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

He moved to San Diego and went back to school and learned Lisp. The ancient, deceptively simple and powerful language favored for AI and used by AutoCAD. He wrote more than 200 routines for graphics, and several other applications in Autolisp. 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. HTML is like programming. He taught himself the skills to be expert at web design.

His first potentially profitable page was Don's Art Cards. He got a call one day from someone in Searchlight, Nevada, 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. Bill was encouraged.

Bill made pages for himself in the beginning, then he, first made a page for Ava, a favorite Portland 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 one.

Before coming to Vegas, Bill spent two months in Weaverville, California. He stayed at the Trinity Motel on Main Street a few nights and decided to create a motel page 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, Washington he met online. Matt discovered the method to write form data to a file.

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. The results were very successful and Burnie intends to use them to interest investors and would-be partners.

Bill's brother Mike paid two designers to create 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.