My history with web design started in the most unexpected of ways. At 22, I decided to go solo with music and used the name 17Kings. At the time, I knew absolutely nothing about web design, but do bear in mind that my dad was a programmer, so programming wasn’t exactly foreign to me, at least, the idea that you had to write code that would tell a program to do something wasn’t. One of my best friends and flat mate at the time made me a website for 17Kings. Being a graphic designer, he even created the logo which I still use today. What a great gift! As years went by, I needed to update the site and while living in Dublin, found a friend of a friend who could do it, but this time it was going to cost me. I had a growing catalog of material and realized that updating the site was going to be costly. Still I didn’t really give that much importance to the site because I had other things to deal with in life, like life itself. At that same time, MySpace was the big thing and being me, I was always unsatisfied with the way my profile looked. I’d change Monday, and wake up on Tuesday already tired of it. It’s important to remember the brilliance of MySpace due to the fact that you could actually customize the look of your profile and contact section. So, the first time I ever used html, was actually in my MySpace bio in order to customize the page. I didn’t really know what I was doing, but it worked. Moving on, I found myself living in Stockholm during the economic crisis of 2008. With not much work to be found, and enough time on my hands to learn something new and useful, a Swedish friend who worked in web design introduced me to Adobe Dreamweaver and explained that I should try learning about html so I could manage the 17Kings site on my own. Throughout that cold and dark Swedish winter (which I love), I studied html and Flash. At one point, I took a month off from doing any work, and basically slept 4 hours, then studied for 8, then slept for 4 and studied another 8. Sure, after that month, I learned almost everything I know about html…but I also learned a lot about my own sanity. But hey, I’m all in or nothing, that’s just me. Around 2010, back in Milan, the growth of iPhones relentlessly pushed Flash off the ledge, HTML5 and CSS3 were in, and thus I had to evolve because not only was I working on my own site, but a few friends were asking me to do theirs as well. A few years later, a good friend with whom I’d gone to audio school introduced me to WordPress…and that was it. Sure, I enjoyed the web development process, but because I was so used to doing it the long way, WordPress practically cut my delivery time in half and I found myself doing sites for not only friends, but friends of friends without any real sweat. I kept studying, and at some point, and I can’t remember when, I started charging people and it became a great job!