Brian's Web Design & Development

About Me

I've always been an artist. I started drawing things when I was about 8. I got a pretty nice collection of art supplies for Christmas, and liked copying cartoons and drawing pictures of my toys. A little later I started drawing with technical pens. They were the type of pens that you have to fill with ink and clean at the end of the day. I'd use these on bristol, and while I would design some things in color, most of my art was black and white.

In high school I found that I really liked ceramics. I was never very good using a pottery wheel, but loved building with clay, carving designs into the clay, and wondering if what I was making would survive the kiln. In college I took more ceramics classes, but since the ciriculum was focused on the wheel, I decided ceramics wasn't for me.

I took other art classes in college. Not really because I thought I'd grow up to be an artist, but because I just didn't really know what I wanted to do yet. I enjoyed doing scratch art, and got to work a lot with my beloved colored pencils. I felt like I could draw anything, and for me that was a problem. I got bored with art. It really wasn't a challenge anymore.

Fast forward to 2010, and here I am being an artist again. This time it's digital art. My canvas is a computer screen, and my colored pencils are replaced with Photoshop and Illustrator. These are very challenging to learn, and the world of web design and development is so dynamic, there's always something to learn, and a new challenge to face. It's perfect for me.

My Web Design & Development Related Skills

• Server-side scripting with PHP versions 4 & 5
  • Custom Procedural & OOP applications
  • CodeIgniter framework applications
  • Kohana framework applications
• Web database applications utilizing MySQL
• Client-side JavaScript with DOM interaction
  • jQuery and the jQuery user interface
  • Standard (non-framework) applications
• HTML - The basic language of web design.
• XHTML - A more structured and cleaner version of HTML.
• Feed generation and parsing of XML
• CSS - Styling applied to HTML/XHTML.
• Apache - URL rewriting, access control, and redirects
• Regular expressions
• Bash Terminal & DOS command line
• Windows, Ubuntu (Linux), & Mac Operating Systems
• Image editing and design with Adobe Photoshop
• Vector artwork design with Adobe Illustrator

Education

San Pasqual High School

3300 Bear Valley Parkway
Escondido, CA 92025
Graduated with diploma in June 1990

Palomar College

1140 West Mission Road
San Marcos, CA 92069
AA General Education, August 2000

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