Hello! My name is Claude Swanson. I'm a lifelong resident of the Washington, DC area. I graduated from Montgomery College with Associates Degrees in Humanities and Applied Science in 1982. After a working career spanning 35+ years, I decided to go back to Montgomery College to pursue what it is that I love doing the most - designing and building beautiful, functional, useful and interesting web sites. I completed a Web Design Certificate program in the fall of 2018. I completed an Associates in Applied Science Program in Digital Media and Web Technology in May of 2020 and simultaneously earned the college's Web Development Certificate. I also hold certificates in Electronic Records Information Management, Microsoft Office Professional Suite, Advanced Written English, Global WebFocus Accounting Systems and Java Development. Through my most recent training I have become very adept at using the entire line of Adobe computing products and I have developed other skills including graphic design, computer programming and other various forms of digital art production and manipulation techniques. I have extensive training employing the most modern and widely-used tools in the industry such as HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Javascript and jQuery. I have also studied and make comprehensive use of back-end development tools such as SQL and Cold Fusion to bring even more functionality and interactivity to my web sites and applications by supplying them with the power of database computing. You can view and sample some of my work here on this Portfolio Site by clicking the link above or you can visit my web creation and application development site at: