My first encounter with the web occurred while I was working for Unison Software. This was around 1990. I had digital pictures from our company picnic, and wanted to share them with the company. This was before today's explosion of commercial digital cameras. I shot video which I was able to digitize. It was only 640x480 at 8 bits, but in those days sending images on the Internet was somewhat controversial. Quite a few people thought that images used too much bandwidth. In those days the "high-speed" backbone which ran from Washington University in Saint Louis to the University of Illinois in Urbana/Champaigne was 56 Kbps. That's 56 KILOBITS per second.

We had been using a piece of software from UIUC called Mosaic. The lead engineer for that project was Mark Andreeson, who later founded Netscape. A scientist from CERN, Tim Berners-Lee, had recently improved upon the gopher proctocol from the University of Minnesota and created the World Wide Web. I thought this would be perfect for sharing our company picnic photos. So I downloaded and built NCSA httpd 1.0 from the National Center for Supercomputing Architecture and taught myself html.

Since then I have designed many web sites, most of which are long gone. There are a couple I'm quite proud of. One is the Noli n Nali web site pictured on the right. It's all hand-coded (using vi 'cause I'm an old-timer) using php, which I learned for this project.

Another is the web site for the band Caravan. It's based on an old-fashioned car radio with radio buttons. If you're young, you won't recognize it. If you're old enough, please note the simulated walnut grain of the dashboard.

I make extensive use of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator in creating my web sites. I currently use Creative Suite 4. I also use the GIMP (Gnu Image Processor) which has some wonderful tools. I make extensive use of javascript and use Java wherever applicable. I also use PHP and MySql for dynamic pages.

Please feel free to email me if there is some way I can assist you with your web site.