ANNE HUTCHINS WEB DESIGN

In the summer of 2000, after having been laid off from what would be my last administrative assistant job, I had a career epiphany. I realized that I needed to change careers (I've always had a creative bent). The prospect of ending up in another cubicle working as a clerical scullion doing mundane busy-work just didn't appeal to me. Adding to that, my extensive background in insurance licensing had priced me out of lower-level clerical positions - jobs I really didn't want anyway. What to do? Return to my penchant for graphic design, with an emphasis on web development, of course. I had been building and maintaining personal websites since 1996, writing straight HTML code and utilizing WYSIWYG web editing software. I just needed to ‘fill in the blanks' of what I didn't know and refine what I did know. And I needed to learn graphics software: Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator et al. I also switched from FrontPage to Dreamweaver - which was quite a transition. I've now been designing..

Primary location: San Diego United States