About Me!

My fascination with computers started way back in the mid to late 1980s when I was in High School. I took a class called "Programming", which used the old TRS-80 computers from Radio Shack. Those computers used 5 1/4 inch disks to do anything and you had to program it to use it at all; not to mention that the green tinged monitors were connected to the keyboard.

Then in the middle 90s, I discovered the internet. Back then, you paid was an "internet service", once of which was Prodigy for me. In the late 90s, the internet became much more accessible; and sites on the web began to offer "Free Web Sites". One of those offering the free sites was Geocities, and that is where my love of creating websites and web pages was discovered.

From the first few (painful!) web pages I made, I learned a lot. HTML was used in places like wordpad to create the site, then you uploaded it and hoped that no links were broken. HTML was also used in the popular message boards, which is where I've met a lot of people I still call friends.

After a while, people I knew from my hobbies began to notice my personal websites; and many asked me to make sites for them. By this time, I had discovered a program called "Front Page", which was a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web page creation program. Since I already knew HTML, but wanted to make the sites faster, I would create them in the the WYSIWYG section and then go into the code section and clean up the codes that is extraneous and just bloated up the pages.

I enjoyed making sites for people, and even got to make and maintain a site for a Pro Wrestler named Scott Hall for many years. While I enjoyed making the sites, I thought that I might be missing out on things, so I decided to go back to school, something that I had not done for almost 25 years, and I chose American Oneline Intercontinental Institute, a respected university with dedicated professors and staff. It was there that I learned how advanced the creation of website had become.

More to be added later.....