Since the creation of our world the diversity and elaboration of the people's characters and skills have grown to such extend that it is virtually impossible to describe one with the simple pen and paper. One's skills, rendered through my point of view would came up entirely different from yours or your friend's or his friend's… Aware of this I will try to describe myself not with the help of adjectives, which would obviously be very subjective, but I will try to create a straight and simple yet very real view of the part of my life I devoted on computers and in particular Web Design.

  It all started three and a half years ago. It was the year before I was about to graduate; a time when many thoughts were flashing in and out of my head making me ponder what I was going to do with my life. I was dealing with computers for some years but not so seriously in order to call myself a professional. It was 1998 that I first entered the Internet. At that very moment everything elucidated in my head - it was Web Design that I wanted to do - so interesting, so vast, so challenging…

  I commenced with Visual Web Design. I was dealing with Microsoft Front Page 98 a little more than five months (to be honest I still create HTML code with that program because it saves a great amount of time). But gradually I switched to pure HTML writing because with the "encroachment" of the DHTML I was unable to design top-notch Web sites without using the newest features of the 4th and 5th generation of browsers - it is just that Front Page 98 could not deal with such things.

  I should say that my most valuable skill is JavaScript along with the PHP/MySQL server-side scripts development. It was the first programming language that I learned and so I have longest experience on it. I hold the notion and it is 80% JavaScript & CSS and a great server-side language (like PHP or PERL) that make a Web site a superb place to visit.

  In the middle of 2000 I understood that even though DHTML could be absolutely useful one Web designer could not do without a server-side language. I was just employed by the local ISP "Internet Group" and I was in charge of a project called "Linux-Bulgaria". The experience with Linux gave me much on my way through PERL. Actually PERL is not the perfect language for major Web projects but I didn't know about PHP by then. The same year with DHTML&PERL I created a site for ThinkQuest - an US Internet Competition (<a href="http://www.thinkquest.org">http://www.thinkquest.org</a>) and I with my team won the silver award and a scholarship of $5000.

  The more I was dealing with the Web the more I was enchanted by it and I wanted to learn more. What was next???

  The database - the thing that help many web designers deal with large amount of content. So I started working with SQL databases (Mainly MySQL) simultaneously with PHP. Again with much experience in LINUX and PERL learning PHP and SQL was not so difficult ( Much to my surprise PHP had many things from PERL but implemented in much easier way).

  For these years I was dealing with computer languages but in order to design Web sites one needs to handle Graphic Design and Macromedia Flash animation. I was not an exception to this rule and while learning the Web languages I was designing in Ulead PhotoImpact and animating in Macromedia Flash which was superbly easy because of the much visuallity of the graphics and animation programs.

  All that I wrote above was just facts in chronological order for the three and a half years I spent "roaming" around the boundless Web Design, but what is left from these years is the experience and many sites which illustrate the gradual improvement of my skills and knowledge. I do not know how much this paper has helped you understand my character but what is more important in below - the pieces of HTML, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, PERL, FLASH 4/5, Ulead PhotoImpact Design that I have left to the Internet community. Have a look at them because people could not be described in paper - only through their works one could understand what is beyond the pure skills.

<a href="http://www.diversityworldwide.com/">http://www.diversityworldwide.com/</a> - US Job Board
<a href="http://www.diversityworldwide.com/">http://library.thinkquest.org/C002942/</a> - ThinkQuest Silver Award Winner 2000
<a href="http://library.thinkquest.org/C0114989/">http://library.thinkquest.org/C0114989/</a> - ThinkQuest Achievement Award Winner 2001
<a href="http://iinteractive.host.sk">http://iinteractive.host.sk</a> - Infinity Interactive's Web Site
<a href="http://www.money-cam.com/">http://www.money-cam.com/</a> - MidnightMedia's Web Site
<a href="http://www.protek-bg.com/">http://www.protek-bg.com/</a> - Protek - Distributor of Chesterton® Web Site
<a href="http://compax.starazagora.net/">http://compax.starazagora.net/</a> - "COMPAX" JSC Web Site
<a href="http://sites.schools-bg.net/SZag-Rrolland/">http://sites.schools-bg.net/SZag-Rrolland/</a> - FLS Romain Rolland's Web Site
<a href="http://zmej.virtualave.net/">http://zmej.virtualave.net/</a> - A small non-profit educational project
<a href="http://sz.inetg.bg/">http://sz.inetg.bg/</a> - The site of ISP Internet Group
The links below are some script I have made publicly available:

<a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex9/encrypter.htm">http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex9/encrypter.htm</a>
<a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex11/scrolleffect.htm">http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex11/scrolleffect.htm</a>
<a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex11/pathgenerate.htm">http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex11/pathgenerate.htm</a>
<a href="http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/9155.html">http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/9155.html</a>
<a href="http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/10142.html">http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/10142.html</a>
<a href="http://html.tucows.com/programmer/scriptarchives/jsarchive/svetcompiler.html">http://html.tucows.com/programmer/scriptarchives/jsarchive/svetcompiler.html</a>

  Of course each of these are available at the clients section at the Infinity Interactive's site at http://iinteractive.host.sk/clients.php/

  Thank you for reading this and looking forward to hearing from you.

  Best Regards,

Svetlin Staev
CEO & Head Developer
Infinity Interactive
"Create your reality with us"
<a href="http://iinteractive.host.sk</a>