“Who is this Jason guy, and how did he become the undisputed king of popcorn ceiling removal?” Well, I can't answer the second part of that question but I can tell you a little more about myself. I'm left-handed, a creative thinker, and art minded. I graduated from UCF with a degree in Graphic Design, I recently wrote a book for Sitepoint about Webdesign, and I'm an artist in my spare time (lol, “spare time”). Pretty cut and dry, right? Well, I've also got a tech side. I started my own BBS in 8th grade, I like dismantling electronic devices, I once considered computer science as a possible major, and I ended up getting a second degree in digital media from UCF. Fortunately there's an occupation for people like me - web development.

As a graphic design student, I learned everything I needed to be a print designer, but I still prefer working with the web. I enjoy the challenges that the internet brings to the design table and appreciate the ever-changing nature of technology. I graduated in the spring of 2003, got married and moved to Gainesville where I worked as a web designer for Acceleration for almost 2 years. After that, I had the opportunity to work from home for Erickson Marketing Studio, a marketing and web development company in Arizona. Currently, I work as a web designer for Cyberwoven, a web development company in downtown Columbia, SC.

Amy and I were married happily ever after on July 19th, 2003. That however, is neither the end nor the beginning of our story. I've known and been good friends with Ames since high school. Even though I was a grade ahead of her we had a lot of mutual friends, we hung out together sometimes at lunch, and had lockers in the same hall my senior year. The thing I most remember about Amy from those days was my admiration for her organization. She had almost straight A's, was good at getting people together, and had EVERYTHING written out in her planner. In a last ditch effort to add some of that organization to my life before leaving for college, I actually borrowed her planner for a day so I could figure out just how she did it all.

We never did date in high school, we were just friends. Unlike many of my other high school friends though, we actually stayed in touch. Whenever I would come back to Vero during my first year at UCF, she would make sure something fun was going on. I think people started getting suspicious when I took her to her senior prom, but at that point, we really were just friends. She was and is a country music fan, so one day I suggested that she get some of our friends to get together and drive up to "8 Seconds" in Orlando for dinner and line dancing. She had a carload of people who said they would go, but at the last minute everyone bailed. She ended up coming up on her own, I took her out to dinner at Don Pablos, we danced, we kissed - and we didn't even talk about it till the next day. That was our first "date" and the rest is history.

Amy is still the most organized and logical person I know. In the Fall of 2004, she finished up her undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida, and in Fall of 2005 she started on her PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of South Carolina. I feel like the luckiest guy in the world having her as my wife. She makes me a better person than I would be without her...even though I still couldn't use a day planner to save my life.

A journal of art, thoughts, & projects.

Jasongraphix started as an online portfolio of artwork from my drawing & design classes back in 2002 and has been changing and evolving ever since. It began as a plain-jane, table-based html site on the "Pegasus" servers at UCF. Eventually I registered jasongraphix.com, signed up with my first real hosting company, and the world rejoiced.

There was something missing though. It needed - life. I toyed around with Blogger for a while back before it was bought by Google, and before the infamous redesign, but it just didn't meet my expectations. I decided at that point to write my own blog software in PHP and MySql. Although Amesnjas.com still runs on that software now runs on Wordpress :), I found myself wishing for a more dynamic publishing system for my personal site. In October of 2004 I decided to make a drastic change. I swapped hosts, migrated my database of posts to Movable Type, transferred my domain, and completely redesigned the site.

Jasongraphix is currently sporting a "Contemporary House" theme, coded in (mostly) valid Transitional XHTML, and CSS. It is powered by Movable Type 3.1 and a MySQL database running on an Apache server at Dreamhost.