Lesley Hills

By the 1990’s I was already designing manufacturing control systems at work mainly in VBA for Microsoft Office and invested in an Open Learning course, doing my City & Guilds in Computer applications programming in Turbo Pascal, then moving on to Cobol. But exciting changes were on the technology horizon, the arrival of the internet in the 1990s saw me signing up with AOL for a super fast 56kb dial-up connection. I was fascinated by the WWW and by the late 1990s I had my first mac and was experimenting with very simple table based HTML web design and had created my first commercial web sites.

Another exciting development was coming in 2001 with the arrival of triplets, it was no longer a viable option for me to continue working night shifts as a team leader, so after major financial soul searching I finally took the plunge and went self-employed as a web designer.