Design Policy

First of all, I want my homepage is properly visible with any browser. I am not fastidious, just I want to see my page using text browsers like elinks or lynx. Text browsers are not suitable for everybody's choice. But they are exceptionally handy if you're developing web application or using text terminal emulators. That's why.

When I was younger than now, I read few articles like a any browser campaign or concepts similar to HTML Hell Page by Eric S. Raymond, and disguised myself to a fanatic follower of those concepts hoping that people looks me somewhat differently. But not now. From now on, I want to say my idea, not others.

There are many WYSIWYG tools that make web documents easy. But I prefer not to use them. Using those tools may save your time greatly, but it uses excessive HTML tags so that browsers need more time to parse and display pages, and make hard to read sources of web pages.

Thus, I make my web page manually using popular text editors like XEmacs, GNU Emacs or vim. I don't want to ignite text editor war here, although I prefer XEmacs most.

As far as I concern, proper indentation with consistent style is the first priority when creating any kind of documents or codes. Personally I loath people who makes ugly text. It doesn't matter you're developing a program code, writing reports or creating web document. In an excessive manner, I would prefer writing not-working-but-looks-good code rather than working-nicely-but-unreadable code. Am I going too far? ;-)

And the second reason, I have very poor sense of beauty; colors and coordinates. It's very hard for me to make my homepage pretty and gorgeous. Until now, I admit that I was stealing page design of others who makes their pages pretty nice. But I'm not going to do that any more.

Before now, I was proudly show my e-mail address in my pages with proper URL so that people who want to contact me would not have any problem. I don't want to put my e-mail address directly because of those bastard spammers! I don't want to receive more than 100 hundred junk mails a day (I'm not kidding!) Can you imagine that I gave up my favorite e-mail account which I used from 1994 just because I received too many junk mails? *sigh*

If you are a person who sends spam to other people, think about it really seriously. Sending spams do not help your business. Worse, your action makes people angry with you. Believe me, sending spams has only bad effect on your business, unless your business is selling other people's mail addresses to other spammers.

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