What Do You Do?

September 23, 2004 | View Comments (135) | Category: Our Thoughts

Summary: Everyone knows what I do, but I have no idea what you do. So why don't you let me know.

I have been writing for over a year and even though I talk to many of you outside of this website I still have no idea what you do. Are all of you web designers? Managers? Students? I have no idea. I don't think it's right for me to assume that everyone here is a designer because there could be an accountant out there who likes to design on the side.

So if you don't mind could you tell me what you do just so I have a better idea of who reads this site. It also helps for when I see someone post a comment I can say &dlquo;oh that is the janitor guy talking” or something like that. You can write anonymously if you want. I don't care. I just want to hear what everyone does.

What this also will help me do is see if I can broaden the range of topics around here. If everyone is a designer then obviously sticking with design topics would be best, but if we have project managers, programmers, whatever then I can get back into those topics a little bit more.

I will start first I guess. I run a network of sites. Some have friends on them that help me out, others are solely run by me. I don't have a title. I am a professional Scrivs. I am also a partner in a communications firm called Business Logs with two of the brightest individuals that I have ever come across.

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#1

I'm a book publisher. It's a family run business that works with newspapers all over the U.S. We primarily publish pictorial history books, but lately have gone on to do books for the Green Bay Packers, 9/11, battleship U.S.S. New Jersey, and so on. On the side, I design websites. Mostly for fun and not for profit.

I lurk a lot here, great resource. I read it most for design topics.

Chris Fenison (http://www.chrisfenison.com)

#2

Website creator here.

Dale (http://www.dalecruse.com)

#3

Husband, Father, Freelance Web/Print/Icon Designer, procrastinator - in that order.

Jon Hicks (http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/)

#4

I'm a student at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, CO. Go Bears and all that jazz. It's my first year in the graphic design program and second year in college.

On top of that, I work in sales at the local computer reseller, but tend to get my hands on a lot of print and (recently) web design work there. In my free time, I sit in Illustrator mocking up ideas for various things that I may some day get around to completing.

Brian Rose (http://www.heimidal.net)

#5

I'm a software engineer working primarily in Java with a strong preference for user interface work, particularly web applications. I really like web standards, since as a programmer, I like my code to be as clean and minimal as possible.

I wish I had the skills of a designer. I like to think I have some good instincts as far as design goes, but I have no training and little practice. I'm very good at implementing other people's designs, I just wish I could come up with good ones myself.

Jennifer Grucza (http://jennifergrucza.com)

#6

I'm a piss-poor Web designer---okay with arch, not so okay with style---but hell, I'm an aerospace engineer, so I can say with confidence, "You don't have to be a rocket scientist to design Web pages."

Geof (http://gfmorris.net/)

#7

“- Hi! I'm marko and i'm alc... i mean weboholic!”

No, seriously, by trade i'm kinesiologyst (fitness trainer and aerobics instructor in particular), but i'm involved in creative stuff since i designed t-shirt logo for my class back in primary school when i was 13. Or was it when i was 14?

BTW, thx for bringing me 6000+ hits last night ;)

marko (http://maratz.com/blog/)

#8

I'm a student from Germany who calls himself web designer.

Julian

#9

Work at a photo processing place... I am designing/programming a web site for the company, I do photo retouching/restoration, design all the marketing materials, handle all of the wide-format printing, and a few other things.

Derek (http://www.onethreeone.com/blog/)

#10

I do the web design thing, and do a little bit of web development here and there too.

Olly Hodgson (http://planetgnarly.com)

#11

I'm the VP, Product Management, for Medscape, the leading website for healthcare professionals and part of WebMD Corp.

That means I spend my time making Medscape better for our users and figuring out how to get from where we are to where we're going.

Steve (http://hoffman.blogs.com)

#12

I'm fresh out of college designing websites for photographers. I came across this site because I'm doing tons of research, trying to get away from tables as much as possible... It's very slow going.

rufus

#13

I'm a partner in a small web development group.

My role is to talk about technical issues with non-technical folks... educate and evangelize about best practices (I do that a lot, but then we ALL do, I suspect)... strategize about site organization, content, workflow, ROI and such... and make sure things move along during the course of project.

I'm no artist (I draw bad stick people) or programmer, though I understand enough about programming to be ver-r-r-y dangerous (or so our guys tell me).

