My name is Patrick McNeil and I am a St. Louis based web developer. Many people mistake me for a designer because of my blog Design Meltdown, my book series The Web Designer's Idea Book or my monthly column in .net Magazine; but really I am more of a developer then anything. The perception is easy to understand though since I love design so much.
In particular I love front end work. Sometimes slicing up designs for sites I am building, and at times building assets to hand off to other developers. Either way, this is what I have a passion for; delivering extremely effective transitions from design to code. Language wise I tend to gravitate to asp.net, but have recently started to embrace PHP; primarily out of a need for WordPress.
A huge perk for me is a formal training in the arts and many years of reviewing web design. This plays out in my day to day development as I have the opportunity to directly impact the quality of the end product. I get really inspired by great design and it always leads me to cleaner more effective code. And of course, as a front end developer every project will have the opportunity to extend a design in ways unforeseen by the designer.
And of course I somehow fell into writing. Certainly not what I ever expected (or even wanted for that mater), but it has become something I really enjoy. Between the blog, the book(s) and the magazine articles it's amazing I have anything left to say.
And yeah, I did use a theme to make this landing page. Call me lazy, call me lame, but you can't call me siteless.