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title: Meet Your Host - Mike Mella
date: 2022-01-25T05:00:00-05:00
author: Sean Smith
canonical_url: "https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-2/meet-your-host-mike-mella/"
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## Meet Your Host - Mike Mella

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Sean interviews Mike about his journey to becoming a web developer

<a name="show-notes"></a>### Show Notes

- Bootcamps / college
- Started with Macromedia Flash
- Mike was a drummer in 4 different bands - learned web development to build the band websites
- First website built for his band in late 90s
- First client site - restaurant (February 2000)
- First job was web developer at a magazine publisher
- Build tools
- Design vs Development preferences
- Advice for new web development

### Show Links

- [Mike's first client website - wayback machine](https://web.archive.org/web/20010402044843/http://www.merchantmanpub.com/)
- [Adobe Image Ready](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_ImageReady)
- [CSS Zen Garden](http://www.csszengarden.com/)
- [SASS](https://sass-lang.com/)
- [Tailwind CSS](https://tailwindcss.com/)
- [Grunt](https://gruntjs.com/)
- [Alpine Js](https://alpinejs.dev/)
- [Vue](https://vuejs.org/)
- [Petite Vue](https://github.com/vuejs/petite-vue)
- [jQuery](https://jquery.com/)

Have a question for Sean, Mike, and Amanda? [Send us an email](/contact).

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- 1 [ Meet your Host - Sean](https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-1/meet-your-host-sean/)
- 2 [ Meet Your Host - Mike Mella](https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-2/meet-your-host-mike-mella/)
- 3 [ Wes Bos - Your Web Boss](https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-3/wes-bos-your-web-boss/)
- 4 [ Tailwind CSS with Adam Wathan](https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-4/tailwind-css-with-adam-wathan/)
- 5 [ Starting my own Website with Bill Campbell](https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-5/starting-my-own-website-with-bill-campbell/)
- 6 [ CSS is Awesome with Kevin Powell](https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-6/css-is-awesome-with-kevin-powell/)
- 7 [ Meet Your Host - Amanda](https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-7/meet-your-host-amanda/)
- 8 [ 11 Things to avoid doing on your website](https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-8/11-things-to-avoid-doing-on-your-website/)
- 9 [ Vanilla Javascript - Fundamentals before Frameworks](https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-9/vanilla-javascript-fundamentals-before-frameworks/)
- 10 [ Hiring Junior Devs and How to Stand Out from the Crowd](https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-10/hiring-junior-devs-and-how-to-stand-out-from-the-crowd/)
- 11 [ AlpineJS with Caleb Porzio: Lightweight javascript in your markup.](https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-11/alpinejs-with-caleb-porzio-lightweight-javascript-in-your-markup/)
- 12 [ Contract Opinions From Not a Lawyer](https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-12/contract-opinions-from-not-a-lawyer/)
- 13 [ Talking to a New Dev](https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-13/talking-to-a-new-dev/)

### All Seasons

- [Season 01](https://website101podcast.com/season/01/)
- [Season 02](https://website101podcast.com/season/02/)
- [Season 03](https://website101podcast.com/season/03/)
- [Season 04](https://website101podcast.com/season/04/)
- [Season 05](https://website101podcast.com/season/05/)
- [Season 06](https://website101podcast.com/season/06/)
- [Season 07](https://website101podcast.com/season/07/)
- [Season 08](https://website101podcast.com/season/08/)
- [Season 09](https://website101podcast.com/season/09/)

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