M. (http://www.bold-ibs.com)

#14

I'm an Information Architect and Interface Designer.

Chris Moritz (http://www.campbell-ewald.com/)

#15

I run my own fledgling web design and development company in the UK, having left a *totally* different job to do it. I'm lucky to have friends with really specialised skills who can help me out too and we're certainly busy - I love it. I've been influenced and inspired by many of the folks who pop in here on a regular basis, yourself included Scrivs. Thank you :)

Dave Foy (http://www.definitiondesign.com)

#16

Officially, I am a "web developer" for a medium-sized non-profit based in Washington, D.C. I do both front-end/UI work and server-side coding.

seth (http://www.sethgreen.net/display_urls_when_printing/)

#17

I'm a webdeveloper, primarily on stuff that regards php, mysql, (x)html and css.
I'm currently running my own company, which specializes in optimizing user interfaces on existing sites.

Furthermore, I work as an accountant in an electrical company, but the job I love the most, is the job as bartender i Aarhus (Denmark)

Michael

#18

Father of multiple unknown bastard children.

Mike D. (http://www.mikeindustries.com)

#19

I generally call myself a "web developer." I write code and do all the other technical stuff for my company's web site, but the visual design comes from someone else.

So I'm interested in code and database stuff because it's what I do, and interested in design stuff and marketing stuff, etc. because I want to learn.

Robert

#20

a web developer who finds himself working for one print/web agency or another. Currently for www.fuelindustries.com

Jonathan Snook (http:///jonathan/)

#21

I am a marketing student at Oklahoma State University.

I work in the OSU Student Union marketing department.

I have a small design studio on the side where people pay me to make stuff.

I'm one busy mofo.

Jeff Clark (http://www.vacantcanvas.com)

#22

My title at work is a "Print & New Media Specialist."

Which means I do graphic design for web and print. But not "just" graphic design. I do front-end web development as well, and, er, anything they ask me to do really--from branding (i did their brand guidelines) to direct mail campaigns to redesigning an entire website top to bottom from IA and actual visual designing to front-end coding and researching. Etc. etc.

I tinker in Flash at times (but I'm not really fond of it or any good, really, haha).

I also freelance on the side. For both print and web. Wheeee!

Lea (http://xox.lealea.net/01/)

#23

I'm an artist, currently earning a living as a web developer. I previously did more design & production work at my last job, now I am doing server-side scripting and interface design for content management systems. I also do freelance design work (web & print) to keep myself same.

Oh, I am also a professional 'lurker', as I always read these sights and never post (til now)!

Tom Hickey (http://www.depthofperception.com/)

#24

Currently, I am employed as a Sr. Multimedia Developer in the E-Learning division of an internationally-based financial services company.

I’m also the Creative Director and Co-Founder for a small creative agency, working with about a dozen or so small businesses and non-profits on web marketing projects.

My background encompasses graphic design, web / computer-based development & programming, 3d modeling and animation, and interactive graphic design.

Mark (http://www.lightpierce.com/ltshdw)

#25

Freelance web designer/programmer, student, heavy drinker, drug dealer, ho magnet, and professional smart ass.

I don't have a "real job" that I get up and go to, because personally, I found that I make more money sitting on my ass. Plus the last "real job" I had was so terrible that I felt the need to hide from the real morons (Best Buy customers) for a long, long time.

Ryan Latham (http://www.unmatchedstyle.com)

#26

I devise plans for world domination on an almost daily basis.

In my spare time I creat custom CMSs and other data-driven features for web sites using ColdFusion and a foundation of modern web standards and quality code. At least, that's what I get paid for.

Seth Thomas Rasmussen (http://sethrasmussen.com/)

#27

I'm a Court Administrator for the county's Family Court. Yuk! (Yes, that means I get the 'my ex won't let me see my kids' kind of calls.) Bet you didn't see that one coming.

I am definetly not a designer. I like to think I have an apreciation for good design and do a little on the side, although my strong(er?) point would be coding. Maybe someday, I'll actually get paid for some work I do.

waylman (http://achinghead.com)

#28

A 'trying-to-make-it' web designer.

Chugs (http://chugsdesigns.com)

#29

Graphic designer trying to land a full-time web job involving some PHP.

TikTokk

#30

I'm a software engineer who works mainly with VB/SQL Server. I've been reading a TON about web design for probably the last 6 months and spending as much of my free time developing my skills as possible. I'm attempting to hone my skills enough to eventually go into web design/development for a living, but that's quite a ways off still.

