by bryan chalker | Feb 17, 2014 | Website |
Are you a Christian web designer? One whose primary role is church web design or faith-focused design? I’m not sure about your situation, but for me – I didn’t start learning web design to become the next Jeffrey Zeldman (the first web guy I was in awe of. A geek’s rock star). I started it as a hobby. I always loved messing with my Commodore64 and TI-99, and when I heard of “html”, well, I had to check it out. Sitting at work one day, I read pages of “learning html” on one of the countless sites that gave free webspace to anyone. I was giddy at my first attempt…an embedded spinning globe animated .gif, stuck on a page of glittering stars. Beautiful. Not the look, but the potential. I was hooked. I knew what I wanted to spend time learning and developing. But I no idea how to implement what I was learning about, in my everyday life. One minute backstory – when I was 19, I felt a specific calling in my life to enter into “full-time” ministry. It was a clear and powerful call. God would be using my skills and talents for his purpose. I spent the next 10 years praying and seeking where I would be used. Preacher? Teacher? Missionary? I never felt a peace about any of that, though the importance of each was always apparent. Fast-forward to around early 2000. I was asked by my supervisor at MediaOne (a regional cable/isp that I worked at in Jacksonville), based on my new found interest in web code, to help him develop an intranet site...
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