Hello and welcome once again to the second in the on-going series of interviews we're having with coders from around the web. This time, it's Jonno Riekwel, a young designer in Holland. As like last time, please leave all comments below and we'll get back to Jonno in a few weeks to send him the questions you ask.

First of all, Could you lead us through a brief history of youʼre life? Where you live, what you do?

Well, Iʼm Jonno Riekwel. Born in 1986 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Iʼve been a freelance website designer for over a year now.

How did you get started out on the web and what inspired you to get into coding?

A friend of mine decided to start designing websites but heʼs almost good at everything. So I though, not this time. I started learning Photoshop etc just to get ahead. To my surprise, I liked it. After designing for a while I thought it would be smart to be able to code the sites I created myself.

What languages do you code and which one do you think is more 1. powerful, 2. simple and 3. you enjoy more?

I only code HTML and CSS. I started with PHP a while back and that went OK but not great. Once it got more difficult I thought it would be better just to focus on HTML and CSS.

What sites do you use for inspiration and do you recommend any to our readers?

I canʼt of course name all 200 sites I follow but  I really recommend cssglobe.com and webcreme.com

Do you have any other hobbies? if so what are they and why do you enjoy them?

Well, I donʼt know if gaming is hobby but I spent a lot of time on my xbox. I think thatʼs gonna be over soon though. Photography is my new hobby now.

Do you run a PC, or a Mac, why?

Iʼve been using a Mac for almost 10 years now, but, 2 months ago I also bought a PC. (Just to check the websites in IE6 and his sucky brothers). I could  do that on my Mac but that would slow the whole thing down. Iʼve tried to code on a PC but the workflow is totally different than on my Mac. Iʼm at least 2 times faster on a Mac.

What software couldnʼt you live without and could you name 3 reasons?

CSSEdit - It speeds up the whole process. You can easily find problems, It kills some problems I have had with other CSS editors too.

Whatʼs the program you use to code in? What is so good about it?

For html I use Textmate. There isnʼt an app quite like it. Itʼs fast, easy and you can do almost everything with it. You can write less to get the same result as in other editors.

When you first started out, how did you promote yourself? If at all?

As a freelancer I knew enought people and could just ask around and tell them I was for hire, but before that I just randomly added people from design forums to IM and started talking to them, asking if they needed their designs coded. That got me a lot of work.

What was the first coding job you ever got?

The first coding job ever was for a friend of my mom. Including framesets, tables, font tags and marquees.

Finally, Where can we find you on the web, Be that you're twitter, portfolio or other?

You can find my portfolio on http://jonnotie.nl. Iʼm on almost every webservice with the username ʻjonnotieʼ. So, http://twitter.com/jonnotie, http://flickr.com/photos/jonnotie etc.