About Iron Spider

Several years back when I first started surfing the World Wide Web and figured out that you could pop the hood on any web page by clicking on View » Source in Internet Explorer, thus revealing the HTML source code, I became an instant code junky and I have been one ever since.

Since then, my constant need to scroll through a computer screen stuffed to the gills with color-coded syntactical markup quickly led to a ravenous and uncontrollable appetite for other habit-forming web languages including Javascript, CSS, DHTML, and of course the latest craze, XHTML. At times, it seemed that I lived, breathed, slept, and even ate web page source code. I went to a clinic to see if I could get treatment for my addiction but the doctor told me that I was suffering from some kind of rare condition and that the best thing to do would be to research it on the internet...

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Heh heh... but seriously folks...

Recently, after completing a contract to create a help file for a local software company and being told that I had a knack for technical writing, I decided to create a website which would act as a kind of 'notebook' of some of the things I had learned about web design over the years. Thus Iron Spider was born.

Who am I? Well, my name is Robert Darrell and I am a resident of the fair city of Montreal, Canada. I am a web designer, writer, artist, and gardener (although not necessarily in that order... depends what day it is...)

As time and life evolves, so shall this website. To slake my thirst to be mired up to my eyeballs in source code 24-7 I've written myself a prescription to attempt to produce one web page each day. Operative word: attempt. Not that I can't do it but it's just that, to be quite honest, I am frequently sidetracked by all the latest new bells and whistles that keep popping up all over the galaxy of web development.

Whatever the case may be, you're bound to see alot of new additions to this website over the next little while (read: for years to come).


Wanna drop me a line? You can contact me here.


Cheers!


~ Rob



March 21st, 2004