I was about fifteen when I built my first webpage. It was nothing brilliant, but it was a page about me and designed by me. At the time, I was very proud of it and I thought it was a brilliant way for my out of town family and friends to see what was going on in my life. It was cute and fun, but it looked like it had been built by a teenage girl.

When I decided to go into professional web design, I would have been mortified if any of my clients had seen that first page I ever created. I did some formal training on the subject and then I started my own business. I teamed up with a logo design online company, as I wanted to have someone creative on my side to do the actual illustrations.

I have come a long way since that first page about me. It is not up on the web now, but I have saved it, just so I can go back and see what I was like when my life was much simpler. I get a good laugh at it, and sometimes, that is just what you need.