Who The Hell is Dom Price?

A somewhat short career biography of a starving artist...

The details of my life are long and boring, so I'll try to condense the saga of my life into something more chewy.

2000-2001
I began experimenting with web development when I was sixteen. Most of the site I built around this time were no where near the skill that I am capable of today. I started out doing mostly fan pages for friends, and at the time I was an avid video game fan, and built fan sites for the various games I was interested in at the time.

It was around this time that I stumbled upon Newgrounds, a web site showcasing flash works by a rather eccentric man by the name of Tom Fulp. Tom became somewhat of an idol to me, and I made it a point to emulate him. He and I forged a somewhat casual business relationship, exchanging ideas and the like. I posted many of my works on his flash "portal" once it became automated. Most of my earlier flash work was a hodgepodge of original cartoons and "Assassin" games created for Tom's Assassin game section at Newgrounds. At this time I really had not yet found out where I wanted to go with my skill, so I more or less copied what everyone else did to get a feel for what I was capable of. Once I began to discover my talent, I began to produce more original works.

I started Mobiusfactor.com early in 2000. It became more or less a showcase for my flash work and articles. I formed a partnership with Newgrounds which ultimately led to business proposals with Troma INC. the independent film company that hosted Tom's site. Troma had taken interest in some of my more eccentric works and wanted to host my web site for free, provided that I hand over the rights to my work. Although I was hurting very badly for quality hosting for my behemoth of a web site, I wasn't too happy with their rather lengthy contract. This didn't fare well with my parents either, so after consulting a few friends I sought legal advice from a Lawyer and ultimately rejected Troma's offer.

I was still pained for quality hosting. At the time I was hosted by BizLand, a rather shitty and craptastic host that I honestly can't recommend to anyone. It was free though, so I had to make do with what I had. At the time I also began experimenting with PHP and more advanced flash techniques. Since PHP wasn't available on Bizland, I needed a new host to move forward.

In early 2001, I began a relationship with Squished Mosquito INC, who at the time was marketing the Escapade server side scripting engine. SMI set me up with quality hosting and i began integrating Escapade into Mobiusfactor's infrastructure. Escapade performed much more beautifully than PHP, and it still remains my Server Side Scripting Language of choice to this day.

2002-2003
With powerful tools such as PHP, MySQL and Escapade at my command, I began to move away from Flash and looked more toward other forms of media. I began to focus more on writing and satire as a creative medium rather than animation, although I still dabbled in it from time to time. Mobiusfactor slowly transformed into more of a community than a showcase. With the addition of a User's section and Forum, I saw the need to take on a partner.

The job of daunting task of updating Mobiusfactor's growing list of posters fell upon myself and my best friend Ian Hill. However, the partnership became shaky when Ian and I started to disagree on where we wanted Mobiusfactor to go. Ultimately, Ian quit and I took on a new database administrator, my friend Shawn Jones.

Late in 2002, I started college at the University of West Florida as a Computer Science major. I decided that being a piss broke nineteen year old was not fun, so I began offering ad space on Mobiusfactor to cover budget shortfalls. It was my first venture into the world of E-commerce, as I now had to learn how to effectively sell services to individuals, keep books, tax records and all the good stuff that came with being self employed. Eventually, advertisers took advantage of Mobiusfactor's five digit daily traffic and we started earning some revenue.

In early 2003, Shawn and I began to focus on writing articles, both of us being politically minded. It was a mating of polar opposites, Shawn being a libertarian, and myself being a bleeding heart liberal. I fine tuned my wit, so to speak, and wrote articles that made sense of nonsense. Ultimately, users began to submit articles, and I took some of them on as Associates and gave them a cut of ad revenue, sparse though it was. So sparse in fact, that I was forced to take a day job at McDonalds just to pay bills.

Having to take a day job ultimately spelled the beginning of the end of Mobiusfactor. Shawn, who was working at Lowes at the time, began to run out of time to update the site, and myself, working 25 hours a week and attending classes full time, no longer had time to update Mobiusfactor. We made do for a while, but by the end of 2003, we no longer had any steam to move forward.

2004 - Present

I decided that it was time to look elsewhere for work, knowing I would never be satisfied working at an average, run of the mill job. Mopping up puke was a complete waste of my talent, so I embarked on a quest, putting my resume into every web design firm in town. I was laughed out of some for being "over qualified". Apparently an applicant as young as me at my skill level was something unbelievable. A chance application for a sales job at Best Valu Computers in Pensacola changed everything, when the owner gave me a job as a web designer and server administrator for his web sites. I was finally earning professional experience, and professional pay.

That summer, I went to Tucson to visit some friends, which resulted in the most awkward and frightening situation I had ever been in. When I returned I was offered another job by a small real estate firm to build their website. The plan never got off the ground though.

Shortly before Hurricane Ivan hit, I landed a job at Coco Design Associates, a local webdesign firm with connections across the country. After landing the gig I promptly quit McDonalds and began to do web design full time, professionally, and for a living. Around this time I began to branch out into other areas of practice. I have since become involved in to musical projects and have become an active member of the subculture in the Pensacola area. I have since ammassed a local (and loyal) client base who often ask me for help in various projects.