I've been using ColdFusion since CF5 and have been building web sites for over 10 years. I remember being excited when Microsoft first introduced Front Page. Man, what was I thinking? As soon as (then) Macromedia introduced Dreamweaver, I was hooked. Recently, when it comes to ColdFusion anyway, I've also been using CFEclipse.

My first sites were just hobby sites, in fact my first "major" site was actually for a fantasy football league I was a commissioner for many moons ago. This was before Yahoo!, ESPN and others jumped on the fantasy sports bandwagon. We had to pay for a software program that would compile the stats each week and then I would transfer the information (by hand of course) to our web site. I had a form for each team owner to submit their lineup which was sent to me via email (that was hot stuff back in the day!). Then I would post each team owners lineup to the site so everyone could see who had who in the game.

Since then, I've actually lost count of the number of web site projects I've been involved with. However, I do plan to put *most* of the projects I'm involved with on here. Only most of the sites because well, once a client gets a hold of the files, some have a tendency to completely ignore all aspects of the original design, etc.

Speaking of design, I design with CSS and XHTML. When possible, I do strive to keep the sites I work on within W3C standards and at least minimal compliance with the web accessibility standards.

As for dynamic site development, I've developed in ASP and PHP, but am most comfortable in ColdFusion (CFM).

I'm currently working for Ignition Studio, an agency located in Rockford, IL. I'm originally from the Cleveland/Akron area of Ohio, but have lived in Illinois since 2001. I'm married and have two awesome kids. I'm also a movie addict, so you might see a review here and there.

As for why I'm doing this (blogging) ... well, even though I've taken numerous day-, multi-day-, week- and multi-week courses over the years, some of the greatest bits of help came from people just like me, web site developers who had some knowledge they could share with the greater community at large.

As for the data-driven stuff, I use primarily Microsoft SQL Server (2000, 2005) and have also used MySQL when needed. Yes, I'm extremely comfortable with MS Access, and I learned fairly early on to avoid it whenever possible for most of my web projects mainly due to security-related issues (not so much the "performance" issues touted so heavily throughout the web). However, sometimes a client will need something quite simple and temporary, yet not mission-critical.

If you would like to know more about me, don't hesitate to contact me. Thanks for reading and I look forward to helping out where I can.