Personal/Professional Biography
My name is Martin Rusev and I am 25 years old web developer and graphic designer currently living in Bulgaria. I am involved in the web sphere since 1999. I trained my skills combining system support and web design, working for several small companies till 2001.
In 2002 because of university schedule and some other major structural changes in my live i forgot about programming, design and computers in general.
In late 2005 i was accidentally asked for web design advice. I promised to make little research about current web design
trends. With that research i discovered something amazing - new extremely fast evolving media.
And so it was very easy decision to return and work something I really enjoy doing in the past.
Development/Design
As web designer i am trying to create beautiful, useful web sites using techniques from classical graphic design and combining them with modern web design trends.
In addition to web design i am also seasoned web developer. Back in 1999 i began writing some scripts in Perl and playing around with Photoshop. So it is naturaly for me to continue evolving it that direction. Nowadays i am using PHP and Python as main programming languages. I am quite familiar with database design and optimization too.
When i write some back-end code i always use coding standards and try to keep things as simple as possible.
I have enough skills to create complex designs and when it is necessary i really do, but my personal approach is simplicity. I strive for the easiest possible web experience avoiding users frustration.
Philosophy
Whether observing new additions in CSS galleries, reading usability articles in my
favourite blogs or testing new coding techniques my main goal
is always to raise the bar higher and higher.
