hmmm.. I seriously don't remember.. I made a personal homepage some time ago... could be three years, so I'll say 2-3 years. I started using php(&mysql) in 2002, I think

 

We put 3-4 years..but we are in no way a web designer. We tamper around with basic HTML and Javascripts, but have not taken the steps toward MYSQL and PHP design. We started with a simple page called Dark Watcher's Domain and an EZBoard called Gamers Zone Forums...then we started helping Keith here and there..nothing major (let him do all the fancy stuff). Then we did a simple Adripsx ILE beta page..and with Keith's help a webpage for PCSX2 Support

www.dwconsoles.com was..and still is our first active working project

 

It has been about 2 years for me. More lately, I have stopped messing around with HTML/Javascript; it just didn't interest me anymore. The only site I have active now is bored.onlyhere.net.

 

I put 5+ years, because I'm 18 (almost 19) yrs old atm and first started using HTML to design pages when I was about 12. I designed my first page then with Angelfire, which was dedicated to gaming.

I started programming at 14 and eventually found my way into the world of DHTML scripting. I taught myself JavaScript by examing existing code and reading tutorials online. It was about then where I designed my second site with Hypermart. It employed extensive use of JavaScript... a little too much, in fact. My Hypermart site did better than the one at Angelfire, but was by no means successful.

After I turned 16, I bought my first domain name, flaredomain.net, and some hosting from Tera-Byte. I combined old content from Angelfire site with the new design of my Hypermart site, improved upon both, and added programming content to the new site. Since I had my own virtual server, I went ahead and added stuff like hosted webmail accounts, a message board, a link exchange, etc... I started to experiment with CSS. This was also the first site I submitted to search engines. The site still only did moderately well, receiving about a thousand hits each month. I figured I needed something cooler. I heard about something called Active Server Pages (ASP) from one of my friends and started looking into it. I quickly became familiar with the technology as its primary language was one I already knew. In turn, ASP introduced me to ADO and soon had me using server-side databases.

A year later, my hosting with Tera-Byte ran out and my friend offered to host me on his server. I decided to go ahead and scrap the old site and start fresh. I wanted something dynamic...something nobody had ever done before. This is where I started developing FLaReRaDiO as a spin-off of an idea proposed by a friend. Eventually, the project expanded and grew into what became known as FIMP. I got tons of support from the NGEmu community and others. Forum members Thorgal, i4get, and Strider helped out by making skins and proposing new ideas. Unfortunately, due to the extensive work I put into FIMP, I had a poor academic performance and that year among other things and ended up dropping the project.

After showing the project to a few people over the summer, I received numerous offers to design sites. Only one of the deals actually fell through. A startup web-design company also offered me a job, but they never got off the ground.

When 2003 rolled around, I started running my own server from home and decided to create a varition of FIMP, dubbed FIMS (FLaReTech Internet Media System). Here, I started to experiment with very complex coding tasks and managed to develop a pure ASP streaming engine that handled and streamed media at the binary level and employed technologies such as real-time playlist generation, media availability scheduling, IP accept/block permissions, etc.. I also messed around with manually manipulating the HTTP headers to adjust the way the client would handle the stream. Unfortunately, due to some complications, the project had to be put on hold, which is where its status currently stands. I hope to resume progress in the future when the issues clear up.

Since then, I haven't done much designing other than the current template for my homepage. There was actually an individual that liked the template so much that they purchased rights to develop with it from me for their site.

Anyways, I realize it's rather lengthy, but that's my experience and history. Right now, I'm familiarizing myself with Java, which could be used to make applets, I suppose. I also forgot to mention that I developed for my old school's site, but the work I did has been replaced by successive members to the development team.

 

I've been doing web development for about 7 years now. Started out on geocities and xoom. I've had my own domains for quite awhile. Sometimes I do a bit of this for work now. I perfer to work on servers since my design skills are mediocre.

 

5+ years. Took my first HTML class at 10. Designed my first website that same year and hosted it on Angelfire. It was devoted to RPGs and Mortal Kombat of all things. Then I wanted to learn how to program to write Video Games. I took a computer programming camp that lasted 4-days. It taught the very basics of C++. Taught myself all of the rest of my programming skills from books, articles, magazines, examining other peoples code.

As for webpages. I've had numerous webpages over the years. Mostly devoted to my programming projects and Video Games.

I worked in the field of Cryptography for a while as well. I wrote a simple Entropy Gathering tool for Windows based on the Yarrow RNG as well as the GnuPG entropy gatherer. It used various pseudo-ranom occurences in the Windows OS environment such as mouse position, number of applications open, application screen positions, time since startup, current time, number of hard-drive reads, most recent hard-drive read time, hard-drive seek time, number of packets sent/received, and a few other things to create random data. It then took this data into a pool and calculated the SHA-1 secure hash of the values of the pool data every so often, and that was the random data. I also designed a secure Instant Messenger in Java called QuickConnect. It used the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol over SSL then used AES(Rijndael) algorithm for encryption.

Now I'm working on the NeoPSX Playstation Emulator. Its holding my interest extremely well and I don't plan on quitting anytime soon.

Thats all there is to know

 

+1. I learned Html when I was 14 but I didnt bother improving my skills after that. Why do you ask? Because no matter how hard I try, I couldnt design an excellent hompage ( besides, I didnt find it worthwhile )

Yours,
-Elly

 

i am 15 now, and i designed my first HTML page at 13 with no internet connection and only an intranet at school there was no where to learn.
Now having an internet connection for almost a year, i learnt alot of HTML and now have a reasonable php and MYSQL site www.chris.bladehost.net , oh and i do a bit of programming from time to time as well

 

I learned HTML when I was 13-14 (I think, I really don't remember). With 15 I started doing stuff with perl (what I consider developing, that's why I chose 3-4). 2 Years ago I started PHP-Stuff.
To sum it up: No that long ago.

 

I don't think using Frontpage Express counts as web design, so I'll say two years, otherwise 3-4.

Although, I haven't really done anything for almost 8 months, and am just now studying XHTML, CSS and PHP.

 

5+. Several years ago (IIRC 1997), a company i've had worked before decided that it's time to have a look at the "internet thingy". They hired me as a contractor, though my goals were rather obscure... But that was funny, we made a home page (the design was made by their marking team, it was up to us to translate it into HTML), wrote some CGI programs, installed the mail server and stuff like that.

 

Hmm, Ive never really liked programming, but html and php has captured my interests. I did a little basic html page on starcraft. From there I did a clan home page, then moved into advanced, good looking html. From there i've slowly dipped into php. My current site, GHSprays , is very basic php, mainly includes. I took its basic layout and chopped it into a million managable pieces to make updating MUCH easier. From there I dabbled into a little more complex stuff with mysql, and server administration. I plan to spend my spring break (7 days) totally devoted to learning php4 from an e-book. Its something I swore I would do some day.

One thing I would like to do is convert my site to using css, but I have no idea where to start :\

edit: oops, forgot to mention I choose 1-2 years, but counting the years now, its 3-4 since I started when I was 13.