My first introduction to computers came when my grandparents allowed me to play with a Commodore 64. I grew up with monochrome monitors and 64KB of RAM being considered a luxury. I've seen the Operating System go from Dos to Windows 7 with every iteration in between. I remember perusing the Internet when you had to do it by command line and Gopher, not Google, was the "search engine" of the day.
I am web / graphic design consultant who has attended a few classes, but mostly taught myself about HTML, Dreamweaver, Photshop, PHP, MySQL, ASP.Net, and whatever else I've needed to know to live and survive in the Internet age.
I know too much about ...
Computers, horses, and interesting tidbits of information.
My childhood ambition ...
Writing a novel series and directing a major motion picture.
Why I write ...
Becasue I want my voice to be heard.
My inspiration ...
"You know, sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left." - Itzhak Perlman
There is an old adage that says “Never assume. It makes an ass of you and me.” This is especially true with browsers and how they display web pages. Even though there are standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to help facilitate and promote consistency between web sites, the differences between the various browsers and the hardware / operating systems that they are running on can lead to some very interesting and unexpected results. Most of the time, it is layout, or the position and size of the text and graphics on the page, that is affected by the br...
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