This website has been due for a redesign for years. I first registered the domain in May 2003, and used a WYSIWYG web design editor, Namo WebEditor to create the pages. It was easy, but only if you do not strive for coding perfection. Now, I don’t claim to be able to produce perfect code, but the more I learned about coding, the less I liked what I did here at Grump’s Place. Then the problems came…

…and multiplied. I began trying to tweak the code and re-write some of the pages, or portions of it anyway. Oh man, I totally screwed some up so bad I had to get rid of them. You see, as many of these types of “out-of-the-box” web creation products do, they insert a bunch of code that just isn’t your standard fare - especially if you have learned as little as I had at that point. But I wanted so much more.

So, I learned more and I practiced and spent time on great websites and forums like SitePoint, Position Is Everything and of course, W3 Schools Tutorials. The more I learned, (more…)