My experience with making websites started a while back with basic static HTML. Since the source of web pages are easily accessible (view source in your web browser), it is very easy to teach yourself. I did this, and wrote a few small static web pages for my church and myself. I also learned basic javascript/Dynamic HTML.

After my freshman year in college, I got a job working with a company that tought me my first "server side" web technology, ASP running on a MS Access Database.

Shortly after learning this technology, I wrote a small web application for my college that allowed students to list their used books online and search for books. I showed it to the webmaster at that time, and he hired me to write web applications for the college.

The funny thing about the web applications I wrote is that the idea for each one originated out of a need I had at that time. I thought of the used books sale site one day after realizing I would soon have to buy my books for the semester.

When I started to run out of mealpoints one semester, I wanted to try to drive down the price of mealpoints (students sell them to each other) by consolodating all the buying/selling, so I created a web application to allow students to buy/sell mealpoints online.

When I was a student computer technichian, we were using an old helpdesk/suport ticket system that ran on command line terminals. The interface was hard to read and hard to use, so I wrote a web based helpdesk application.

When I rebuilt my computer and had spare parts I wanted to sell, I created a generic sales site (simelar to ebay) that allowed students to sell almost anything to their fellow students.

I also created a web based student news system, allowing students to post notices/lost/found/whatever to a nightly email sent out to all students.

When I started looking into purchasing a hosting package for my own website (this one), I found that websites that use ASP needed to be on Microsoft Windows servers, which are much more esxpensive than Linux servers.

Linux servers use PHP as their main server-side technology, with a My-Sql database behind it. Since I had no experience with PHP, I dove into it and taught myself how to use it. PHP is a very powerful web language, I like it much more than the other languages ive used.

Since that time I have written this website, a website for a Matrix Online Faction I started, a website for a Firefighter I/II class I was in, and a redesign of a our church's website.