My Personal Website . . . from professional to leisure

Cover Letter & Resume . . . in quest of work 34K
http://www.allensmith.net/~file/AllenSmith.PDF: I am an experienced hardware service technician, with training and experience at general (help desk) computer support, and competence at (hand) coding web-pages. I am currently seeking opportunities for employment, working from a home office on flexible hours, or any other workplace arrangement that facilitates my working in a productive manner. [...more]
Select Technical Support References
For Hire & For Sale >> Technical Support >>: Select End-User support information that I have produced over the past few years, which I now offer to others on and AS-IS basis via this Website.
Fast Loading Pages: A Fresh Look at Internet Speed
Original Source: http://webreference.com/new/020801.html (Aug 1, 2002): "Should it be your priority to engage the visitor in your web site so that they do not have a second to think of moving on? Yes of course it should, and at many points Yahoo is like this. [It] becomes intensely clear why Yahoo is the most visited web site in the World today and will continue to be in the near future. Yahoo is stickier than almost every other site [as] it focuses on giving its visitors what they want -- Speed and Content in equal proportions."

Many high-end users now connect to the Internet using a 3G cellphone device. However, during times of extreamly heavy use on the cellular network, or when the signal causes the data connection to fall back to EDGE, the performance will be closer to that of a 56k modem. Not to mention many users outside a major city or town still use a 56k modem. All of which is why Content delivered with Speed still matters.

The NEED for Speed and the rest of the story
For Hire & For Sale >> Web Development >> Rates >>: An updated copy of my commentary about Web loading performance to deliver content.
Graphic Resources & Image Archives
Technical >> Web Design >> Graphics & Type >>: Website graphics and typography tutorials, utilities for Web graphics, and some public GIF Image Archives-- including some Web Link Icons, like this site's icons.
The connection between IT and Asperger’s Syndrome
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/career/?p=288 [New Window]: This helps to explain the way that I experience life in terms of what people are doing and what has been accomplished.
TypeLogic INTP personality description
http://www.typelogic.com/intp.html [New Window]: It is amazing how most-- but not all-- of this seems to also describes ME!
Baen Free eBooks and WebScriptions
Social & Leisure >> Sci-Fi & Fantasy >> Baen eBooks: If you are ok with reading a novel as an ebook, it is amazing how many mass-market books Baen is giving away for free-- including some that are just coming out as a hardcover or paperback. While the other ebooks Baen offers via WebScriptions are sold for noticeably less than the cost of a paperback.
"Around The Table" gaming resources
Social & Leisure >> Around Table Games >>: Real board games . . . a most enjoyable pastime.

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Page Content Updated: 4 May 2010

Any site I create for a client will use CSS for page layout. However, this site was created back when tables were used for layout, so it is currently in transition. For now, the navigation header and footer continue to use layout tables, but the page content uses CSS layout. I am also updating this site one small section at a time, so once the entire site is at the current revision, the next update will remove the few remaining layout tables.