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Welcome to my site. I hope that you enjoy the pages here. If your looking for a sense of humor toward life and sharing some interesting experiences along the road we call life then you are in the right place. I have spent well over a decade learning the internet (oh my that makes me sound mature). It has to a great extent been a self taught trip. In 2005 I decided to begin the new adventure of a college education (trying to figure out how to get a degree is interesting in itself). Not that I haven't had my fair share of education, except for cosmetology school (which provided me with a very lucrative 20 year career) it has all been life and self taught, oh and not to forget the new tricks each of my children have taught me along the way. As you know self teaching can sometimes lead to bad habits, the worst being procrastination. Hence my life long dream of an internet business has not been fulfilled yet. But on the up side I have learned a few secrets and lots of things I do not want to do on the net, there is a whole page devoted to that little adventure. As you might guess my site is finally getting built because it is part of my final for a class (better some way than not at all is my motto). I learned HTML in a word editor and always found Dreamweaver a little cumbersome but after having taken this course I am seeing some advantage to this program. I also use WordPress and am anxious to figure out how to build those page in this program. I learned PHP (self taught from a book called "Learn Pearl in a Weekend") so I could set up a shopping cart, it was free, being a GNU and the community of people there are extremely helpful, there will be more on this subject in the design pages of my site. I learned Jasc Paint Shop Pro first and have lately come to the Adobe suit. Primarily because most of the sign shops use it and one of my goals is sub contracting work from businesses. I have held many types of jobs and after taking a job with the state thinking in terms of job security (bahahaha) I found myself without one and over qualified for many and under qualified for others, hence my two year dry spell. So here we are on the internet putting together a site that will hopefully impress someone seeking help or assistance with design, web sites, shopping carts or just needs a little laughter in their day.

This is so hard, had to rebuild this page the roll-over menu bar will not work and my fidgeting with it I lost page content and did not have it back up on a second area...will have to do a page of what not do do when building a web site.


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Melissa from Phx AZ
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May 6, 2011