The story of how I met my web site.

Well, back in the dark ages, way back in another place and time, we met this guy in a coffee shop. He moved away. We moved away. He moved back. We moved back. Then, we met this guy in a coffee shop.

We thought he was still in Colorado. He thought we were still in East Texas. But we were actually all back in Dallas and we were all frequenting a different coffee shop than the one at which we first met. It was bound to happen that we'd meet up again. When we did, Michael and his biz partner showed us what they were up to: Inventing HyperSites. I was excited out of my mind. I pestered, begged, and whined until Michael was convinced I'd make a decent guinea pig.

So I am using HyperSites to power my blog. I have the "make it from scratch" tool set. It is very powerful and uses programming languages that use all the letters of the alphabet. I however don't use the programming languages. I only use common sense, a dash of logic, and point & click and, just because I like to complicate things, I sometimes use an HTML tag or two.

So ... I haven't gotten around to building my own comment section with my "make it from scratch" tools ... which I could probably do in about the time that it's taken to explain this. But when I get through explaining this, I have more fish to fry and more projects than I can shake a stick at. In the mean time I've remembered there's away to make the manual HaloScan code show up by default in my new blog entries.

Evidently, I asked too many questions about the "make it from scratch" tools because Michael and his crew recently invented some "ready to bake" templates. They've given me access to the templates but I've become very attached to my version. On the other hand, if I were starting over today, I'd go with the templates.

The templates come with the commenting built into them. And a better "contact me" scenario. And great pics from Colorado (which are just there for demo-ing the tool) and ... the templates are available for you so you can go explore your options: HyperSites.com Starting Points.

If you are into graphic designer or web designer, these tools have some secrets and future plans that you need to know about. Drop me a note if you want to know more when the time comes.

Oh did I mention that we moved away again and Michael has moved back to Colorado? Miss those coffee shop days. For that matter, I miss coffee shops! I'm still looking for one I can just walk to.

And just because I know someone's wondering ... The reason I moderate my comments is to protect my readers from the robots that know where I live ... yeah, really, they have my URL and everything. It's one thing for the spam to arrive in my inbox ... another for it to arrive on my posts. And yes I know HaloScan has spam filtering but ... really ... it wouldn't be pretty.

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