Queensbury High School Class of 1977 Reunion
Welcome back old friends! It's that time of our lives again! Time to reconnect with old friends... rekindle old memories... laugh at ourselves... and remember those no longer with us. We will soon gather en mass to relive our past lives and celebrate our current ones! Growing families, advancing and changing careers, new interests and hobbies, children & grand-children! The never-ending mystery tour that life takes us on... whether we want to go or not!
More information on the reunion pages.
New Blog site in progress! Be sure to check out my 'alpha mode' web site management tech blog at blog.cdchase.com. Eventually, this site and that will merge most likely, but while I'm finalizing the design, and deciding the niche I would like to address, the two sites will be somewhat independent. Feel free to leave comments & suggestions!
22 September 2006, Quick Update: I just added an Amazon aStore: Dan's Genealogy Store as a resource for new genealogists. Please check it out if you are interested in getting started in genealogy.
Thank you for visiting! This site is designed as personal/professional demonstration site to showcase my interests, while demonstrating my professional expertise. As a full-time webmaster for a state university, most of my time and energy is spent there... however, much of what I do is behind the scenes, and difficult to demonstrate publicly. Through this site, I hope to get back to participating in the other areas of interest that I have explored over the years. Life is not just work! It's time to have some fun!
I invite you to investigate the areas listed on the menu if they are of interest. Please feel free to contact me if you would like to share interests or need assistance in an area you feel I may be able to help with. My contact information is at the bottom of each page.
I'll start with an introduction to how this site is being created... While I spend much of my time head down in PHP & Perl at work, we use Macromedia's Dreamweaver for editing most basic pages, and even as a code editor for PHP. I'm exploring using it as well for this site, and initially this site will be built using static pages using the template capability, with PHP code added after the fact as I decide what content it might be useful for. I'm the techie in the real world, though a former professional photographer, so the graphical design and layout of this site is exploration as well.
I am very standards oriented, so all pages are created using XHTML 1.1 and CSS2 for separation of content and design. Much of my work involves XML and XSLT on a regular basis, so eventually I plan on adding some samples of that work. As I don't have control of software installed on this web server, I am somewhat limited in these capabilities. I believe in having XSLT applied at the server, to make output more browser independent. Where as some can do the application of XSLT to XML internally, it is not functional for all browsers. By doing it at the server, I can recognize the browser being used, choose a custom XSLT if needed, and deliver the merged output. A good example is creating print optimized pages. This also allows delivery of raw XML for RSS feeds, etc.
If you have any suggestions or comments on my site, please feel free to contact me. I would appreciate all comments being constructive--if you don't like something, tell me, but also tell me what I should do to fix it! Just telling me you don't like something, doesn't help. I'm a positive thinker, and will take all recommendation seriously. Though, please remember, if it is just a personal preference--I can't satisfy everyone! But, I'll do my best to try! That's just me... -Dan
