As a college student at Saint Louis University I realized through various experiences that a degree without a skill was not what I wanted to leave SLU with. After seeing what was capable on the computer via
graphic manipulation and media creations I decided to change my major from Business Management to Communications. In my first media course I was introduced to web page building under the direction of
Les Hostetler who was an assistant to Sr. Instructor Bob Stahl.
Thanx Les
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I'm not exactly sure but it might have been either a semester or a year before I got around to responding to those ads on the Internet that offered free web page space 20 megs, 30megs, even 100megs. During that semester or year, I was able to create my own images, learn various programs and of course live a lil bit of college life (mostly work in other classes though). But by late 1998 I was able to begin creating my very own web sites that I would post on the Internet. My very first site that I created was actually one I made in class, but we didn't post them on the Internet. Ever since that time I have wanted to create Web Pages. My first idea was to create a network of pages of everything I liked, and even talk about things that I felt I had never had a chance to voice my opinion about. Even though I spent many Friday nights and Saturday mornings teaching myself how to use html code, it was still not enough time to complete the goal I had in mind. Especially when there was a very tight size restriction on what you could upload on these free sites. This really hurt once I moved to video editing and creation in my studies. But I did get into animated gifs. Unfortunately this is where it ended.....for a time.
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