Hi y'all!

My name is Misty and I just joined the forum. I am looking forward to learning much about web design/development. I am currently a COBOL mainframe programmer for a large insurance company.

A year and a half ago I lost my job of 18 years at a major telecommunications company due to the outsourcing of the programming work to India. Since losing my job, I have become more and more discontent with mainframe programming (a mid-life crisis, I guess).

I have always loved to express myself artistically. I feel like web design would be a good outlet for that creativity while still making use of my programming experience.

I am currently taking an Intermediate Web Development class at a local college and am learning Microsoft Expression Web (the school was too cheap to purchase Dreamweaver). I am hoping though, that after learning Expression Web, that it will be an easy transition to Dreamweaver since that seems to be the tool most companies (including the one I work for now) uses.

I look foward to getting to know everyone. Happy Thanksgiving!!!!