I wrote a little over a month ago about finding my first niche. As I said, it worked out for my for a while, but MySpace got big and snatched that market right out from under me. To be honest, it was time for me to move on anyway. My skills were getting better and I was ready to create real business solutions for real businesses. So I had to figure out what my next niche would be.

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It was my first semester at college that I realized if I wanted to continue getting freelance jobs, I’d have to hone my web design skills. Up until that point, I was working in FrontPage, and hand coding some HTML to get the hang of it. I was also offering some awful (really bad) graphic work. It was at my work study job that I met my friend Stephen Mekosh, who introduced me to CSS, PHP, and a whole mess of resources to keep myself afloat in an always changing industry.

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