Welcome to www.ROMELO.com. My name is Romelo Itong and this is my Online Portfolio. Through the years, this website has undergone a lot of changes like starting as a static HTML site then moving to a database driven site using ASP and MS Access, as a site using PHP includes into a Postnuke powered site and finally as a site powered by Joomla into Wordpress. The changes made to this site also reflects the changes in my interest. I can safely say that it is a mirror of who I really am.

Website Design services are as common as the common cold but those who caters to small/medium enterprises, start-ups, NGOs and individuals are still very rare. This is where I come in.

I will design you a website at a fraction of the cost of what your normal design agency charges. It’s fast, inexpensive and you work directly with the designer himself.

I am a web designer based in the Philippines with more than 5 years experience designing websites both for local and international businesses.

Themes or Templates are very common to popular content management systems like Joomla or blogging programs like Wordpress. I can either help you customize an existing theme/template or help you create a new one with a design custom made just for you. Please view my Portfolio to see some samples of themes and templates I designed. You can also visit my blogs for your further review.

• Kabalyero
• San Pablo City
• MMORPGREALM
• i-TONG

Graphics are very important to a website because it gives the website color and life. I can help you design banners, headers, buttons, etc. for your website. If you need someone to customize existing graphics then I can also help you with that.

• Website Maintenance
• Wordpress or Joomla installation and setup
• Print Design

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Freshly Made

The following are some of my latest designs.

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Archives

Blast from the past!

Hostmanila

A collection of some websites I designed for Hostmanila. The good, the bad and the beautiful. Spanning almost 3 years of designing for Hostmanila.

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Archives

A collection of some designs from the past. Websites, Postnuke Themes, Joomla Templates, Ebay Templates, etc.

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Design Studies 2007

A collection of some website design studies I created for 2007.

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My mailing address is:

Romelo Itong
Sgt. Luis De Roma Street,
San Pablo City 4000,
Laguna, Philippines
+63495628059

My Instant Messenger IDs are:

• Yahoo Messenger: romelo.itong@yahoo.com
• MSN Messenger: romelo.itong@gmail.com

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My full name is Romelo Jimenez Itong, a web designer with almost seven years experience designing and developing websites. Presently, I am residing at San Pablo City, Laguna, Philippines. Yes, I am a Filipino. I am also happily married with three of the best kids you could ever ask God for. I am a college undergraduate (nothing to be ashamed of) but, I am still looking forward to finishing and ultimately graduating. Maybe not today, it may not even be in the near future . All I can guarantee is that I will finish my college education and graduate but as of the moment my main goal is to provide for my family.I started designing websites 5 years ago when internet access was still new in San Pablo City. If I am not mistaken, the first ISP (Internet Service Provider) in San Pablo City was VYP-MSC. By the way, I took up two computer courses at VYP-MSC Computer Training Center. The courses were FCO (Fundamentals of Computer Operations) and CTC (Computer Technology Course). So, being the only ISP they were the only one who offers internet access through their computer shops Data Exchange 1 and 2. I used to hang-out at Data Exchange 2 which was managed then by Roy, who is a friend of mine.

The Internet was a very new technology for me and as I surfed and browsed countless web pages of different websites, I became more and more fascinated by it. My interest to learn this new technology became stronger and stronger.

My study began by downloading tutorials from different websites who offered them. Back then, my main resource for tutorials were Webmonkey and Web Developers Virtual Library. Now, I have countless of resource websites for tutorials. My favorites are Dynamic Drive, About.Com, DHTML Central, PHPBuilder, ASP 101, Flash Kit and many more.

I tried to learn everything HTML, CSS, Javascript but I concentrated mainly on design. My first designs looked really terrible, if it was viewed today but back then to me it was already a work of art. My technique was to draw the table by hand and layout how the information will be displayed or viewed. After I am done and happy with the layout I start coding it in HTML, manually, using Notepad. WYSWIG Editors were not yet available and the ones that were available were not easy to use. That was how I design webpages back then.

My technique in designing webpages changed when I came across the PEPSI website. I was awed by the graphics and images used and I wondered how it was done. A book I purchased said that you could use Photoshop to design webpages and so I did. I studied how to use Photoshop, how to use it to design webpages and how to slice or convert the graphic I created or designed into HTML. From then on I use Photoshop to design websites.

Working at Morningplanet Philippines, Inc. I was introduced to a server technology which is much easier to use than CGI/Perl which is run on a Unix server. The technology was Microsoft’s IIS and ASP. ASP is a MS technology that enables you to create dynamic webpages or database driven websites.

It is easy to learn because it’s native scripting language is VBScript which is a slim down version of Visual Basic. The guys at Morningplanet were all ASP Programmers and seeing how effective and in demand dynamic websites are than static websites, I became interested in it. Now, I can create dynamic websites using ASP. My ASP Programming skill is still not that developed but with lots of practice and patience it will be that is if I had continued working and coding with ASP

My design skills were also greatly enhance at Morningplanet. I was able to worked with one of the country’s great designer, Bhong Capiña of BHONG.COM, I also absorbed a lot of creativeness from the designers that I worked with and I learned the different styles of each one.

Today, I am at home working as a Freelancer. It’s tough but it’s fun.

My Brief Resume

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