Hello everyone!

My name is Casey L. Jones and I am from Houston, TX. I currently have received a law degree and have worked as a Litigation, Personal Injury, and Intellectual Property paralegal, but my true passion is art and design.

I've been designing websites 6 years and I've tinkered with graphic design for going on 8 years. I love everything about design and often do it even in my spare time. Most of my design skills are self-taught from researching techniques, completing tutorials and reading source code from websites I've admired. Feel free to visit my business website here.

Because I value education very highly I have decided to enroll in the Art Institute's Interactive Media and Web Design program. I will be completing my Bachelors degree in the near future and plan to enroll in Graduate School to obtain my Master's of Science in Educational Technology. My ultimate goal is to teach design within the college level.

I am currently teaching a few people privately in web design and development so I am happy to get adult teaching experience under my belt. I have previously taught special education in the elementary school level and can safely say that teaching mentally challenged children basic fundamentals is just as rewarding as teaching adults a trade to assist in a career change.

I am also the manager over at the world famous FreelanceSwitch Creative Community of over 700 creative professionals. FreelanceSwitch is owned and operated by Envato, formerly Eden Creative Communities, out of Sydney, Australia. Come visit us at http://forums.freelanceswitch.com.

I do a bit of photography and a very small sample of my photographs can be seen at http://www.cljphotography.com. My photos can be purchased as stock at http://www.dreamstime.com/

My personal website can be found at http://www.caseyjones.cc.

I have a few "pet projects" that I fiddle around with quite often. One is an educational game series for children ages 5-18. I'm also forming a Design Union of sorts called "Hire American Designers" in order to persuade businesses to keep work here in America. Also, I'm in the midst of creating a designer's dictionary of sorts called "Design Lexicon." And lastly, I'm in the midst of developing the website for a design community called "The Creative Christian."

I've been developing for the web for several years now and am still learning new tricks of the trade. That is the wonderful thing about web design and development; you always have something to learn. I love to help new designers hone their skills and develop their craft.

When I'm not working or studying I enjoy reading a lot and writing my own stories. I am currently working on a horror novel when/if I have spare time. I also enjoy traveling, visiting old cemeteries for awesome photo ops and antiquing throughout the small Texas towns.

I can speak enough foreign languages to officially label myself as a tourist in other countries and more than likely get me arrested in a small border town! ;-) I can speak quite a bit of French, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew and Greek and am currently beginning to teach myself some Arabic and Latin.

Programming languages I am much more fluent in are CFML, XML, JavaScript, ActionScript, Lingo, SQL, CSS, HTML, xhtml, PHP, & ASP. Needless to say, I'm fluent in geek speak!

I have 2 cats: Miss Prissy Pants and Pyrite; 4 dogs: Lolli- black lab, Peachey Pooh- Corgi, Asia Marie - very needy boxer brat and China - American Pit Bull Terrier. I also have a male Siamese Fighting Fish (Betta) named Perry von Winklestein and we happen to have another aquarium full of fish.

On a personal note, I have a really great boyfriend, Devon, who I adore and am supporting as he finishes his Chiropractic degree. I plan to use and abuse his degree when he graduates!

I am Jewish by heritage and Christian by faith. I am very in touch with my Jewish roots as well as an observant Christian. Because of my strong Jewish roots I tend to be fairly fluent in Yiddish. I do not include this among languages I speak since it isn't widely spoken. For those who are not sure what Yiddish is, if you have ever watched The Nanny with Fran Drescher, you've heard it. And more than likely you all speak more Yiddish than you know! :) This is mostly a heads up. If I forget and say something funny, just ask me for the English translation! :)