Alright, so some of you may be asking why I have not been doing anything to update this site and that is a reasonable question.  To answer it let's start with the history of my whole web experience and don't worry we will do the abridged edition.

In 1998 I decided as part of my career training that I wanted to have my own website and after all it was the dotcom boom going on so why not.  When I first started tinkering with website design I went to some classes and began to learn HTML and although I found it to be useful for my web I also found that it would take a great deal more effort than I was willing to spend to put a site together.

I was soon to find FrontPage 98 and it quickly showed me how easy it would be to put a website together using that product.  It was not long before I was adding pages and throwing out pictures on my website even though nobody knew it existed.  FrontPage was and to me still is a really great tool for building websites.

However it must be said that most professional web designers or just well versed individuals in website design would either laugh or just snicker at those of us who used FrontPage as it had many shortcomings to other products on the market.  But even with those shortcomings I continued to use FrontPage with each new version that would come out and am currently using FrontPage 2003.

But at the end of 2006 Microsoft decided it was time to retire FrontPage after it's first incarnation over 9 years ago.  FrontPage has been replaced with a new web design product called Expression Web and it is definitely different than FrontPage.  Expression Web is now a true contender in the web design field and many say it will give Dream Weaver (probably the most popular web design product to date) a real run for it's money.

One of the big problems with FrontPage was it's lousy way of handling html code where it would throw in information that did not conform to HTML standards of just cluttered things up.  To be honest for me it was so messy dealing with the code that I really tried to avoid looking at it as it just got me frustrated and confused.  But with Expression Web this issue is nonexistent as this product is totally HTML compliant.

With all good changes comes some things that will be missed and for me in FrontPage it is the organizational chart that helped me define how my website flowed visually and the navigation links which were not really compliant with anybody else.  There are many other items I will miss but again this is what change does.

So since I am to learn a new product and new ways of doing things for website design I felt it best not to get to involved with updating pages on my site much.  But as I spend more time with this I will be designing a whole new site based on what I have learned and hope to start pushing it out in August or September at the latest.

Well that's my story for now so again stay tuned and check back as I am working on making these changes happen.