I'm back! I have really been busy working on a few things. The Web Adventures go on of course, but this time on a different level. I have changed the look of the site, as you can see. I am trying to learn the KISS principle of web design (=Keep It Simple Stupid) while at the same time, I am trying on tables as a way of structuring my webpages.

Much has happened since the last time I wrote something for this website. The last article was about my "Adventures In Javascript". It wasn't as successful as my "A Friar's Adventures In Cyberspace" but hey, I wasn't expecting anyone to read my webpages in the first place, anyway. (I just got lucky then since when I first published the article on my "cyberspace" adventures, About.Com was looking for the same kind of article.). So what did happen the last time? Here is a rundown...

I continued studying javascript, then I had the chance to attend some classes that introduced me to Linux and C programming. Meanwhile, my work on our school's website became troublesome since I could not get enough people to help me with HTML. Finally, I discovered what is called a "CGI-BIN" and the relative term, the "CGI Script". The next thing I knew I was customizing CGI Perl Scripts to manage the content of our school's site and that of AgustinongPinoy.Com

Throughout this time, I began to get to know an area of the Web that is not well known: the programmers' web communities. These are what gave us Linux and a whole bunch of other good things. And these, I think, are the ones that really power the Web.

There was a time when I thought that what made the World Wide Web a "nice place to be in" where the individuals who gave out CareWare and similar stuff. Now I realize that there are different communities out there which are giving the web a human face by the way they transact "deals" with their "products". "I give you this for free, but I expect you to acknowledge my work and give my site a link" would be a bad way of putting it. It is more like "Hey, this is personal stuff; I developed it myself. I am allowing you to get it for free because you may need it. Just remember who made it and don't try to make money out of it since it is not yours in the first place." "I am allowing you to get it because you may need it..." Now, that is not the way people normally transact deals offline. But among the web communities I am thinking of, that seems to be the normal way. And the way they "say it" is in itself also quite an experience since they say it "beautifully", that is, through websites that truly communicate the human spirit.

So here I am once more, trying to make a website that "truly communicates the human spirit." At the same time, I continue to tell people about the "giving" communities that make the Web a truly educational and inspiring place to visit. For here, people who may not see each other offline are able to share in common projects and work together for a common purpose: whether it be to keep the Net a Free Zone, to develop software or simply to keep each other informed. I am not a software developer, nor a freelance web designer. I don't have any products to sell or free stuff to give. I just enjoy being here. Period. And thank you for reading this article.

PS: For those among you who are wondering about the new design of this site: the colors were inspired by the Online Journal while the tabled structure was influenced by the Coranto Factory. (This latter also gave me the idea of putting icons to good use.)