Read about my family and my home town of Kaikohe, Northland, New Zealand
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Read about my family and my home town of Kaikohe, Northland, New Zealand |
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Welcome to the Junk RoomHi there, this is my junk room, where all sorts of unrelated bits and pieces will be strewn all over the place. You can find some links here, somewhere. When I have sorted out enough then they will have their own home, but until then, this is where they will be. Before I took the plunge and set up in the Heartland Park neighbourhood of GeoCities, I didn't really know what to put on these pages, but once I had decided to just "do it", I have found it to be great fun. The trouble is I don't have enough free time to do everything. The time I spend here is time taken away from other things. Never mind, other things will just have to wait. I find I am now working hard at learning to create graphics as well, something that I did not do much with before, except a bit of playing around with graphics packages. Now I have a good reason to learn the tricks. I have started using Paint Shop Pro to create most of my own graphics. I know there are lots of free graphics out there just for the taking, and I have looked at a lot of them, and will keep doing so, but it is so much more satisfying to create my own, and have my individual site. A lot like an artist creating works of art, and having them on public display. The other programme I have settled on for creating pages is HomeSite3 (now unavailable) - a really easy to use HTML editor. I've since begun using Dreamweaver and Fireworks as my main programs. Help, I think I'm becoming an Internet addict. I used to spend 30 - 40 hours a month on line, all at sensible hours of the day, but since signing up with GeoCities, my hours on line have gone UP to over 100 hours last month... I spend hours poking around the GeoCities forums, rumaging around finding things in GeoCities. I go to bed thinking HTML, I dream HTML, and wake up thinking HTML.... and then when I get my head up out of the HTML soup, I get swept away in a storm of pixels from Paint Shop Pro .... help, save me!.... Wait, I know how YOU can save me - tell all your friends to visit my pages, the sight of those page counters whizzing around might just preserve my sanity... I, like all page designers, have to deal with the problem of browser compatibility. Do I design for the latest Mark 10.02 browser, or do I try and make my pages viewable to as many people as possible. I have adopted the latter approach, and kept things relatively simple, although from September 1998 I have started including CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) here and there. My browser of preference is Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, and these pages will look best with that browser, although they will also look reasonable in Netscape 3 and up, and Internet Explorer 3. And just in case you are interested, they are also viewable in the text-only Lynx browser. The prefered setting for your colour depth is 16 bit colour or 24 bit colour, rather than the standard 256 colours most are set to. If you are viewing in 256 colours, the backgrounds and photos (.jpg images) won't look their best. It would also be nice if your resolution was set to 800 x 600 or greater as well. Aug 14, 1998 .... Well, after 3 weeks of training and internship, I have graduated from my Community Leader class. Aug 18, 1998 .... I have started as Community Leader for Heartland/Village blocks 2250-2749, and have since added blocks 5250-5499, a total of 750 under my care! Nov 22, 1998 .... I have passed my Mentor exam, and now I am a GeoCities Community Leader Training Mentor. Dec 7, 1998 .... Joined the Heartland Critique and Review Committee - members of this committee carry out a critical review of your site with special emphasis on ways to improve it, and an in depth look at your HTML coding. This committee no longer exists, but you are welcome to visit the current WebTech web site. Jan 24, 1999 .... I became an official Heartland University Instructor in HTML. Want to learn more about HTML, JavaScript, or Paint Shop Pro 5? Then just do the left click thing here. April 27, 1999 .... I passed the strict scrutiny of my fellow Community Leaders and have become a Co-Liaison - I am now the Co-L of Heartland/Village. June 27, 1999 .... I have survived the great Yahoo!GeoCities merger.
October 9th, 1999 .... I have become the Co-Liaison of a second suburb - Heartland Pond. November 4th, 1999 .... After starting as an Instructor for Heartland University in January, I have gone through the metamorphasis into WebTech University. I have been, in turn, Assistant Dean of Advanced HTML, then the Dean of Advanced HTML, the Co-Chair and now I am the Chair of WebTech University. January 10th, 2000 .... I have become the Chair of the Heartland Critique and Revue Committee. April 15th, 2001 ... I have taken over the postion as Heartland Liaison following the resignation of our former Liaison. February 2002 ... The Heartland Community Leaders have taken a step into the unknown by renaming themselves WebTechs, based on the very successful WebTech University. With this change we have broken all legacy ties with Yahoo and GeoCities. March 2002 ... WebTech University, and associated WebTech Org sites have moved to their own server at http://webtechu.com/ ready to take on the whole wide world.
Whoa - what have we here - some LINKS !!All Links on all pages last checked 6th January 2006 by
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