Chris Abbott is better known as Foster Web Marketing's "Super Coder". From the day he started with FWM, only a little while ago, he's been working hard to breathe new life and techniques into our production processes and websites we produce. His meticulous attention to detail and pursuit of perfection with his craft is second to none.  He brings energy, fun and goofiness into the office every single day.

Professional Experience
Chris has done some form of freelance graphic design and web work for 12 years now, going full-time at the beginning of 2008. Since his first HTML course in the fall of 1999 and publishing his first website by Christmas that year, web design has been one of his main passions.

Chris is an XHTML and CSS (Jedi) Master and has experience with many other languages and aspects of web development, such as web hosting, domain name registration, user interface and template design, W3C standards-compliance and semantic code, MySQL database manipulation, PHP and jQuery scripting, accessibility and search engine optimization, website and server performance configurations, web traffic and visitor analysis and more.

Fortunately, and perhaps because Chris is a Gemini, he also has a strong creative side in addition to the more rigid, analytical coding side. He was born an artist and has a great eye for creating aesthetically pleasing and good graphic design.

He diligently pushes himself to stay on the cutting edge of industry best practices and techniques to produce an excellent product, both for our clients benefit and to create something he is happy to put his
name on. Basically, if there is a better or cooler way of coding something for the web, he's driven to understand and implement it.

Learn More About Chris
Born in Bryan, Texas, Chris went to high school in Springfield, VA.  He headed back to Texas for college and was married to his wife Kate, now a speech pathologist for the Alexandria City school system.  After spending a few years in Black Hills region of South Dakota where his wife is from, they moved back to Virginia.  They have two children; Elanor who is 3, and Jason just celebrated his 1st birthday.  When he isn’t honing his coding skills, Chris is spending time with his family and enjoying the outdoors.

What You Might Find Interesting About Chris
Chris was trained by his father, Jack, who has 25 years experience, to build fine hand-crafted hardwood furniture. Chris bumped his middle finger into an edge jointer one time, and is proud to say he
learned his lesson and his fingertip made a full recovery.