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Re: How did you come to do webpage design?

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Originally Posted by KeatonM View Post
I made a website for a contest when I was 10. It was absolutely awful, and looking back, I probably broke every W3 'rule' there is. It had a marquee, links that were the same color as the text, and more.

Even though the site was bad, I liked making it, and stick with it.

Now I'm 18, and throughout the last 8 years, I've been on the staff team of several large gaming forums, two of which I'm still staff at. (one gets 300k page views a month and the other gets over 1 million.)

I've also been working as a web developer with a small company for the last year. I realize that's it pretty much perfect for me.

I'm in college for IT, but I'm doing a web and mobile concentration.

Web design (and moreso development) for me is incredibly rewarding.

During my last year in FIRST I started a redesign effort on my team's website, which will hopefully be live before build season starts (assuming the current members get it done )
It amazes me how early some people on this thread started web page design. And then to become successful in that field. It's so cool that you've turned something you like into a rewarding career.
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