Brian Behrend (http://www.brianbehrend.com/)

#31

Husband(going on 2 months), Web developer (thats my official work title) for a company in Central Indiana. I consider myself more on the design side, but working my way into programming skills alot better.

I guess you could say I am a temporary student. My work is paying a part of the bill for me to take a class on Programming concepts.

so there you go, web developer :)

Bryan (http://www.juicedthoughts.com)

#32

I do computer games, like for instance Hitman.

Michael (http://binarybonsai.com)

#33

Interesting mix so far...

Scrivs (http://9rules.com/)

#34

I'm a Digital Specialist Director (totally made up title as far as I'm concerned) for a museum Design firm http://www.academystudios.com (working on a redesign, just got them off coldfusion so bear with me!) where I oversee and help out with the advanced:
- High end Print Design using InDesign/Quark, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, 3D studio Pro, Vectorworks, and some minor programs; as well as design studies and techniques
- High end mechanical and prepress developement
- color theory, science, color management and correction
- Digital Printing (Roland Hi-Fi, HP 5500, Inca, Scitex)
- XHTML/CSS/PHP and Flash design for museum Kiosks and museum websites
- help out with the Mac OS X IT when needed

For freelance I am the Creative Director for my own Dotfive company, with fellower print and web designers, and I do freelance editorial and fiction/non-fiction writing on the side (political and not so political).

So a print designer majority background, with a web design standards love.

Brady J. Frey (http://www.dotfive.com)

#35

Husband, Father, Web Designer, GGTK.

http://www.jeremyflint.com

Jeremy Flint (http://www.jeremyflint.com)

#36

I'm a technical writer who'd rather be doing something else, but would settle for doing the same thing for somebody else.

http://www.track27.com

Jeff (http://www.track27.com)

#37

I'm a Nigerian business man who has overseas individuals assist me in transferring large amounts of money.

No seriously. B.S. in computer science that led me to become a site developer/engineer but now making the transition to information architect with an obsessive compulsive disorder regarding usability. And most recently, one of the individuals behind YourTotalSite.com.

Garrett (http://www.yourtotalsite.com)

#38

Senior in graphic design at Iowa State University, work, I work for an academic IT department doing web graphic/web design.

Ben Lumpkin

#39

Husband, father, son, evil genius and designer (both for the web and print). All of that in no particular order.

kartooner (http://www.kartooner.com)

#40

I come for the design oriented discussions.

As for what I do:
A student with 7 years of experience in (x)html, css with basic to intermediate JavaScript and PHP knowledge. Experienced CMS integrator (that includes multiple weblog systems). Known to try and make sites as light as possible. Looking to improve photoshop and design skills.

Currently Creative Director of gameover.com. (If the design and/or code sucks on launch - blame me)

After that's online however, I'm looking into getting a design site and/or weblog up and running. Having just a portfolio seems a bit lacking today the day.

Also, I'm still wondering when people realise proper (front-end) coding is more than knowing how to put a p in a div and applying a :hover, and that proper design has very little to do with your photoshop skills.

Oh well.

AkaXakA (http://akaxaka.gameover.com)

#41

web designer

Colin C

#42

My background is in construction, engineering, transport, mining, property, interior design, retail, healthcare and education. My latest position was in the Customer Service sector. In other words I've had lots of mainly unskilled crap jobs all my life but returned to education and got a degree in Communication and Information Media (Unbelievably, I got a first too :) Then I fluked my way into one great 3-month contract on a helpdesk. This was so cushy and well-paid that it made me want more of the same but my background and age has made it impossible to get another job. I am still very interested in communication and also like messing about with web design so that's why I visit this site.

Peter 01010 (http://www.01010.org/)

#43

Just finished a degree in Art History and Writing, I am currently a small-time web designer looking to go back to school and learn graphic design. I am Canadian, too.

Jeff Werner (http://jeffwerner.ca)

#44

> Also, I'm still wondering when people realise proper (front-end) coding is more than knowing how to put a p in a div and applying a :hover, and that proper design has very little to do with your photoshop skills.

Where did that come from?

Brady J. Frey (http://www.dotfive.com)

#45

Custom motorcycle builder.
Web coder for want of a better term, my wife does most of the design work.
Drinker.
Irish-English-Cheesehead.
(I am currently teaching British English to North-Central Wisconsin!)

