Rowen Atkinson
This is me, I work on the web.
I work at Wesley Mission Sydney as Web Development Team Leader, which is a high falootin' title which means I do whatever crosses my desk. I do CMS build and maintenance, server maintenance, application support, website updating, photoshop stuff, even a bit of photography when I can talk my way into it. I also act as the bridge between the tech-types and the marketing-types in the organisation. I work in Sydney and Wollongong. It's fun. I work with some of the best in the business.
I started messing with the web in 1993. A small part of the then Internet got opened up to the Aminet. Back then it was just a bunch of Monty Python scripts, and because there was no Google we had to use Gopher. Gopher sucked. But it delivered the Python.
My first website was in 1995, which was "optimised" for the then new Netscape 1.1, which allowed background tiles. It was all very exciting.
I spent 1995-1999 messing with animated gifs, image maps and javascript status bar hacks. Pages were linear, had hardly any markup and were coded in Notepad.
In 1999 I discovered MS Frontpage, and the really shameful part of my web history began. Nested tables, spacer gifs, "optimised for IE, 800x600", if it looked good on my screen it was good, etc etc. It's shameful now, but we all did it. Indeed, many still are.
In 2001, Cade turned me on to Web Standards, and between 2001 and 2004 I matured in CSS and XHTML. My pages are again linear and coded in notepad (well, OK, HTML-Kit) and they again have little markup. But they display in a variety of shapes, sizes and browsers.
I've burned up the interwebs as an on-and-off blogger and flickr addict. RSS changed my life. Firebug is the greatest thing ever.