There was a time when I was a mean coder.  I took great delight in being able to create all sorts of programs for my computer and my place of work.   It wasn’t easy but I got a great deal of satisfaction.   I also had a functioning web site running much earlier than most companies and people on this planet – back in 1995 which by computing terms is a long long time ago.  It give this some  sort perspective Mark Zuckerberg would have been 11 at the time.  I even started a second degree in computer sciences and this looked like where my life would be leading me.   Then I suddenly lost interest and my skills became rustier and rustier and in the ever changing world of coding if you don’t keep up you soon are left far far behind.

The only reason I mention all this is because I’m poking my head under the bonnet/hood once more.   I have finally got around to publishing much of my salt way research which means I’ve got to mess around with HTML.  At one time I would have thought this a great opportunity to get a real understanding of CSS but now I don’t really want to know.  Instead I have decided to make the site as simple as possible to build and so it is not that much different to my first web site all those years ago.  Which of course is only superficially true as the tools I’m using to create the new pages are more powerful than anything available in the past so I can change a great deal with just a few keystrokes.

I just hope the final result will be worth the wait.