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What is Crown Rock?

Crown Rock is my web design and development business

I also work with graphics and images

Photography includes landscapes, nature, people and dogs

Who am I?

I graduated from Indiana University, then from IU School of Optometry. I love challenges, learning and creating. In 2002 I discovered the challenges and rewards of creating websites. After taking many online courses from Ivy Tech I entered the Art Institue of Pittsburg Online Division. I earned a diploma in web design.

typing on a laptop

From 2010 to 2019 I created and maintained dozens of sites for individuals, organizations and businesses.

Steve Stout in bike helmet

In 2019 I moved to Colorado to be closer to family. I also enjoy the people, the evironment riding my bike on the many trails here in Fort Collins. I'm pursuing web development full time after completing the Full Stack Bootcamp with Nucamp.

Where have I been?

I love dogs and I bred Dobermans. In 2002 I needed a website to promote a new litter but I couldn't afford to hire someone. I bred for love of the breed, and the money was enough to offset the expenses. I've always had a "Can Do" attitude so I started researching what a website requires.

I found an app, 'Front Page', that was geared towards newbies with a drag and drop interface. Designing the site was fun, and I learned how to FTP to the server, putting my first site online in the fall of 2002. It was an OK way to get online but soon I became unhappy with the restrictions of drag and drop web builder apps.

In 2008 I took online classes to learn XHTML and CSS2. From that point I was 'hooked'. I fell in love with creating and manipulating web pages.

Then I spent the next 7 years taking classes, getting a diploma in web design. I built sites and I also took over maintenance of sites from webmasters who no longer wanted the job.

Starting in 2010 I learned the majority of Adobe apps and I still frequently use Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat Creative Cloud. That's allowed me to develop graphics and images for clients. I enjoy the creative aspects, yet I see coding to be the focus of my career future.

2016 was a great year for me because I discovered and learned Bootstrap. First I reinvented the Evansville Obedience Club site. Soon after I created a site for a client, Window Shopping Indiana.

What am I doing?

While I am chasing gaining experience in MERN development I still work in web design. After graduating from Nucamp in July 2020 I'm expanding my skills from the foundation Nucamp provide. I'm focused on Front End Development but understanding the Back End gives me a broader view of the entire project. Nucamp covered Bootstrap 4, React, React Native, Node.js, and MongoDB with Express

Boostrap Completion badge - Nucamp React Completion badge - Nucamp React Native Completion badge - Nucamp Node Express MongoDB Completion badge - Nucamp

My goal is to enjoy my work, while I produce web projects to meet standards, to exceed clients goals, and to be on the cutting edge of development. Personally, I want to contribute to society and to earn my place in a creative workforce. Life is a journey and I'm always reaching for the horizon while taking time to enjoy where I am.

Few, if any of us reach 100%.

We often use various resources to find information that isn't in our heads.

Skill Set


Development

HTML5
CSS3
SASS
JAVASCRIPT
BOOTSTRAP
PHP
REACT
jQuery
NODE
GITHUB
SQL
MONGO
WORDPRESS
VS Code

Adobe Software Tools

PHOTOSHOP
ILLUSTRATOR
ACROBAT
DREAMWEAVER

Design

TYPOGRAPHY
LAYOUT
COLOR
MOBILE
PHOTO MANIPULATION
ANIMATION

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