CyberGORD

Here's what happened exactly.

When I was unemployed some 25 years ago as part of the process to apply for jobs in the UK...it was compulsory to take courses to improve one's knowledge about computers and software.

After a little experience, I managed to find me a cheap desktop computer and at the time we could plug something into the landline socket and call up an internet service. I think it was quite pricey and very unreliable but nevertheless I was getting websites on to my computer and the task for me was to find out what a website was made of.

So I used my time to discover there was a code called HTML Hyper Text Markup Language. I eventually found out about FTP File Transfer Protocol and downloaded a program called CuteFTP.

I think I some how got hold of a cracked version of Dreamweaver too. I pulled down this website that had all the bells and whistles and looked at the HTML. Now I had never seen anything like this before I was never trained in anything to do with computer science but I saw a pattern , i saw tags open and closing tags. So I would shuffle these tags around in the Windows notepad and throw them back up on to a free server space I signed up for. Low and behold...I made a webpage by borrowing html code from another code. So that's how it's done??....nobody had explained to me about this before. I found out for myself.

At the same time ...I was looking for work and mixing around with entrepreneurs, here and there that I would meet at network marketing meetings, those days there was a lot of network marketing going around promising fortunes for your time pushing health products or phone services.

Well..as the story goes a friend asked me...Hey Gordon..do you know anybody that can do Web Design? (They were entrepreneurs thinking about building a paid internet directory)

I replied..yes! I can do that. So on a part time basis I would drive 20 miles a day and help them build pages for Indian Restaurants. Wow! they say all code is junk.....mine was junky but you know it would always work out and I learned a new piece of code each day and I could make text move and flash across a screen, so boring writing menus but there I was making websites with little experience. I remember I was hidden away inside a barn in a farmyard. One day I drove home and discovered the world had changed while I was working in my isolation. The twin towers of New York's had fallen it was September 11th 2001. A new era and a new web designer.