About ArleyM

I’m a twenty-something web designer with lots to smile about.

My love of design probably started as a kid with crayons. I never stopped doodling (and can cite a very influential Charles Shultz interview as inspiration). It’s been nearly fifteen years since I made my first website on Geocities, and I never looked back. My love of design led me to Canadore College’s Graphic Design Production and a Post-Graduate certification in Interactive Multimedia. I graduated in 2003 just a hair shy of a perfect GPA.

My career has seen me as a freelancer, an in-house print designer, and a New Media Developer. In late 2006 I became engaged to (my now lovely wife) Kristi and I began Debut Creative to continue making websites while living in remote south-western Ontario. In 2010 I started working as a Web Designer at Thrillworks in Burlington.

My clients, peers and mentors have had some pretty amazing and humbling things to say about me, which you can read in my testimonials on the (now retired) DEBUT site.

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