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Pro Bono Sites Gateway Directories Alaska Photos Travel Agency (Tables) Real Estate Office (Image Map Hotspots) English Class (Frames 1) Virtual Tour (Frames 2) The mainframe portion of this resume was created as the first two projects of the initial HTML class I took. Consequently, if you look "under the hood", you will find that it is some- what primitive in some aspects. For example, I used lists, where today I would use tables. But it would be nearly two years before I was ready to put it on the internet. When the class concluded, I did some additional independent study and research. Then I spent 3 1/2 months working full time to create the content for a pro bono site, which was about 90,000 bytes of text (alphanumeric characters) when I first up- loaded it. I went on to my next project, not intending to spend any more time on it. It now stands at 1,518,000+ bytes of text. If you do the math, that comes out to over a year of my life I've invested in it. The advent of the internet has made it possible for most people to publish; just like Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, or even Martin Luther. It's been reward- ing, educational, and sometimes challenging. In the first 2 3/4 years of its existence it has attracted over 45,000 different people, which gives it a lot more influence than a professor teaching at a university. It's also taught me a lot about how to promote a web site. A web site is pretty useless if nobody knows it exists. Along the way, I also created two duplicate sites to try different approaches for attracting traffic. How- ever, the sites are anonymous, and, therefore, I have not in- cluded links for them. Two of the pages within this site are actually web sites in their own right, even though they share the same server directory; because they are registered sep- arately with the search engines. Not only is it simpler and less expensive, but they serve to funnel traffic to the main page. One is small and simple, and the other is rather large and impressive. More of these "sub-sites" are probably on the way. When you work on a web site almost every day and put your heart and soul into it you keep coming up with new ideas to promote it - it becomes a competitive thing. The large satellite site has already doubled the main page in hits per day. If you are an organization with, or planning, a web site, and want it to make a major contribution to your endeavor; but don't have a big advertising budget to invest, you need someone knowledgeable in promoting web sites who's primary responsibility is making it a success. Just having a nicely designed web site isn't going to do it for you, but I can. I spend part of almost every day promoting mine. The next project I tackled also took 3 1/2 months to pull to- gether, working full time on it; after having worked on it part time for several years. It's based on a simple idea, yet I've never seen another directory that can compare to it in the areas it covers - which are considerable. I never expected it to be a commercial success. Some things you do just for the challenge, to be creative, and to turn an idea into reality. Linux is a good example of that type of thinking.

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