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< p > Welcome to my website. My name is Dan Jones. I am a web developer and an actor, and I'd like to tell you a bit about myself.< / p >
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Commodore 64C< br / > © < a href = "http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C64c_system.jpg" > Bill Bertram< / a >
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< p > I was first exposed to computers as a child. My family had a Commodore 64, on which, as a ten-year old child, I would
do my homework, play games, and make simple programs. I learned how to program in
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BASIC< / abbr > < / a > . It was then that I began to
understand how computers could improve our day-to-day lives.< / p >
< p > When we upgraded to a newer computer, we finally got the Internet (via < a href = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_(online_service)" > Prodigy< / a > ) in our home. When I was 14, I got my first email address, and at 15, created my first website on < a href = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoCities" > GeoCities< / a > (my site was in the < em > Silicon Valley< / em > "neighborhood"). My site was essentially a blog before blogs existed.< / p >
< p > Initially, I built the site using a < abbr title = " What You See Is What You Get " > WYSIWYG< / abbr > editor (namely, < a href = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_FrontPage" > MS FrontPage< / a > ), but with my programming background, I was interested in what made these pages into the pages I saw in my web browser. It wasn't long before I was hand-coding the site.< / p >
< p > I learned < abbr title = " Hypertext Markup Language" > HTML< / abbr > to layout the site, < abbr title = "Cascading Stylesheets " > CSS< / abbr > to give it some style, and eventually JavaScript to make it dynamic. During that time, I had my own web design business. I only had client while in high school, but I gained skills necessary to work with others and to take another person's vision, and make it real.< / p >
< p > When I entered college, I gained additional skills necessary to run enterprise websites. I learned PHP, for truly dynamic website. I learned SQL, to interact with databases. I also gained some experience with server administration by setting up and running my website on my own < abbr title = " Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP" > LAMP< / abbr > server. I also gained experience with several platforms and frameworks.< / p >
< p > Since that time, I've worked building websites for small businesses, educational organizations, and large media companies.< / p >
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