Bill got his $44 Timex-Sinclair 2000 touch keyboard computer in 1982.
    He taught himself Basic and fell in love with programming.  Already
    madly in love with math and a born draftsman.  He wrote successful
    games, like a racecar game, Tic-Tac-Toe and others.  And wrote
    a complicated bend interference program for a problem at work.

    He moved to San Diego, lost a job and went back to school and learned
    Lisp.  The old, deseptively simple and powerful language favored for
    AI and used by AutoCAD.  He wrote upward of 200 routines for graphics,
    and several other applications.  He used them in his work and the employers 
    wanted to know how Bill could accomplish his projects in record time and so
    expertly. Then Bill discovered the backbone of web pages, the new thing in
    computers.  HTML, is like programming.  He latched on and his skills at web
    page design steadily became expert, too.

    His first potentially profitable page was Don's Art Cards.  He got a call one day
    from a person in Searchlight, NV, who learned Bill was a web page designer,
    from some unknown patron or employee at Gibson Library in Henderson.
    Don wanted a page to sell his art as postcards.  Don backed out mysteriously,
    but Bill was encouraged.




    Bill made pages for himself in the beginning, then he, first
    made a page for Ava, a favorite Portland stripper and bartender. Then one
    for Alice.  Working on Alice's he learned how to do many things.  See
    "What I do".  Bill made a personal page for a friend and she
    liked it.  Lucy Devane.

    Bill's custom, after a short while in Vegas, was to eat a $1.89 breakfast
    at Rainbow Club Casino in Henderson.  One morning at the counter he
    met his seat neighbor, Ramon.  Ramon's wife had the hair salon across
    the street.  Ramon worked at the Timet Plant. Bill suggested making a web
    page for Bella Rae's Shop.  He created it, but the project fell through.



    Before coming to Vegas, Bill spent two months in Weaverville, CA.
    He stayed at the Trinity Motel on Main Street a few nights and decided to
    create a motel ad and registration site.  Key to it's success is the ability
    to write data of the guests to a file from a form on the web page.
    He collaborated late in the project with a programmer in Spokane, WA he met
    in a chat room.  Matt discovered the method to write, which was eluding Bill,
    but he never divulged it.  It came down to economics, with Bill the loser.
    

    Bill met Burnie at the Whitney Rec Center in Las Vegas.  Burnie had an
    idea for a successful network marketing plan and asked Bill if he could create
    visual aide slides and diagrams to promote it on the computer.  Bill said yes
    and Burnie fed Bill sketches and instructions.  Burnie has yet to completely
    pay Bill, but the results satisfied Burnie and he intends to use them to interest
    investors and would-be partners.




    Bill's brother Mike paid two designers to create two web sites for his HERS rating
    business.  Expensive to maintain, he considered using Bill.  Bill went to work,
    in the process Bill discovered a not too involved and reliable slideshow for the
    first page.  He used the Bella Rae Hair Salon page as a pattern and tailored it
    to Mike's requirements.  An efficient technique is to piece a page together from
    elements of existing work.





    Bill hopes to create more web pages and become a successful web page
    designer.