I like talking, but not so much about myself. Maybe it’s because I’m not sure exactly what you want to know. Maybe you just want the basics. In that case, I could tell you that I’m a professional web designer in my mid late-twenties living and working in Wausau, Wisconsin.
Working hard.
I spent 4 years in college where I learned some things about the “design” but not “the web.” All during my college days (and late high school) I’d messed around with various aspects of the internerd, starting off with questionable GeoCities sites and slowly working my way up to what could almost be acceptable HTML, if we had still been in the late 90’s at the time.
In the summer of 2003 I interned with Footlocker.com. Less than two years later I was still there but as a senior graphic designer. Unfortunately, while I enjoyed the opportunities allowed by having a senior title I was becoming detached from web design. I left in April 2006 to work at/with/for Digital Dialogue, and in August 2007 I started to focus just a tad more on that freelance thing. I don’t think I could do one without the other.
I’m also the Technical Director & Cofounder (it sounds so official!) of local blog Citizen Wausau and cohost of a podcast called The Insophisticate, which may return. Or maybe not.
And for all the ladies out there, I’m on several boards and stuff for different organizations. Yeah, that’s right.
Hardly working.
When I’m not pushing pixels or sorting out Internet Explorer, you’ll find that I’m still sitting in front of the computer, doing… something. I’d say that video games are my one true love but I don’t want the internet to find out that I’m cheating on it. I have a habit of accumulating them and all sorts of other gadgetry, which makes it hard to save up for other things.
But technophile that I am, even I manage to pull myself away from my desk or off the couch. If that is the case, chances are I’m on a bike or in a car, and I’m really enjoying it. Or I’m taking photos and wishing I had a better camera but not really being sure whether I could justify such a thing.
Or I’m acting. Given how much time that seems to take up, there’s a pretty good chance that’s what I’m doing.
I make websites. Including this one.
andylaub.com runs on WordPress 2.something, and uses PHP, CSS, and a couple assorted plugins (contact me for specifics) to get its job done. I pretty much just use Creative Suite for everything, running on a Mac Pro, one of the best computers known to man.
Posts originate either from WordPress proper or from Twitter, while for images Flickr is the one and only. The site lives on Dreamhost – it’s cheap. And it’s usually up.