Not necessarily in that order!

Adrian Rinehart-Balfe (http://www.boogenstein.com/)

#46

freelance web and print designer. photographer. co-creator of a hosted blogging system for photographers - Expressions.

i still have a lot to learn about it all though, so i'm always a student.

lor (http://www.apparentlynothing.com)

#47

I do freeland web design in my spare time and I'm currently employed full time as an adult reference librarian. It certainly is interesting seeing how the public uses the web at my library (oh, I could tell you stories...).

My master plan is to someday do web work full time -- either one my own or employed in firm of some type.

JonathanB

#48

Apparently, I am a bright individual.

Matthew Oliphant (http://businesslogs.com)

#49

Husband, Father, Freelance Web/Print/Icon Designer, procrastinator - in that order.

Jon Hicks you are the worst procrastinator on the planet. Look at all of the stuff you accomplish before you start procrastinating!

back on topic...

I am a programmer/developer/designer of web based applications for a New York State agency. Mostly everything I do is for internal use only so I can't share it with you and it usually doesn't look all that fancy anyway.

Jason

#50

Web developer and partner within a Romanian team.

Alex Bighea (http://www.kissmedia.ro)

#51

Programmer: currently developing web applications using Perl, PHP, C. I'm dabbling with Python and Java on the side.

Desperately waiting for Perl 6 to be finished so that this InterWebNet thingy can be completely revolutionised.

I'm also an occasional SysAdmin, maintaining a complex network for my company.

I've built a small Linux cluster (6 node) which I manage "just for fun".

I am always experimenting with hardware and software.

And the best bit? I get paid for doing this shit! :-)

Jonathan M. Hollin (http://blog.urbanmainframe.com/)

#52

I'm a high school student, planning on going into a computer science/engineering program. This web design stuff is an interesting side-project of mine - but I'm more interested in the technology and techniques than the design part.

Calvin Walton

#53

What do you do?

I do stuff. Sometimes.

Eris (http://www.erisfree.com)

#54

Stuff rocks.

I'm a Nigerian business man who has overseas individuals assist me in transferring large amounts of money.

Ahahahah...

Seth Thomas Rasmussen (http://sethrasmussen.com/)

#55

I'm the internet development manager for a small bank in the UK, and freelance web design/development/PHP stuff on the side.

Matthew Pennell (http://www.thewatchmakerproject.com/)

#56

My title is "Web Marketing Developer" as of next week. Basically I run the company's public site and help out on marketing campaigns as much as I can as it relates to the Web. The company I'm going to be working for has an intranet and a hosted application that's web-based, but that's run by the IT department (which I'm kinda happy not to be a part of). I need to know HTML, CSS, Javascript, JSP, and a thing or two about SEO, advertising, and mailing lists. It's not what I'm used to (I've been a strictly web developer/programmer type in the past) but it should be fun.

Vinnie Garcia (http://blog.vinniegarcia.com)

#57

I'm the #2 (out of 3!) web developer for a multibillion dollar bank holding company (which sounds impressive til you realize that almost all banks bigger than 'hometown' size are multi-billion dollar. But we are fairly big... 60+ branches). I work on our public website occasionally, but that's a tiny piece of the job... I mostly work on internal web applications and our intranet systems. I code in ColdFusion and (reluctantly) JSP and XSL. Stuff ranges from basic database CrUD to interfacing with IBM mainframe. Outside the office, I have a small freelance design/development company and work mostly with PHP... I do some volunteer stuff... and I run a half dozen or so personal sites for friends, and a fairly large and active (at least, considernig it's invitation-only) creative writing forum.
I'll second jonathon (#51)... the best part is getting paid for doing something you enjoy.

JC (http://thelionsweb.com/weblog)

#58

I have a love/hate relationship with web design and the other web professionals...

El Capitan (http://www.capitalrmedia.com)

#59

I work at Dairy Queen on while attending my local highschool.

Andrew (http://kempt.org)

#60

The high school emo kid, debate-club-joining, web designer.

Benjamin (http://www.bluism.com)

#61

I'm a just-retired computer science professor who's occupying his time nowadays by learning some web design (hey, my personal site is now CSS-styled valid XHTML) and playing ragtime piano. I've also just discovered the blogosphere as delivered by the miracle of RSS — man, what a time sink!

