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8-21-2021

Web page is up!

(Guest blog by Dave's brother: Roy Hallquist)

Hello Internet: Been meaning to have this done for a while. Dave has been writing all these great books - but there hasn't been any sort of web presence. No doubt it was better for Dave to write the books first rather than put up the web page before he had anything written.

I wasted spent several months looking at various programs (Hugo, Jekyll, etc.) to create web pages for me - and they all do a great job. I wanted more flexibility; I wanted things where I wanted them and not where the various programs put them. Learning the programs to adjust everything was going to take longer than just learning CSS (um, ok.. still learning...) and pounding out the page.

Could be this is a mantra for professional writers too... just start writing!

Anyway... I laugh at myself a bit. I'm a computer guy, and actually writing the page was harder to get started doing than all the tech stuff: setting up the machines for web service, setting up DNS and web certificates, etc. I do those tech things everyday. Perhaps writing would be easier if I did that every day.

Dave: thanks for all the books! :)

...Roy