Hi. Jim again.
I’ve spent a solid part of my career building some very sophisticated websites as well as other types of user interfaces and complex data projects. When it came to making a simple web site, I was almost afraid to try. How can I keep it simple when my professional world was focused on making complexity simple? Would I make the simple complex? Probably…
Our 55th Reunion needed a web presence because, well, everyone expects one. How else can we provide every little detail necessary to help you make the decision to attend?
Um, well, this event is so simple, I suppose all I really needed was a single page with the date, time, and location. In the early days of the web, that would have sufficed. But now readers seem to desire as much information as possible to define every shape and highlight every detail. I hope I was able to do that here.
The biggest trick, however, wasn’t making this site simple, but to build it on a 13-year-old computer that crashes every 10 minutes. I retired because I didn’t want to even LOOK at another computer, let alone build another Web site. I burned out building web sites. But here we are again, and I’ll admit that crashing every 10 minutes gives me the time to make a cup of tea, a sandwich, or grab a few minutes practicing guitar and mandolin.
And this site isn’t quite complete yet, but it does what it needs to do for the moment. My next step is to add an online payment system.
Hopefully it will be be finished in the near future.