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About Daryn and Bloqhead.com

How I Got Started

Hey, its me.

Hey, it's me.

Hi there. My name is Daryn St. Pierre and I am a Web Developer, User Interface Designer and Graphic Artist living in Citrus Springs, Florida. As you might have guessed, I love to create. Aside from websites, I’ve also designed screen print, vehicle wraps, logos and print collateral. I have a degree in graphic design and computer science but the majority of my expertise was learned on my own.

I launched my first website around 2004 and have been working with web design since around 2001. In late 2005, I completely shifted my career over to being a full-time web developer and never looked back.

Elsewhere

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About This Website

Bloqhead.com was a replacment for my previous (now defunct) blog hybridlyrix.com and now serves as my primary spot for blogging, ranting, showing off my web development work and experimentation. This website was originally built on the CMS Made Simple CMS and now runs on the WordPress blogging platform. It uses an elastic layout written from scratch by yours truly and is optimized for 1024×768 resolution and higher.

When I’m Not Creating

When I’m not creating websites, I like to write and read various blogs, play Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii and play paintball. I’m also an avid Mac user, own a white G1 phone and support Android and open source. I was originally born and raised in Cape Cod Massachusetts and follow the Boston Red Sox avidly.

Applications I Use & Love

  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Dreamweaver
  • Adobe Flash
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Adobe Fireworks
  • Panic Coda
  • CSSEdit / Espresso
  • Cinema 4D XL
  • Final Cut Pro
  • Cyberduck
  • MAMP

Skills I Possess

  • CSS
  • XHTML
  • HTML5
  • jQuery
  • User Interface Design & Experience
  • Website Design & Deployment
  • Web Standards/Accessibility
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  • IT (cPanel, Plesk, bash, vi)
  • Graphic Design
  • Print Layout
  • Vector and Raster Manipulation

Resources

  • WordPress – This website runs on the WordPress PHP-driven blogging platform.
  • Komodo Media – Social icons on the Connect box freely provided by Komodo Media.
  • 32px Mania Iconset – 32 pixel icons seen throughout this website were provided via WebAppers and created by Midtone Design.
  • Fancybox – Simple and fancy jQuery lightbox plugin.
  • jQuery – This website uses the jQuery javascript library.