I'm an aspiring freelance designer situated in Melbourne, Australia; some of you may recognise me as Lightning from yaXay/WHT. I found this site via Google, it looks like a great resource. In terms of experience, I've been designing/coding for about 3 years now and in the past few years have gotten into PHP, too.
You can see some of my recent work here: http://www.dhruvbhatia.com . I should warn you, though, most of those are first revisions and are still WIP, so that's certainly not the limit of my creativity.
I look forward to expressing my skills, entering contests and discussing design-related topics with the other members in this community in the near future. I'm sure I'll like it here.

Dhruv B.