Aranaeum Design was established circa 2004 when I made my first foray into professional, commercial web design. From 2001 onwards I schooled myself in web design, running several non-profit community-based web sites. Creating these web sites I taught myself all the necessary technologies - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and others - that I would later draw upon to create websites for others.
I'm a proponent of semantic, open-web technologies, and all the websites I create reflect this; I work to establish web standards ensuring websites are accessible cross-browser to ensure that all visitors can use the website. There are many emerging web technologies; where possible all technologies used are backward compatible, but where this is not possible in older browsers I ensure graceful degradation so that the website is still functional for everyone.
Aranæum — for those curious — is named for a stylised rendition of the Latin word araneum or spider's web. That's æ, or the letters a and e, pronounced the same as in the words encyclopaedia or athenaeum.