I started designing my website in 1996, using Netscape Composer, hoping to create an event planning service in Portland, Oregon, due to my interest and success in creating theme parties. This business venture never went beyond the site design, so I decided to refocus my site on my piano teaching practice and my musical theatre work.

A link on a piano education site led a student to me from Switzerland. The student traveled to Portland to study with me intensively for eight weeks. A few months later, I acquired the brenna.com domain name, which made my site easier to find.

I began getting occasional e-mails from fellow "Brennas". As web technology and search engines improved, and more people got online, I began getting several e-mails a day. Most of these expressed delight that the writer had found another Brenna. Enough of these expressed such disinterest in my professional credits (and questioned "where is the stuff for the rest of us?") that I began to consider creating another site for my musical work, and changing the focus of brenna.com.

In August, 2001, BrennaSage.com was born, and brenna.com was began to change into the site you see today. In September, 2001, I started the Brenna Store, with a single design, the "get it right!" shirt. Since the store opening, I have added ten additional designs and will continue adding more. I also hope to be able to offer things like pencils, pens and keychains soon.

I now use Macromedia Dreamweaver for my web authoring, which enables me to include java-scripting (that neat effect when the image changes when you roll the pointer over the image, for one thing), and upload my pages all within one program. I have wanted to learn Flash programming for quite sometime, and am just beginning to learn the program.

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