The World Wide Web provides all of the same design challenges as any conventional product--usability, performance, feature lists, client constraints, aesthetics...

Yet it is far easier to take a web-based design to the real world. Whereas a physical product can take tens, or even hundreds, of thousands of dollars and months or years to bring to market, a website can be online for under $100 and in less than a week. I have enjoyed exploiting this flexibility to practice design, and have designed, implemented and/or maintained a half-dozen websites (including this one, of course).

I have been personally connected to all of the websites I have worked on, through friends, family and employers.

Until very recently, I hand-coded my sites, keeping them text-based and very simple. I now use state-of-the art tools such as Macromedia's Dreamweaver.