About this Website

This website has been online since February 2009 although it went through many an iteration before I was happy enough with it to unleash it on the virtual world. The site was built on the popular Wordpress blogging platform with a few tweaks of my own here and there.

The website is always undergoing changes of some sort. I will be tinkering with the site and changing things as I feel since it it one of those rare opportunities for me to do whatever I want without intervention!

About Me

Tradition would dictate that I write this page in the third-person, but I find that approach to come across as somewhat pompous. My name is Mark Young. I am a 26 year-old web developer from St. Helens (located somewhere between Liverpool and Manchester in England).

I started getting involved in the web industry when I was 14 and have been professionally involved since age 16. As a child, instead of insisting I would grow up to be a famous footballer or astronaut, I always wanted to be a games programmer… and for some reason a pottery maker… not really sure where I got that one from. Anyway, that goal was what originally sent me down the path of coding. Once the internet had started to gain traction with everyday users I found my interest in web development and design growing and that is how we arrive at where I am today.

I work for a small business called Bitopia where I focus mostly on developing bespoke business systems and dynamic websites.

Most of the development I do nowadays revolves around PHP and MySQL. On the side I also dabble in a number of other technologies including Flash, C# and Ruby (on Rails).