I've been designing websites now for about 8 years, with child bearing breaks inbetween! I'm self-taught, used MSFrontPage to start with then got interested in writing my own HTML and CSS although JavaScript is still beyond me. I tend to keep the graphics as small and integral as possible so that pages load fast and you don't loose visitors because, my grail is a functional, clean looking site. Unbelieveably gorgeous but slow websites just don't cut it for me; not everyone is on the fastest possible broadband connection with the largest screen resolutions and most colors available. 'Nuff said, please take a look at the following websites to see my work: