Welcome!  I am proud of my accomplishment of maintaining my own domain, timbeyond.com, for six years in-house on my own rack server before the power bill got too high.  I had fun using open standards to integrate standard Unix services and Linux server programs for hosting on an Internet website.  Now, I maintain two domains for an artist with Amazon Web Services: William Shepley Photography and Shoot Italy.

   The long-time experience has shown to me in real terms that frontend software to avoid the burden of "complicated programming" is unnecessary -- completely unnecessary to someone with enough technical inclination who is willing to take the time and effort to learn how themselves.  For me, paid consultants and technical support are not necessary, since I research freely-available published technical information, and then try out new things, as I work incrementally outward expanding my domain of software development knowledge and experience.  I hope someday to have a home software development business with the purpose of using my creative Unix computer skills for the benefit of businesses in Siskiyou County and beyond. 

   Since the emergence of popular open source, I have been a believer of the ideal that the merit-based paradigm offers the best quality software because it has been legitimized to be distributed freely without costly licensing terms and restrictions on reengineering.  This combination can make a viable alternative to the closed-development paradigm, especially those which rely on market domination, government contracts and absorbing competitors to establish their own standards and to provide the revenue necessary to sustain such efforts, which is potent and successful, but the products restrict customers to each given brand.

   "Unix is a technical/cultural heritage, not a product," -- Dion Johnson, Scotts Valley, Calif.

   "There's no particular mountain that you could point to that an open source group couldn't climb," -- Mark Shuttleworth,  SABDFL