I blew what little I had on a fine arts education until there was none left. I dropped out. Thirty-some years later, it is more and more obvious to me that it is not what you know and can do that counts, but how well you compete in BS-ing.
After a friend gave me an old computer, I became a cyberjunky and learned HTML. Built my first website with Notepad. A lot of code and a few motherboards have gone by since those first months. Most of my friends who entered the Computer Age long before I did can't understand what I'm talking about any more.
My philosophy of website design is content first. Why don't I have lots of things that move, change, glow, make music, force you to scroll around and read through a tiny hole in the page and otherwise act obnoxious? Read that last word.
A website usually exists for a purpose. This one is here to deliver information. I believe that a page should be readable and work in any browser at any resolution. This is called "liquid style" because the page is able to flow and fill any container (window).
I have always used a text editor to build pages. Expensive tools do not cure fools-some of the worst websites in the world are made with FrontPage.
