Web design in the beginning

Having completed a DTP course (good old Desk Top Publishing) which covered Quark Express, Photoshop and Illustrator; all this on a Mac, a friend asked me whether I would like to develop a website for him while learning to make web sites.

I purchased the book Frontpage 2000 in easy steps by Michael Price and set about developing my first website for said friend.

The site was an Accommodation portal and it made for an interesting start.

I moved from the country I was living in to a new non-English speaking country and I continued developing the site.

He had paid me in RAM for a computer, had bought a scanner for me which I still use till this day, as well as giving me a 2nd hand computer which maybe was better suited to a council dump. I am not sure whether I also got cash for the project.

I became so enthusiastic with the project that I began adding places to see and started working on maps for the site where accommodation was relevant to various places of interest and sight-seeing.

There was no charge for what I was doing as I was having fun experimenting and learning more however my enthusiasm for what I was doing was not matched by his show of appreciation, so I decided to develop a running information portal.

And this was how my biggest portal to date came into being.

The site is still has its original warts and all HTML which is in dire need for updating in 2009.