About
JAWS.
In
2001, I started building a website that would showcase my hobbies and
interests. It took a year to build, off and on, and also due to the
fact I wasn't sure whether it would be that good or not. However, on
March 30th 2002, the site went live to the world and was called
Simon's Website. Only meant to be a temporary name until I thought of
something better. I still haven't thought of anything better - yet!
But that's besides the point - since the site opened it has changed
radically as I have improved on my skills.
Two
months later in May 2002, a club at the church I go to, was looking
into updating it's website and having loads of pictures of their
ongoing events on it. I took this on, and maintained it until 2005.
This gave me the idea of forming my own business of building websites
for people. I called it SJH Webs.
SJH
are the initials of my name, and Webs was supposed to mean like a
group of cobwebs interconnecting. In a way, it's partly true because
all my websites to date have some sort of connection with each other.
However,
I wasn't happy with the name, I didn't think it was original enough.
It stuck though until 2007. By now, I had been commissioned and paid
to build a website for the church I attend, expanded my own website by
buying domain names and webspace, building websites for podcasts that
I was involved with, and also having completed a diploma course in
Website Designing, I am now beginning to get recognised as a
professional web designer. So then, it came to me that I needed a
better name if I was taking my web design business seriously.
After
a long time of trying to think of something quirky, catchy and different
I came up with JAWS which stands for Just Another Web Site. Good, eh? Ha
Ha.
Even
though I have been a web designer for five years, there are still
things that I haven't learnt. I've just learnt the basics of PHP but
don't know how to do Flash yet. However, I am just about to start
University and one of the subjects on the course is Web Design so I may pick
up a few new things there. But as time goes along and new things
come out, I plan to continue and improve my skills and become a
confident and professional website designer.
Here's
to the future!
Simon
- October 2007
