Welcome
to my little home on the web.

    Well, here I go again. I had to go and try to put into practice some of the things I have been learning since I left school, just over a year ago.

Wow...Check it out.
    This is the twelfth(12) version of my website. An even dozen, now. LOL It's sure been a long time since I've used this logo on my very first personal website.

   I have posted all the source files for this website, at the SWiSHZone Forums as a free download for the online community. I've learned a lot in those forums, and thought I could go and give something back. Maybe someone will learn something from it.

Personal Notes

Has been working day labor jobs for the past couple months. It is the only thing keeping me from being homeless.

My cell phone is most always out of minutes so the best way to contact me these days is thru my email. Just fill out this form.

Site Features

This site created with SWiSHMax2
    Ok, the goal here is to take what I have and work it all into a useable, attractive website. I personally would like to go for a clean look, and still create a good content layout that utilizes the white space the best. After 20 years in the offset printing industry as a press operator, I've seen a lot of page layouts in print and it seems that I should try to base this website layout on that knowledge, even if it is a simple page layout.

    As with several of my past projects, Carmex Lip Balm, and my own v11_1 of FlawlessDog.com, this site features the SWFAddress. I really do like that bit of script, as it feeds right into my interest in a good flash navigation system. I've had a bit of practice using this script, and I think I have improved somewhat. You can find most all of the work I done with SWFAddress, at the SWiSHZone forums.

    I have learned to create the pages a bit more dynamically, so I am no longer using the timeline based system in the beginner examples that can be found on Asual's samples page. In this example, the entire nav system structure is created and controlled from the menu xml.

    In addition, this site is far better Search Engine Optimized ...I hope... I tried to base this on the SEO example provided by Asual in the examples folder. However, I wanted to create a version that wasn't written in PHP, but instead was written in html...Ummm...for no other reason than to see if I could do it LOL...
Anyway...all the content is written in the index page of the site. It seems to work ok, but could do with a few more hours work.

    Also, I am playing around with stage management to a greater extent in this version of my website. This also includes the use of a scrollbar to handle content overflow. The scrollbar should work pretty much like any other; scroll wheel activated, up and down keyboard arrows as well as the page up, page down keys which will scroll the window a bit faster than the arrow keys. I am using a new formula to size the scrollbar itself so that is a more accurate ratio to the content height.