About Me
Hi there. I'm Ben Carr and I'm a web developer and designer.
I'm currently employed as a User Experience Designer at Cstraight Media in Vienna, VA. I'm a graduate of James Madison University with a B.S. in Media Arts and Design (concentration in Interactive Media) and a minor in Technical and Scientific Communication.
When I'm not designing or writing code, I dabble in photography, catch up on the latest tech and design news and enjoy spending time with my family, friends, and beautiful wife, Sarah. I also tweet and Flickr, if you kids care for that sort of thing.
What I Do
In a nutshell, I design and build websites, and I like to think I use some pretty standard tools to make it all happen. I'm proficient in Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator, Acrobat, InDesign, Coda, Mac operating systems, iWork and Microsoft Office.
I'm also fluent in HTML, CSS, PHP, Wordpress and jQuery, and I'm strongly familiar with SQL and MySQL databases. And I always develop to Web Standards. I also dabble in photography.
Often what you don't know is just as important as what you do know. Acknowledging what I am incapable of helps to define the boundaries of my knowledge, and establish what I can accomplish.
Web design, to me, does not include the use of Adobe Flash as a structural component. Thus, I have a very limited knowledge of developing in Adobe Flash. Like many developers, I prefer to focus on browser-native technologies to develop my sites. I have a limited knowledge of video production and zero knowledge of motion graphics, 3D design and illustration.