What's New (2004-07-25):

I've alphabetized the links on the left side of the page and decided I was tired of seeing orange. Now all the links are blue, as you can see. I would just like to have a moment of silence for the person who came up with design templates in Dreamweaver 4, for if it were not for that wonderful function, I would have had to go through and manually change every link on all 540 pages of this site, just like I did in the old days when all I used was Notepad and my site consisted of three or four pages.

I've added an image gallery with my own attempts at working through various Paint Shop Pro tutorials online. There were lots of "grrrrs" and "yays" in those projects, let me tell you!

I was sick of seeing the old, temporary web-recon logo, so I threw together a new one really quick by experimenting with how layers blend in Paint Shop Pro. It's nothing fancy, I know. But I don't want to make myself look foolish by creating some mediocre graphic and calling it great. So what you see above is another temporary logo, but at least it's a touch better than the old one.

And by the way, I know this site looks rather plain, but hey, it loads pretty fast and it's easy to maintain. I thought about creating a site something like what Sega used to have -- you know, the one that was built on Sonic the Hedgehog's hairdo. But adding major links to such a site has to be a pain in the rumpus.

Also, you might notice that the fastest-growing areas of this site are currently the Young Actors area and the Comic Books area, which are also the two largest areas already. Music is up there, too, but I'm not buying any more CD's for a while. I do plan to do some work on duplicating CD artwork and liner notes. I've got some done now, but not many. It's a fairly long and tedious process.

I do add a little here and there to other parts. I hate to take anything down because I want the site to grow, not shrink.