I'm Bonnie Nilsen and I've been creating websites since the early days of the web back in 1997. That's 25+ years of ever-increasing change in a field that is endlessly fascinating.
My first websites were John Shepherd Family, a personal genealogy site and Grandma's Graphics which both still receives hundreds of visitors every month.
How did I get here? Glad you asked.
I majored in Fine Arts/Photography in college and then worked for a publisher in New York. I went back to school when my daughters were teenagers, and desktop publishing was just getting started. That got me interested in computers. A few years later the world wide web took off and it was easy to bring all my design, photography and publishing skills into this new medium.