John R. (http://jremmers.org)

#62

I'm a Web Producer / Analyst and writer. Although everyone says they're a writer nowadays - but I've written a bad sci-fi novel to prove it :-)

Scrivs, I don't think I've ever read here how you make a living - are you a web design consultant? Or are you actually making enough money out of your network to survive? Just curious...

Richard MacManus (http://www.readwriteweb.com)

#63

Journalism student, and owner of a small business that designs and develops web sites and applications for business, non-profit, and educational institutions.

John Zeratsky (http://johnzeratsky.com)

#64

i am the "production manager" at a multimedia company. i write for/on forevergeek and various other websites sometimes. i make a lot of crafts and i still wish i was in the internet.

explode (http://vortex.net.nz)

#65

Internet project manager + PHP programmer/developer + SEO expert + valid XHTML/CSS coder and webstandards supporter

dusoft (http://www.ambience.sk/)

#66

Father of 3, husband of 1, accessibility guy, web developer guy, blogger of assorted topics, who isn't much of a designer but is always trying to get better, while running my own company, not getting much sleep...

feather (http://boxofchocolates.ca)

#67

Web developer (PHP, ASP, Cold Fusion - proficient in all), XHTML/CSS advocate, graphic designer (photoshop/illustrator) on the side.

Do some photography and 3d stuff, writing & poetry, guitar, bass, drums & songwriting too.

Jason Berry

#68

I design and develop real estate management software for a company in Tokyo-to, Japan. More specifically I have been, with two others, moving an MS Access-based solution to a web application one (using PHP, HTML, CSS, Java, etc). Oh and I live in Oklahoma. That's my night job (work the same hours as the home office).

During the day I can often be found working as a teacher's aid in special education classrooms. Something close to my heart as my step-daughter has Downs Syndrome.

Jesse Wilson (http://www.jessewilson.net/)

#69

I'm studying a degree in computing atm, which focuses on assembly/c++ programming and general software development/networking. I'm torn between either doing an MSC in Software engineering or Internet Applications development, though i'll probably go the software engineering route as its far more challenging.

I've been doing web site development (PHP, CF, XML, XSL, XHTML, CSS blah blah) and design (Photoshop, illustrator blah) for numerous years as a freelancer, working on programming, design and pretty much everything else.

Although I spend a lot of my time programming, I actually also have a background in art and languages (Turkish, Gaelic, English), which is helpful for design things. So when i'm not interacting with a microprocessor, fiddling around with sockets and shifting bits, you can usually find me drawing.

I'm also engaged and currently looking for a new job!

Robert Lofthouse (http://www.ghxdesign.com)

#70

Web designer, project manager, sales guy

Chris

#71

I'm a web programming specialist (the only one!) for a private, liberal arts college.

Nicole (http://nicoleswan.com)

#72

elearning developer for a large telco. XHTML, CSS, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, lotsa Flash, RoboDemo, PhotoPaint. Lotsa editing and rewriting content for the online training environment (Intranet). Love it!

Wendy

#73

Father to Kathryn, the Wonder Baby, husband, and my company's Chief Cook and Bottle Washer.

Mike (http://prolumina.com/~mlarocque/)

#74

I used to be a web designer (www.subjetivo.com) now I only run my own website (www.moiblog.com) and I'm working for Hewllet-Packard at the imaging and printing group in Mexico.

Moises Kirsch (http://www.moiblog.com)

#75

Son, student, bank teller, web developer and human being.

Rick Yribe (http://anythingapplies.com)

#76

I write productivity applications in VB/ASP for a health insurance company. I am not a web designer. At all.

I can verify that kartooner is an evil genius.

Greg (http://www.secondnegative.com)

#77

IA and usability gal. Thinks too much, reads too much...

Donna Maurer (http://maadmob.net/donna/blog/)

#78

Programmer, designer, film buff, web addict (not necesarily in that order).

mediamelt (http://www.filmrot.com)

#79

I'm a freelance web/graphic/print/pretty much everything designer. I'm jsut starting out. I've got a small number of loyal clients that keep me busy constantly now, which is really nice. I don't make huge bucks, but I love what I do and make enough to pay the bills and that's all I need.

I'm also a sports enthusiast and have a wonderful girlfriend of 3.5 years who stands behind everything I do, even when it meant not having a whole lot of money when I was trying to get myself established as a freelance designer.

