Coming from a marketing communications background, I'm a self-taught web publisher with a lot of help from Lynda.com, my good and patient and brilliant friend Paul Gurney, and forums like Stackoverflow.

I love solving problems, finding controls, and making things work.

I'm not sure I'll ever consider myself beyond newbie status — I know how to do many things now, but I still have trouble knowing what to call them (in the same way that I know how to practice grammar well but can never remember what to call all the grammatical components).

Thank you, Stackoverflow, for putting this wonderful resource in place.