I graduated from one of those 2 year colleges for graphic design after a bit of a rough patch in life. I worked for a while in another field but went to work doing web design for a SEO in 2011. It was then that I was introduced to CMS. I started working on Joomla websites for him and build my designs in Joomla for the first few years. I had previously been building in html, so I did have some good knowledge about coding.
After a couple years building and setting up the On Page SEO for this guy we had a falling out when he accused me of some things to some friends of mine. I always knew he was a bit kooky but didn't expect anything to come of it.
It was then that I began doing more for myself as far as SEO goes. I had been getting my own site ranked for some things like logo design and photo editing in Houston around the end of 2013 I made it on the first page with some fiverr spam.
Since this humble beginning I've grown my web design knowledge and SEO skills by leaps and bounds and now run a fairly successful SEO company and SEO blog.