William Paul Fiefer

Web publishing



[main menu | announcements]

600 E. Indian Trail Road
Aurora, IL 60505
United States
41.45.18N/88.18.48W
1.630.892.5180
yamada@prairienet.org
Image: Mom and Dad.
[credit]

Welcome! In 1993 there were 130 Web sites. Mine was one of them. This blurb tells you a little about me.

I tune your online publications, blending what you do with what the Net does for you. I combine journalism with systems analysis to help you build a clear, navigable, information-rich site.

When we work together, I flatten your learning curve by providing the editorial and technical background essential to delivering a relevant message. Whether you run GNU-Linux/Unix, Microsoft, Mac, or a multi-platform toolchain, I am on your side. I don't talk like a press release and I don't shill for vendors and call it consulting. I shape your content to crisply convey your ideas.

Once you're ready to realize the full potential of your blog, site, publication, archive, or reference complex, contact me. I'll make all of your pages fit to serve.


 

[main menu]

Image: Big as a dog.
"The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb."

Marshall McLuhan

FAQ About What's
new
Site
map
Privacy
policy
Visit

  • Announcements (recent announcements): "Order returns at absolute zero." .
  • The word: Too many sites are unfocused pieces of slack content on public display. Think loading up on technology solves these problems? Think again. Misspellings, fractured syntax, fuzzy exposition, and incongruous artwork leave any project looking illiterate. Great Webs grow only when good editors work hard to make them make sense. Get The William Paul Fiefer FAQ to see why quality content is essential to quality communications.
  • Clips (more clips): How do "fast and cheap" contribute to higher quality? When you build software under Heavy Rotation. Are Web graphics effective? Only after you realize that images are everything. Once the machines are always online, let every device be a server! The Good Web™ outlines the publication of a scalable personal site.
  • What's new (and the What's new archive): When what you want is what you have, then what you have is all you need. An infrequently revised collection of shirttails, evergreens, and polemic.
  • Sour grapes: Naked as the eyes of a clown – the parable of the humble consultant. Strange and true: In 1975 I built the first paper PDA (`Hipster' is a stupid word); in 1977, I built the first mountain/cross bike using Sturmey-Archer gearing, a Campagnolo-Cinelli track group, Brooks leather, Nishiki chrome-moly, and cheap fat rims; in 1996, I broadcast the Net's first blogs and briefs. You've done the same, too. All these ideas are recycled concepts.
  • Security: Verify my digital signature if you have something by me ..... You might want to know why I'm on a list of known arms traffickers along with several persons from MIT, Bell Labs, and IBM. You'll be surprised to learn it makes good sense for you to be on this list, too. Note: As of September 16, 1999, this list is closed. U.S. restrictions on strong cryptography have been relaxed.
  • Vox: ICQ: 164660996; IMx: wfiefer; IRC (guess); EpicElectricFuck!™; CruelDirtyMouth™.
  • Menagerie: Credits for image and audio quotations reside at the page footer where the work appears. This page's announcements and featured dogear change often, more so when the breeze snaps. Slashed by new jumps? Then hip me the words, pictures, or sounds you want doped and chime the stick they blow. Otherwise, browse, dig, and ball.


[header]
Credits: The dogear, Mom and Dad, was captured on Kodak Tri-X through a 50mm Canon 1.8/22 with a Canon F-1.  *  The page-center marquee image Two Pups is Brownie and me captured by my Dad through a Canon Serenar 50mm f/1.8 with a Canon IV-S2 rangefinder.  *  The original monochrome prints were scanned, then de-noised and sharpened using Adobe Photoshop. Each moment, only once. Do not contact me asking which one is Brownie.
Thank you for visiting! © Copyright 1992-2008, William Paul Fiefer (yamada@prairienet.org), all rights reserved. You incur specific legal obligations under the terms of my copyright and little else under my privacy policy. This site is made possible by maple.sugar.buddha™ and translated into English by my Mom. Sweet enlightenment!™ Last updated 01 January 2008.