Some of my current heros include everyone from Lynda Weinman

jibon · 02-04-09

Hey guys.

My first post on these forums as you can see. I figured since most of the threads in the Introduction forum only have one or two replies that I'd post here instead of creating a new one.

I'm a 20 year old student living in Calistoga, CA (top of the Napa Valley).

I've been interested in web design and development since my early teens, taking courses whenever possible and self educating myself the rest of the time.

I feel I've come a long way from where I started. I went from using proprietery markup, browser specific scripts and CF5 to clean, clear, validating markup, ECMA/DOM script and Python in under 6 months. Smile

Some of my current heros include everyone from Lynda Weinman for her contributions to web graphics to Jeffrey Zeldman, Eric Meyer and Molly Holzschlag for there work in advocating web standards and accessibility.

Recently I've been becoming more and more aware of accessibility problems all across the web and feel it's my duty as a designer to confront these problems head on by showing others the often hidden benifits of designing sites with accessibility in mind. I'm hoping that one day I can look back and see that I had a small part in shaping the web into a world of content that can be shared among people regardless of platform, device or user agent.

David.Pagotto · 02-04-09

Hello Jibon,
Thank you for joining and enjoy your stay!