On January 03, 2003 at 5:22, Ross Clutterbuck wrote:
> Following Will's lead then:
> Who's next?
heh, heh, i'll bite. I live on an island off the west coast of British
Columbia,
Canada. Life is good when you remember to close the garden gate so the deer
don't get in.
Started out in the 80's with tape drives and dbase and a boss that had a
warehouse that he trusted me with. Things happen, I moved, different job, and
didn't touch a computer again until a few years ago. I bought a box that had
Win98 and it had PWS. A brother bought me a fat book for Xmas for the OS, but
the part that I went back to after absorbing it was the chapter on HTML and what
PWS was used for. The book didn't go beyond the <h>, <p>, <b>, and <i>
elements but that was so cool anyways. My ISP at the time gave free web space
and the dutch in me wouldn't let it go to waste; and there was also this thing
called Front Page with Win98. First site was three pages on free space. Wow,
neato and all that eh.
A week later was wanting more and purchased Dreamweaver. Still couldn't
get enough, so then took classes at a mainland college on HTML and
JavaScript. Did well, and same brother was convincing me I had a product to sell
after hand coding his law firm's web site. I was done with Dreamweaver by then
and started calling myself a Web Developer instead of web site design person.
Became a reseller, have a few hosting clients now, and last year earned income
on about 1/2 a year for "regular" wages and the other 1/2 just on
web/computer/hosting work.
I take anything that comes along, it's a small island eh. Last project: billed
an
hour for creating a form the building supply store needed using Pagemaker and
exported to a .pdf so it would print easy for them. Simple, nothing related to the
web, but it pays the rent. Also ongoing web-wise, numerous updates to clients
web sites, (I've been pretty good about *not* selling CMS's), developing a new
site for an old client that requires a db back end for a number of functions, a
stationary package, (L/H, B/C, + Env.), for a neighbor, the guy that sells smoked
salmon needs his puter looked at after the kids downloaded a virus of some sort,
(that's a barter job of course), Alice down the way couldn't get her printer to work
with her new puter after installing Win2k, you get the picture.
When you live in a place that is only accessible for the 3500 residents by
boat, you live by the "get it done" principle 'cause it's a bit of a chore to go to
the
continent. If you do well your name gets around, er, it gets around if you don't do
well either ;-)
Google, Half-Price Computer book stores, a strong desire to learn more, and
lists like this are essential tools for this "job" that started out as a hobby and a
new toy; but remains something that is fun, enjoyable, and people actually pay
me for it.
Regards,
Mark Groen
MG Web Services
Web Site Hosting and Development
www.markgroen.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
604-780-6917
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