Greetings, earthlings.

[re8ecca]

Let's see, I have been slowly but surely working my way through the GRC program for several years now. I have a degree in Journalism from UNR, which would be totally worthless except that I specialized in advertising (whew).

I worked for a small, startup web design firm that imploded right along with the dot com bust in 2000 (thanks for that trip down memory lane, Michael), and then I worked for a big software company in Los Angeles as an analyst and software trainer. That job paid well, but it slowly devoured a piece of my soul each day until I came to hate it. Eight years later and the recession hit, and I had my excuse to jump ship and be a full-time parent.

Now my kids are in school, and I'm preparing for my next career. This time I'm doing something I truly love.

I have waited a long time to take this class, and I'm eager to learn. I confess, I know nada about programming, but anything that has to do with design interests me greatly.

[Instructor]

I worked for a small, startup web design firm that imploded right along with the dot com bust in 2000 (thanks for that trip down memory lane, Michael),

Glad I could be of service. Hey remember working 20 hour days and being paid only in stock options. Those were the days, huh.

Don't sweat the programming stuff. I'll teach you syntax, and after that, it's all learning the individual tags. We're mostly playing with WYSIWYG softwares anyway so it's not a huge component at this point.