Why I love my job

I am a web designer by trade and self confessed geek by personality. I spend most of my waking hours in front of a computer, whether it is my mac at work or my mac at home. I like coding and designing and trying to organise the display of information, not only in a way that looks good, but in a way it makes sense. This might be a side effect of the “information engineering” part of my university course back when I was young and impressionable.

I really enjoy taking a site map and a photoshop visual and breathing life into it. I love the challenges and overcoming obstacles, to reach the end of the line to a finished website or application that “works!” Thus quite often I can be seen at work doing my little victory dance in my chair, when a little bit of code is working like expected, swearing if something isn’t, or lovingly stroking my monitor cooing “my baby” at a finished project. [Thank god I work with fellow understanding geeks and they haven’t committed me yet, although they all consider me crazy]

Skills

My job is to create bespoke web solutions using HTML/xHTML, Ruby on Rails, ExpressionEngine or Wordpress depending on the project scale and requirements.

I love keeping up with new technologies and expanding my skillset continuously. My key skills include, but are not limited to, the following:

• HTML / xHTML
• CSS
• jQuery
• Information Architecture
• Project Management
• Usability
• Accessibility (WAI)
• Cross browser compliance

Me in the real world

I do often break away from work to do other real-lifey things. I really enjoy cooking and experimenting in the kitchen. My cooking is fusion of Greek and other cuisines. I mainly listen to drum n bass and rarely to some greek stuff when I’m feeling homesick. I “make things” (as well as break things but that’s another story) meaning I like crafts and DIY. I draw with REAL pencils on REAL paper, probably better than I do on illustrator. I own hundreds of books! I read and I do that a lot, whether it’s trade magazines, greek or english books, even the local paper when I’ve run out of stuff. I don’t ever watch TV. At least not the square black thing in the living room. Which is somewhat of a lie since I follow quite a few series online. I play WoW. I take pictures. I’m fascinated by light and water.