Thanks to the folks who made the products and pages to the left. I love the internet and web standards. I'm able to use html I learned more than a decade ago and have it look like it's in a magazine. And the "View Source" command is invaluable. It's one thing that opened my eyes to the value of Open Source, lo these many years ago. I love being able to copy other people's methods, and synthesize them into my own creation. Oh and Safari's webkit is great. Even does drop shadows. At any rate thanks to all these tools and help, I wrote and marked up more than 35,000 words, created, and produced this site in three weeks. (One page CV available upon request.)

I tried, I really tried to make iWeb work. It's just not up to something like this. I found that as I put together the You're The Decider site, that it got creakier and creakier, and made separate css files for each page, so you couldn't change the look of the whole site with one edit. I probably should have gone silent with more of an explanation, but it was really my frustration with iWeb.

Just a writer

Of course, I'm not a real designer. I'm sure a real designer can use Illustrator and would make a front page illustration that was not just gradient fills. I bet some of my columns don't have properly set widths, or there's something terribly wrong somewhere, and that's all my munging, nothing to do with the original.

That's what specialization is for. And great co-workers. Who take your general idea and make it much better. And find out why the first image doesn't show up on the design evolution page in Firefox, but looks great in Safari, and maybe even tests in Internet Explorer, which I don't have, for obvious reasons. If you are on IE and find a problem, I'm only interested in your telling me about it if you mail me a solution to it, too. Thanks to Rand Hill, Chad Little, and Douglas Vincent, too, for leading Apple's CSS effort, and teaching me what it could do, so that when I actually learned CSS itself this month, I didn't have as huge a battle.

Oh, you can do whatever you want with my code. You will anyway. It's not like I've done anything especially interesting other than possibly not laying out the home page in boxes. Or making the color scheme more girly. The words and images, however, are copyright me, all rights reserved.