Who is SPXDS/TechnoColor
Melissa has been on the web since the late 90’s and into computers since the 80’s. Melissa's first computer was a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A computer. Through the years she has had both PCs and Macs, but finally switched completely to Apple/Mac Computers in 2007.
Melissa has always had an interest in drawing and painting since she was a kid. In the late 90's Melissa got into drawing digitally, but still does paper drawings and sketches too.
Melissa is very knowledgeable in the area of web development, graphic design, Marketing, Information Systems, building/upgrading computers, ISP/MAC/PC:Software/Hardware tech support, and Internet development.
She has been developing, and designing for the last 13 years now. She holds a degree in Information systems, and is currently working on getting more degrees in Web Development and Design as well as Commercial graphics, print, etc. She also keeps up with todays design trends, technologies, and learning the latest programming languages too.
Melissa is also a blogger, and has been blogging on the web since late 1999 early 2000. She enjoys building websites, designing graphics, and still enjoys upgrading or building computers in her spare time as well.
Melissa codes all websites by hand in a text editor and creates them to be user-friendly, web standards compliant, as well as resolution, browser & platform valid. Her mission is to create websites that anyone and everyone can use.
Aside from being a design/web standards perfectionist, you will find Melissa to be a great team member or someone who can independently work as well. Melissa is also great on meeting the strictest deadlines and she also tries to get all of her work done before the actual deadline too.
When not working Melissa enjoys spending her free time by volunteering her knowledge and time to local community and non profit groups. As well as spend quality time with family and friends.
Tools of the Trade: An Apple Computer, Adobe CS4, TextMate, & Coda (Text editors) and Transmit(FTP).
Browser Testing: IE(6, 7, and 8 Beta), Safari(Win/Mac), Firefox Win/Mac and Opera (Win/Mac)