Jeff Smith (http://www.jeffsmithdesigns.com)

#80

I'm a junior software engineer. (>_<) Still unemployed after graduation.
I'm a hockey fan. (;_;) no hockey this season.
I'm a Montreal Expos fan. (@_@) darn strike of '94!
I'm a gamer. (^_^)V

Zelnox

#81

*sigh* Why is this my first comment here?

I'm a student at the University of Illinois, where I am studying business. I work part time as an information technology coordinator for a local non-profit organization. In my free time, I do web development projects, including Open Bulletin Board.

Yeah, I'm that guy.

Stu Schaff (http://www.devsyn.com)

#82

Official paid job - Web Designer of UK based Governnment related websites.

Blair Millen (http://theletter.co.uk)

#83

Buddhist. Pragmatist. Minimalist.

Web Developer/Designer (XHTML/XML/CSS/PHP/MySQL).

I also enjoy prodding badgers with wooden spoons at the weekend.

Dysfunksional Monkey (http://dysfunksion.co.uk/)

#84

Student, occasional web developer. General Geek :)

Ross Hill (http://rosshill.pacesec.biz)

#85

I am a website developer, maintaining a web application for a small business. Well, I am actually the only tech head in the company so I pretty much do everything that's techy. On the side I do a bit of webdesign, nothing fancy, and sadly noone is throwing gazillions of dollars at me for it yet.

Jakob S (http://mentalized.net)

#86

Student, straggler, blogger, web design enthusiast.

Yuan Qing (http://yuanqing.blogspot.com/)

#87

Reasearch Chemist, genetically engineering bacteria to make new drugs. Web design hobbiest

Chris (http://chris.lineages.co.uk)

#88

I'm a web designer for the Open University in the UK. I'm not the only one though and can't be blamed for our current homepage!

Guy Carberry (http://www.guyweb.co.uk)

#89

I like to call myself a "do man", just because i do everithing that it takes to get the job done.

Webdesign, webdevelopment, user interface, java programmer, css all that boring stuff

For other side i'm a student, a in next week a husband too.

Jose Silva (http://josesilva.portaltm.com)

#90

Husband, engineer , web designer , web programmer , web porn designer , porn photographer!

GaBuBu (http://www.nv30.com)

#91

communications manager, web designer, blogger, father

at work I'm known for two things - I hate both of them equally:

1) slide boy - powerpoint expert basically ...

2) he makes things look pretty - sure i do, but there's more to it than that ...

the best thing I "do" is being a dad ... I'd like to think I'm better than most at that.

chuck (http://telerana.f2o.org)

#92

Web Manager for a University by day . .
Freelancer and blogger by night . .
Daddy during the evenings and at weekends.

Paul (http://www.alifeinprogress.com)

#93

User Interface Designer in NYC for Financial Company... starting them on the path of elightenment (that is Web Standards). Believe it or not they are gung ho about it. Hubby, mtn biker, and martial artist.

JohnnyLab (http://www.flopidesign.com)

#94

By day I'm a Web Software Engineer working mostly with Java and PL/SQL. I help develop online sales and marketing tools used on my company's website and by our internal sales people.

In my spare time I do some freelance web work and take care of the yard.

I'm always a husband and soon to be a daddy!

Joe (http://www.joeskitchen.com/chile)

#95

Winner of the 'One Of These Things (Is Not Like The Others)' Sesame Street Song Award (self-awarded)

Sr. Business Analyst & Controller - Sony

me (http://wbmny.com)

#96

Hello from Belgium ;-)

I'm a project manager, mainly for web intranet/extranet systems for European Organisations (European Commission, European Parliament, ...)

Fred (http://www.trasys.be)

#97

36 year old father of two brilliant boys (10 & 4); married 14 years to a beautiful woman; love to play disc golf, the piano, and foosball.

Former Marine, turned college student, turned graphic designer, turned print art director, turned web art director, turned technical design director at Wachovia, living in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Brian Williams (http://www.ploughdeep.com)

#98

I'm a full time worker - WebTech as it's called. I assist and train students and faculty for online courses at Washburn University. I'm also a father, husband, student( web developing), slacker, gamer, and someone who likes to think they have time to be a web designer.
more info at my site.

Dustin Fluke (http://www.dustinfluke.com)

#99

High-school student with a big head.

Jarek Piórkowski (http://unt.qviri.net/)

#100

I'll throw myself in...

