
As far as uses for the skills I am knocking the rust off of and building on, I can see several. I will be competent in creating and managing web pages, making them both functional, attractive to look at and intuitive to use. This last part I will work very hard on as it one of my biggest pet peeves and there are several parts of my companies shopping site that bug me greatly. Perks of having all the aforementioned skills is that I am more hirable as I can do all the "Web page stuff" for whichever company I get hired by. This makes me more likely to find employment and to earn a bit more than someone who only knows coding, or who only knows design. I also simply enjoy being well rounded in my knowledge. I enjoying building a site from the ground up and then looking at the completed project and being happy that "I made that".