Hello. I am Jessica Fowler, a web developer that doodles, codes, and writes. Interested in working together?

About the Author

“I made my first web page in 1994. It was such a sexy beast (not).”

Jessica Ledbetter Jessica Fowler works full-time as a web developer for a research lab and likes loves what she does. She also is a web designer, graphic designer and web developer for various freelance projects in the Hampton Roads, Virginia area. Not only an adoring fan of web standards and accessibility, she enjoys photography, drawing, nature, cooking and reading. Because she’s in the “Web Is Cool” fanclub, Jessica Fowler can usually be found doing web foo in her free time, honing her skillset with classes and conversation.

• Professional Organizations
  • Williamsburg Adobe User Group, Book Manager
  • Association for Computing Machinery
  • World Organization of Webmasters
  • International Webmasters Association/HTML Writers Guild
• Honor Societies
  • Phi Theta Kappa
  • Omicron Delta Kappa
  • Upsilon Pi Epsilon
  • Sigma Tau Delta

Favorite Tools

Other than the usual suspects of Dreamweaver, Illustrator and Photoshop, I like to use:

• Firefox Plugins:
  • HTML Validator - basically shows a green checkmark if the page is valid
  • Web Developer - view css, show div breakup, and more
  • MeasureIt - measure sizes on screen; also can see if things really line up with taking screenshots
  • Firebug - inspect, fix, HTML/CSS bugs*
  • Sage - rss reader
• Delicious and Digg - social bookmarking sites
  

* Quickly becoming most used

About the Area

Hampton Roads is a gorgeous region in Virginia. I haven’t been able to find, however, a central location of all the tech events/clubs/foo. So here are a few things to get other technology fans started.

• Pretty Tasty! Tidewater’s Creative Kitchen forum - has events, job postings and critique areas
• Hampton Roads Adobe Professional User Group - if Williamsburg is too far, there’s an Adobe group in Virginia Beach
• AIGA Hampton Roads - I’ve been {this close} to joining this Norfolk-based club for years
• VECTEC calendar
• HRTC events
• Virginia’s CIT organization
• Hampton Roads AITP
• Peninsula Women’s Network - networking is good