I unsucessfully design websites. I used to sell counterfeit microsoft software online, but now I spend my time trying to convince Gramma Moses that she needs to pay me $50 to do a site revamp for her grandaughters blog. It's like I'm a crack fiend, but for food.

OK, not quite that bad, but you get the drift.

Manzell B (http://www.reaxion.org)

#101

High school student, job-less... I'm going to be tutoring soon though ($15 an hour and no taxes/social security ain't bad for something that I love doing).

I've designed and coded two websites so far: Windbags Racing League and GTPlanet.net Insider (I didn't totally design the Insider, but I did write the code for it.)

Sage

#102

Webdesigner and WWW-watcher.

Percept (http://percept.be)

#103

Managing director of my own company. Information architecture, web design, electronic publishing.

Ben (http://www.aracane.ch)

#104

I'm a designer/programmer/database admin/etc. and consult in relevant areas of the industry while studying comp sci full time.

Kevin Francis (http://denial.loose-screws.com/)

#105

university student. self-taught (due to crap university) webhead.

t (http://www.roseability.com/)

#106

Master web craftsman for Beg Finsoft, Belgrade, Serbia.
Paper sketch artist, real-time strategy player.

Aleksandar (http://www.aplus.co.yu/)

#107

Graphic Design student. Pretends to do well with web design. :)

Courtney

#108

I'm a lurker, as I've never commented before although I occasionally drop by to read.

Oh. You mean what do I do. Righto. I'm serving a contract of servitude to the fiendish powers in exchange for a non-binding option to compete for employment in intellectual property law at the end of my servitude. In other words, I'm a law student who should be studying harder and not playing around with web design. :-)

Lashlar (http://www.whisperingwords.net)

#109

I am a web-developer from the southern tip of Africa.

As Jen said "I like to think I have some good instincts as far as design goes, but I have no training and little practice. I'm very good at implementing other people's designs, I just wish I could come up with good ones myself." That pretty much sums my design "skills" up.

Paul Watson (http://stormfront.typepad.com/)

#110

Student, reading marketing and economics.

Web design on the side, have been in my own mind in 3-4 years, have been professionally for maybe ½-2 year :)

Working in small webdesign business as the lone designer, and with freelance clients.

I also like potatoes.

Brian Andersen (http://www.brian-andersen.dk)

#111

I drag heavy things around cold places.

Ben Saunders (http://www.bensaunders.com)

#112

I'm the Communications Director of Virginia21, a political org. i helped start a year ago. I end up doing all of our graphics work because we're a two-person operation and I wouldn't trust our Exec. Director within 2 miles of Paint Shop Pro. ;-)

Dave Solimini (http://www.virginia21.org)

#113

I'm 15, still in school :)

David House (http://xmouse.ithium.net)

#114

29 and three quarters year old webjunkie. Degree in Multimedia Systems. Worked on developing open source VLEs for the FE market for two years and then started out on my own. Still chasing that big contract. Got some great ideas, but feeding myself and paying the man takes up all those precious million dollar idea development hours!

xhtml/css/LAMP.

Will Masters (http://www.willmasters.com)

#115

Web Designer

Scott (http://www.scottmaira.com)

#116

I'm an Assistant Developer for a marketing firm, but mostly I say I'm a web designer. I have a BFA degree in Multimedia and Web Design. Misc: Wife, one-day-will-be-mother, lover of spanish rock music, supporter of web standards. Mostly I refuse to grow up :p

Zulema (http://blog.zoblue.com/)

#117

Jon - your problem is that you keep putting off the procrastination.

Me - father, husband, chef, canine hospice-worker, technology consultant, database administrator, token liberal, and general smart-ass.

igner

#118

I run a busy little web development company. Currently relearning how to do things properly (xhtml, css blah).

Also moving more into print / graphic design work which is scary (I know naff all about it) but exciting at the same time

GeoffC (http://www.orionesque.com)

#119

26 year old part-time bartender and full-time Web Development student. I'll be done in Sept 2005.

Greg

#120

Web professional is what I've started calling myself since hearing about it from Keith. If I had to choose between designer and developer, it would have to be developer.

Anyway, I focus on web standards, accessibility, and usability.

Roger Johansson (http://www.456bereastreet.com)

#121

Student with plans to enter web development.

