About

I am the owner and sole proprietor of Green Web Design. I have 28+ years of experience as a Programmer, Website Developer, and Digital Advertising Professional. Computers and Websites are my passion!

I began using computers in 1983-1984. My school had a computer lab, and I was in the gifted program, where we were given access to computers daily. I used Apple IIE’s at school as well as IBM computers. I began programming in LOGO at this time. I also began programming in Commodore BASIC in 1985, after my parents got me my very own first computer, a Commodore 64, at the age of 8 years old.

The first thing I ever programmed in Basic (with the help of Commodore Magazine) was a midi folk song, “Tom Dooley”, which played while a little red ball bounced above the lyrics.

The Internet as we know it became available to the public in 1993, and I was instantly obsessed. My friends and I already spent all of our free time dialing into local BBS’s with our 2400 baud modems and our 286×6 IBM PC’s. 80MB Western Digital HD, 4MB RAM, lol. We were always taking our old computers apart and using them to try to expand our memory and other hardware. We were just really, really nerdy.

I began to learn about Website Design at Milwaukee Area Technical College in 1995, where I was going to community college and taking classes towards an Associates in Science.

I also took some computer classes. They introduced us to WYSIWYG website editors, like Microsoft Frontpage (1995) and Netscape Composer (1997). I initially bought a student copy of Frontpage. Later, I bought a student copy of Macromedia Dreamweaver 3, which became my favorite software for many years. I also bought Dreamweaver 4, and the Dreamweaver Suite. Later it was bought by Adobe, and I stopped using it.

Mostly, I taught myself HTML, CGI, Perl, XML, DHTML, CSS, and other markup languages using the Internet and books like the HTML Bible, and O’Reily books, which I carried with me everywhere. I used Notepad to write HTML, but Macromedia Dreamweaver made repetitive tasks like menus so much faster/easier, so I used both. I also went on to learn PHP, MySQL, and Network Administration from the Internet. I had far surpassed what I could learn at that particular school at that time. It was a different world, and there weren’t really any advanced computer classes available at your local community college yet.

I never did finish my Associates in Science either. I got something like 30 credits, and then my beloved grandma Louise was diagnosed with cancer. I took some time off from college to stay home and give grandma hospice care at home with my parents, sister, and grandpa. The 5 of us took care of her together around the clock for more than a year before she passed away. I was devastated, and I just never went back to school again after that. I continued to make websites for small local businesses, as well as waitressing third shift and working at a clothing store 2nd shift. Later, I gave up waitressing and just did tech support and web design until 2005.

In 2000 when I chose my current business name, Green Web Design, I was still stuck on environmental science. I was thinking of websites as an environmentally friendly alternative to the extremely costly and wasteful telephone books, newspapers, and other forms of paper advertising that constantly littered our doorsteps. With that in mind, I registered this domain name and made my new brand name official.

In 2005, I left my tech support job at a large Insurance-to-Value software company. I have been a fully self employed website developer since then.

I have spent thousands of hours learning, programming, developing, and supporting small business websites in the United States. This includes learning related skills such as Logo design, Business card design, SEO, and Marketing. I am an expert in my field several times over, but I’m also an expert in several associated fields.

Green Web Design is not merely my career. It is my personality. It’s who I am way deep down inside. I love computers, data, coding, the Internet, learning new languages, and just everything about my chosen path.

I love making complicated spreadsheets and databases to neatly organize data. I love making pretty logos and branding. I love inventing new mini businesses for myself. I love my clients and their businesses as much as I love my own businesses. I also love marketing my creations (aka showing off the pretty things I made and that I am SO VERY proud of).

It doesn’t matter what the job is, I can get it done!  From registering a domain name and web hosting; to expertly building a robust, compliant, dynamic, fast loading website which provides a positive end user experience for your clients; to branding and logos; managing social media profiles and campaigns; to providing effective digital advertising solutions; I can assist you every step of the way.