About
Name
Preston L. Cross
Current location
Helena, Alabama ( voted #1 city to live in in the state of Alabama! )
Birthplace
Birmingham, Al
Highschool
Pelham High School - Graduated
College
Virginia College/Webmaster degree/2006 - present
Hobbies
Cars
Video games on Playstation 3
Watching a movie
Listening to music
How I got into web design
All my life, I had wanted a computer like all of my other friends. Mainly because of the internet. The internet was growing and there was and still so much you can do on the internet. My most common tasks were chatting with friends online, looking at news about the latest video games, and just browsing information about anything I was interested in. Finally, when I was 14 years old, I got the chance to work all summer for my Dad's air conditioning business. After working up a sweat every day of that summer, I finally got the chance to buy my own computer. I signed up for AOL dialup, which it was the popular choice at the time, and soon became addicted. Always observing what you can do with this computer, browsing the internet, ect. Well one day during the following school year, I was in highschool, and one night at home, a friend had messaged me and told me about this website this kid from school made. On this website, this guy had made a basic HTML/CSS website, just for personal use and for his everyday life. But what got everybody's attention was the flash video cartoons he had made. They were cartoons of everyday life at our highschool. Most of the cartoons were of teachers that taught at the school and were making fun of them.( For example, in the cartoon, he was walking down the hall and ran into a teacher he didn't like. The teacher in the cartoon was not drawn to look like her. The teacher in the cartoon was drawn as satan. ) So I thought his overrall website was neat. His graphics, the colors he used, the organization, the use of the site; it all grabbed my attention.
THIS WAS A NEW TYPE OF ART I HAD DISCOVERED
With me already being somewhat of an artist growing up(drawing as a hobby), this looked fun. Not long after I was introduced to this way of art, I asked the guy who went to my school of where I can learn this stuff. I was told to browse certain websites with information on HTML/CSS for beginners. I was also introduced to Photoshop. I couldn't stop searching tutorials for neat effects. Throughout the years, I had gained more knowledge, made my own personal websites for fun. But I had not learned enough. Finishing highschool, I decided on what I want to do for a career, and decided to go to college to learn more about web design. Since I have been in school, I have already learned a tremendous amount. You can actually tell that I have improved and learned a lot more if you looked at some of my work from when I first started out compared to some of the work I do now. I believe I have always been fairly smart when it comes to designing. I know what colors stand out and what looks good. My biggest challenge is coming up with the right graphics, or just making them in general, but I'm not bad at all. A lot of my teachers have also told me good things about my work that they like, along with other students as well. So I'd say they have all given me a good portion of confidence. And that is how I have became interested in web design.
Name
Preston L. Cross
Current location
Helena, Alabama ( voted #1 city to live in in the state of Alabama! )
Birthplace
Birmingham, Al
Highschool
Pelham High School - Graduated
College
Virginia College/Webmaster degree/2006 - present
Hobbies
Cars
Video games on Playstation 3
Watching a movie
Listening to music
How I got into web design
All my life, I had wanted a computer like all of my other friends. Mainly because of the internet. The internet was growing and there was and still so much you can do on the internet. My most common tasks were chatting with friends online, looking at news about the latest video games, and just browsing information about anything I was interested in. Finally, when I was 14 years old, I got the chance to work all summer for my Dad's air conditioning business. After working up a sweat every day of that summer, I finally got the chance to buy my own computer. I signed up for AOL dialup, which it was the popular choice at the time, and soon became addicted. Always observing what you can do with this computer, browsing the internet, ect. Well one day during the following school year, I was in highschool, and one night at home, a friend had messaged me and told me about this website this kid from school made. On this website, this guy had made a basic HTML/CSS website, just for personal use and for his everyday life. But what got everybody's attention was the flash video cartoons he had made. They were cartoons of everyday life at our highschool. Most of the cartoons were of teachers that taught at the school and were making fun of them.( For example, in the cartoon, he was walking down the hall and ran into a teacher he didn't like. The teacher in the cartoon was not drawn to look like her. The teacher in the cartoon was drawn as satan. ) So I thought his overrall website was neat. His graphics, the colors he used, the organization, the use of the site; it all grabbed my attention.
THIS WAS A NEW TYPE OF ART I HAD DISCOVERED
With me already being somewhat of an artist growing up(drawing as a hobby), this looked fun. Not long after I was introduced to this way of art, I asked the guy who went to my school of where I can learn this stuff. I was told to browse certain websites with information on HTML/CSS for beginners. I was also introduced to Photoshop. I couldn't stop searching tutorials for neat effects. Throughout the years, I had gained more knowledge, made my own personal websites for fun. But I had not learned enough. Finishing highschool, I decided on what I want to do for a career, and decided to go to college to learn more about web design. Since I have been in school, I have already learned a tremendous amount. You can actually tell that I have improved and learned a lot more if you looked at some of my work from when I first started out compared to some of the work I do now. I believe I have always been fairly smart when it comes to designing. I know what colors stand out and what looks good. My biggest challenge is coming up with the right graphics, or just making them in general, but I'm not bad at all. A lot of my teachers have also told me good things about my work that they like, along with other students as well. So I'd say they have all given me a good portion of confidence. And that is how I have became interested in web design.