Ree (http://msree.cjb.net/)

#122

I used to be a fish farmer here in Greece, but now I design websites, or try to at least.

Phoat (http://phoat.com)

#123

I'm a middle-aged white woman who jumped off a cliff and left her high-powered corporate-ish job a few months ago and is now trying to put together a cool website for her new consulting firm. When I'm not figuring out what on earth I'm doing, I paint, play the bagpipe and violin (not at the same time, thank god), read all kinds of history, and drink single malt whisky.

Unknown White Woman

#124

This is fun to read.

Mom to two-year old, wife, one-time television producer/freelance-writer turned work-at-home content producer/manager for video, print and web.

foster

#125

Developer, designer, photographer and any other thing that takes my fancy :)

Amit Karmakar (http://www.karmakars.com)

#126

:)

cool... :)

I'm a interface designer and... in my free time I'm helping disableb people to understand (read and write) the web.

(excuse my self for my english)

Kosta (http://hb.cult.bg/)

#127

I am a Web Developer/Programmer and Sometimes a Designer at www.netring.co.uk. My Job Title is: Web Expert!

My job requires that I can code XHTML/CSS for front-end. Sometimes I implement other people's graphic design, other times I do my own. I also do back end programming; ASP.net using VB.net as my language of choice (for now - c# soon!). I also have to use MySQL and SQL Server.

Basically I have to do a lot of what sometimes takes more than one person. But I love my Job.

Phil Baines (http:///blog)

#128

bug note: your site didn't keep my website address after the preview.

Phil Baines (http://www.wubbleyew.com/blog)

#129

Here I am.

I do work as a microsoft .net based application developer(all intranet web apps).

I have built quite a few websites for myself and I take pleasure in doing so.

Sadish (http://www.wpthemes.info)

#130

old guy who left high paying job managing s/w projects to work from home... started learning web design & development a year ago. now that's what I do - in san luis obispo, ca.

richard (http://www.slopages.com)

#131

spanish intranet / extranet designer here !

di�dac (http://www.380volts.com)

#132

(late, late, late to answer... but I've got the nicest excuse in the world: we were gifted with a little baby girl in the end of August -- now I'm catching up)

My job title is "technical manager". I'm supposed to supervise two huge web servers (amounting to around 50 web sites all in all) on a big intranet, but actually I do more than that: mainly what I do is (x)HTML, Javascript, PHP and all you can create with it (RSS, newsletters, small web applications, etc).

I'm doing more and more internal consulting for accessibility, usability, web design, etc. I run an internal resource site that tries to list best practices and works as a self-help site for learning web developers.

I'm coming from a background of studying English (I'm French btw) and semiotics (nearly did a masters about comic books). Thus my approach tends to be quite general, all-inclusive (so to speak). I'm trying to embrace everything involved in the creation and maintenance of a web site: design, usability, accessibility, code optimisation, accessible dhtml (sort of), and I even give my opinion on content organisation (information architecture 101 if you will) as well as graphical design (I hate it when people "like the design" and it's not design, cf The Bathing Ape Has No Clothes... but most often it's what I'm presented with, internally).

Now I'm often invited to accessibility meetings in the company (they're at the moment trying to conform more and more applications to accessibility guidelines as we have many handicapped people in the company). Last but not least, everyday I do my load of technical watch through reading many sites and browsing around ('technical' being used in a very general way here), and that's when I read your sites (whitespace, css vault, and forever geek).

I'm very much interested in communication as a whole, and the web seems like one of the most interesting places for that. And I love being at the crossroads between technical hacking and improving communication among my contemporaries. I guess I'm a communication geek :)

(whew, that turned out longer than I thought it would).

Stephane Deschamps (nota-bene.org) (http://www.nota-bene.org/)

#133

never been to this site, but i am definitly intrigued. great community

I am a college student in ohio studying Visual Communications/Marketing.
At work i do design mostly of large format graphics with an emphesis on sports arenas, trade shows, etc...

Im 22, have really no idea what im doing, and everyday is a learning experience. I match the company well..:) I tinker in much, i master at little..

Scott Merker (http://www.club140.com)

#134

artist, illustrator, dispensing optician, washer-upper, chocolate eater. In no particular order.

nic (http://chilliesandchocolate.blogspot.com/)

#135

Fat Bastard.
Motorcyclist (can't bring myself to say "biker").
Web Designer.
First time poster here.
In that order.

John B

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