Kilkennyweb.com joins the blogosphere

Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Kilkennyweb.com blog. This post is sort of an "introduction" or "about me" article.

I am a web designer and developer with 10 years of experience. In the mid-90s, I spent a great deal of my time learning HTML codes and designing web sites for the pure enjoyment of it. I would pick any topic that interested me and design a web site. I spent a lot of my days on geocities.com and other free sites designing web sites just because that's what I loved doing.

Three years later, I attended a local university, taking core classes that were offered without deciding on any specific major. However, there were often weekend, 1 credit, seminar classes geared towards the internet, computers, and Web Design & Development. I would take as many of those classes as I possibly could!

Two years later, after moving, I decided to enroll in an Associate Degree Program at my local community college. I picked "Web Technologies" as my major, while simultaneously earning a Certificate in Web Design & Development.

While enrolled at the community college, I joined up with the Honors Program and Leadership Development Program. There, I was able to expand my knowledge and work-skills through volunteer work and internships. I completed web design and development internships with non-profit organizations such as Earthwatch Institute and The New England Seacoast Institute, and even did some low-cost designing for musicians.

After college, I continued volunteering to maintain the NESI : New England Seacost Institute web site (at the time that this article was written, the web site and the organization were gearing up for a relaunch). I also began my own freelance web design and development business from my home, doing a few jobs here and there from the comfort of my own home computer.

After the birth of our first child, I let my passion fall by the wayside as my time had become limited. However, now that my children are getting older and I have a little bit more time on my hands, I am back and ready to get back to it!

My goals right now are to provide information to aspiring web designers, whether they choose this as a career or simply want to be able to design their own web sites. I also want to focus on designing my own web sites for personal and commercial purposes, while educating others on how to do this as well. My future goals is to get back into being a professional web designer & developer, designing sites for clients and their businesses and non-profit organizations.

Stay tuned! I plan on updating this blog and its corresponding web site, Kilkennyweb.com, frequently. If there's anything you want to know about web design and development, visit my web site and read more or contact me!