Marvel8ed
Webdesigns
The Fretwells
My cousin volunteered to help me get my family genealogy and history onto the web. He is a full-time professional web designer, and the structure and coding for this site are his work mostly. I was responsible for the over 10,000 pages of genealogy and history data -- the so-called "content" of the website. I owe my intense interest in web coding to my cousin, Gregory Planting, who is still my mentor and dear friend.
Marvel8ed Webdesigns
Marvel8ed Webdesigns is the website you are currenly "in." It is my own personal website as well. It contains just about anything I want people to be able to see. I actually started it just to "serve" large files to friends; files way too big to send by email. But it soon grew into my "forum" for telling friends what I think about politics, religion, and just about anything else that piques my interest. And last of all, it took the name of my webdesign company. For me webdesign is a hobby, not a job. If I am working for a customer who has deadlines, I will meet them. But my prime mission is not the cash flow; it is a hobby -- I want to learn new methods and meet/make new friends.
Alpha Studio
Do you like the design of this website? It is the second one of the five websites I operate where I am not responsible for the design. Can you believe it, on my own website, I found a design I just couldn't resist. It "just fit me," so I am using it. It is a free design created by Alpha Studio. They have many other designs that really appealed to me as well. Take a look at their designs. You, too, just might find one you can't resist.
Web design copyright © Autumn Dream, designed by Alpha Studio
Losing Tolerance for Zero Tolerance
Randy Cassingham says it far better than I can: the Zero Tolerance policies of our public schools are sometimes just plain wrong. Good governance always comes from good thinking. Policies that remove thought from the process are always wrong.
TED: Great ideas worth spreading
Tired of the third-grade level of public TV? Here's a wonderful alternative. Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world. A huge website full of informative talks by some of the World's more interesting people. I think you will find them every bit as entertaining -- and much more enlightening -- than most TV shows.
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a non-profit organization founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes 60,000 books from the Library of Congress and 70,000 books from Cornell University, plus a whole wealth of other historical documents. No historian or researcher should overlook this website.
4K Video Downloader -- free license
Review of 4K Video Downloader: I like to copy videos so I can view them during the summertime when I have no Internet -- at a remote lake where I love to fly fish. This is the best video downloader I have found, and I think I have tried every one of them, both online and the downloadable, stand-alone ones. The online ones are mostly trash, and many will try to download virus to your computer. Most downloadable software for this purpose is unworkable, and not updated. The 4K Video downloader has been the most reliable of all of them for me. Give it a try if you are seeking a hassle-free video downloader.