James is another one of the “web guys” I met through Refresh Phoenix and he’s also one of the guys who helped get Refresh Phoenix started. James is the founder and CEO of Forty Media, a local web design company, and CJO of Jitsu.com.
How did you get started as a web designer?
In ‘94, I was sitting in a college computer lab, and one of the lab managers handed me a photocopied tri-fold brochure called “Introduction to HTML,” with a recommendation that I do something better with my time than trying to find free video games. I signed up for a GeoCities account that very day.
How long have you been working as a web designer?
I’ve been doing web design/development non-stop for the past 12 years. Most of the jobs I’ve held since that date have involved …
In the interviews that I post in the next few days and weeks you’ll notice that I use the term web designer a lot. Many of the people I interview are web developers, project managers, etc and not web designers but they all work on the web and build websites.
The interviews are really just a series of questions that I asked everyone. This first interview is an interview with Sean Tierney of Grid7 and JumpBox. He’s a local web developer that I met at Refresh Phoenix and you can check out his blog at http://scrollinondubs.com.
How did you get started as a web designer?
By summer of my Junior year in college the web was starting to get interesting. I had taken a psychology course where the professor made us publish our experiment via the web and in …