Me! (Abridged.)
Edinburgh-born, London-based, photo-snapping, foot-stomping, music-loving, gig-going, computer-game-playing, web-mongering, quiet-speaking, loud-laughing, terminally-curious, rabidly-relativistic, hyphen-abusing muppet.
I'm at a computer as often as not, though; whether designing or developing websites, tinkering with photos, playing games, trawling for trivia, firing up iplayer, fishing through itunes or chatting on messenger. Usually three or more of the above, simultaneously. I'm online a lot.
I'm also pretty snap-happy, and for as long as I've had a blog I've also taken a nifty point-and-click to hundreds of various and sundry social events. It's fun but leaves me with a lot of photoshopping to do and a horrendously unwieldy mountain of photos and a lot of swearing at facebook uploader.
For a more profession point of view check out the CV page
Perpetual Beta
This site is the web presence, playground and some-time blog of DAN GOVAN (the clue's in the name). It's somewhere to practice jQuery, CSS3 and probably some HTML5 when I get around to it. Apologies if things break, move about or just look ropey, developing on live is the best way I've found to keep things ticking along. Oh also I get to pretend to be a web designer! This is the sixth (implemented) design, not to mention the seventh url and the eighth year of my homepage / website / slice of net-pie. Good times.
Ye olden days
In 2002 I knew nothing about the web, but I had a guest spot on a friend's blog and fell into looking after a uni website. One thing lead to another and I called my first personal website "Myncboi". "Monkey boy" was my phrase du jour and with that peculiar spelling it didn't have any google entry at all! Win! I blogged and posted photos that I took at uni events and nights out, which proved pretty popular popular with friends, acquaintances and curious randoms in those heady pre-facebook days.
I was hooked.
After uni I gave the whole thing its third redesign and first total overhaul as part of teaching myself more about web design and development, while re-branding as the easier-to-spell "Mochaholic". That lead to a couple of freelance gigs, and from that I managed to land an actual bonafide career in front-end development!
I decided that as a professional I should have a 'real' website, so I went back to the drawing board again with a minimalist, css-focused design and so "dangovan.com" was born. This is the second version of that site, building on the original look-and-feel with consolidated content from all my past websites plus various jquery bells and whistles. These days the blog takes a back seat as Facebook and tweets have long since taken over the communication aspect; so the focus is now on links and APIs to those and other social networking sites, drawing some of their content onto my homepage.
(Also: I used FrontPage then DreamWeaver before I discovered hand-coding and used Blogger then Movable Type and then Expression Engine for the blog backend, but that's a little bit dull.)
Contact
Being a native of the web I tweet on twitter a lot, put pictures on flickr when I can, listen to music as often as not, and have profiles on linkedin and facebook.
However if none of those apply, you can always grab me by email at "daniel dot govan at gmail dot com".