About Me

My name is Amelia Liarakos and I am a 18-year-old college student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech). I began my journey into graphic and web page design in 6th grade on Neopets. I wanted to change my shop so it looked cooler than just a white background and black text, so my brother gave me an HTML packet from which I started coding.

Shortly after my experimentation in Neopets, I opened a Geocities account and learned how to use images, tables, and CSS to create layout for my 10mb account. I eventually graduated from Geocities to free hosting as a sub-domain, to buying my very own hosting space and domain name. Amaryntos.net is my second domain name.

I am completely self-taught in HTML, CSS, MySQL, and Photoshop. I am currently learning more of the fundementals of PHP so that I can create more sopisticated sites that work dynamically instead of statically. Most of my self-teaching occured through reading tutorials and studying other people's code. At school, I have been exposed to Illustrator, Flash, and Bryce 3-D.

I plan to major in graphic design through college.