About Me

My name is Kali Pappas, and I'm a web designer and college instructor based in California.

I taught myself how to hand-code HTML back in 1996, using SimpleText on my old Macintosh Performa. Since then, I've learned quite a bit more (and acquired much better computers!). I've served as an associate web producer, as a freelance designer, and as a non-profit website committee member in recent years. I am now proficient in web graphics creation, site direction, and a number of pertinent software programs.

My formal education is in political science, classical civilization, and law. I hold a B.A. and a Juris Doctor degree from U.C. Berkeley, and maintain an interest in intellectual property issues relating to the internet. I teach political science and western civilization at our local community college.

My design style is clean and eccentric, though I do like to experiment. I work with Macromedia/Adobe Dreamweaver and Fireworks, Flash (for drawings), Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, ImageReady, and various other programs. I build unique sites using CSS, XHTML, HTML, DHTML elements, javascript, php designs, php scripts (Gallery, CRE Loaded, Sphider, &c.), and more. I write and edit, too.

Various awards I've received over the years include:

Golden Web Award, IAWMB
Diamond Web Award, IAWMB
Way-Cool Site Award, BobStaake.com
Silver Award, Best of the Web for MacOS
GroundZero Design Award
Canonical Designs Award for Website Excellence

You can learn more about me at my personal site, strangegirl*com.