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For some reason, I was in charge of putting together the artwork and jackets for my band’s (crappy) tapes. Of course, the tapes didn’t sell that great, but they introduced me to graphic design, even though I didn’t know what that was at the time.</p><p>Through the years I’ve worked on albums, magazines, posters, film fest programs and all kinds of other things that required some sort of design element. In 2002, I picked up a book on HTML so I could figure out how to get some designs online. As much as I loved design, programming started to take over my life. The web kept constantly changing and I did my best to keep up, learning xHTML, CSS, PHP, mySQL, JavaScript and ActionScript. I’m somewhat like a sponge when it comes to code and I love picking up new techniques and tricks. 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