Web Standards

I use XHTML 1.0 Transitional with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS2) to produce these pages and the on-line XHTML Validator and CSS Validator to make sure that the pages are displayable by as many browsers as possible.

Motivation

You know how easy it is to lose touch with friends, family, and all the important people who make up your life? Well, it's a connected world now and we no longer have an excuse to let good friendships drift away. The White Spot (North) is my attempt to keep all the people in my life up-to-date on what's going on with me and all of us, any time, even if we can't get together as often as we'd like for reasons of time or distance.

The White Spot diner in Charlottesville, VA was a gathering place for my college buddies and me during some of the best times of my life. I now live north of it, but the name captures the essence of these pages: a place where old and new friends can gather, have a couple of laughs, and keep in touch with each other.

I frequently get asked about my web pages, the WS(N) servers, and what I need to get all this up and running. Here's a start.

Web Design Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS4
Graphics and Photos Adobe® Photoshop® CS4
Slideshows XML Flash Slideshow v3
Video Apple Final Cut Studio 2

Internet Infrastructure

I use almost the entire Adobe Creative Suite to create and maintain the pages in the White Spot (North). My Apple MacBook Pro is my constant companion, which I use for work, web design, and video editing.

All the way up to 2008, I hosted the White Spot (North) on a workstation in my home. It gave me a huge amount of experience setting up web servers, mail servers, FTP servers, mailing lists, and all the other things a web infrastructure manager needs to know. Since the move to my new home in Reston, however, I decided that it made a lot more sense to let someone else do that, and I signed up with Network Solutions for my hosting needs.

I'm connected to the Internet through Verizon FiOS. I've owned the domain name wspot.net since 2002.