Category Archives: intro

the intro tag, identifying people’s introductions

1. My name is Jax and it’s nice to meet you!

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Me with my girlfriend's cat.
Me and my girlfriend’s cat.

Howdy, y’all! My name is Jax Stafford and I’m a freelance writer and filmmaker from Austin. I’m currently at Texas State University working to finish my degree in journalism.

I’ve worked in the local film industry for a few years, doing low budget indie movies, commercials and a bit of TV.  I own a production company called Nickel Slick, for which I write and develop corporate websites and videos.  I’ve been coding in HTML since the early 2000s and I’m hoping to use this class to hone my development skills to a fine, deadly point.

As far as spare time goes, I don’t have much, but I like music — both listening to and composing it (I’m very much an amateur), watching movies, writing short stories, drawing, swimming, long walks on the beach, etc.

My future career will be something in video production and I’d like to shoot documentaries as well as my own films.  Last year, I started working with both the Escoffier Culinary School and a new local food magazine developing a web series called Texas Food Crawlers.

I have a Twitter account at @jaxstafford and also a Facebook page.  I’m looking forward to meeting and collaborating with all you talented people!

Blog Post 1: Welcome to Web Design & Publishing!

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My name is cary-anne. I have lived in Austin since 2002, longer than I’ve lived anywhere else, and I cannot think of another place I’d rather live. I took this very course from the then-nearly-Dr. Cindy Royal  back in spring 2004. I loved the material so much I went on to become a Webmaster, then later a Web & Graphic Designer. I went to grad school in 2010 because I wanted to learn how to make Web sites and software easy to use, so I studied Interaction Design & Usability at the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. I graduated in May 2013 and got a Certificate of Advanced Study in Global Media & Research Analysis in August 2013. 

torchy's queso
Torchy’s queso. Photo from Chicken Fried Everything.

In my spare time, I like to go to shows and see movies with my friends at the Alamo Drafthouse. When I’m not doing one of those things, I’m probably at Torchy’s Tacos eating their delicious queso and a Hipster taco.

 

I love teaching Web skills, and being in the academic environment. I hope to make this class as fun for you as it was for me when I took it.

My Twitter handle is @_caryanne because by the time I decided to use my name as my handle, someone else had taken it. Wommmp.