Hi.
My name is Mark Whitcher. I am a designer, illustrator, and web developer based in Pensacola, Fl.
In 2007, after serving as a designer at A Beka Book for over 13 years, I developed a hosted web publishing system to allow me to do freelance web design work from home. Doing freelance work has definitely been a life-changing experience; I am looking forward to seeing where God allows me to go in this work.
My work environment
I build web applications in ruby on rails using two tools for web development—Textmate and CSSEdit. For graphics work I use the Adobe Creative Suite.
I use a Mac exclusively (even for Windows work, which only includes browser testing).
A few websites I am involved with
net-at-hand.com
Net-at-hand is the hosted web publishing system that I created after realizing that there are many people who do not live on the internet all day long (like I do) who would not have a simple way to create and maintain a website. So I built a system that would do just that and am positioning it with people who would otherwise not know where to start.
The system comes with many web designs that I have created, but I can also build custom designs for clients. This approach gives those clients the best of both worlds, a great-looking website that is unique to them that is super-simple for them to maintain themselves.
Missionary Blogging
This site is a series of articles for the purpose of showing missionaries how to create effective blogs for communicating with churches back home. This site is an ongoing project and one that I hope will be successful in the long run.