Letters I can never send: To my Webmaster of Truths

It's funny how it took me getting you out of my house and on a plane to DR to be able to put my thoughts together enough to even attempt to write this. And though you aren't an inanimate object and I very well can give you this letter I won't. Mainly because you'll just tell me that "my girl is showing.." after you read it, because who in the hell writes letters anymore right? But here goes, in the spirit of what you do best...

The first thing you did when we met all those years ago was PLAN YOUR WEB PRESENCE. You picked your domain name and decided how invested you wanted to be in the development of our friendship. You had two options before you. You could choose to DO IT YOURSELF, which would require more work, or the GO PRO option. Though you would consider this step BBI( boring but important) it was a new approach for me all together.You chose the DIY approach, thought it would require you to look at all the angles, what appealed visually, as well as the functionality, all the while staying persistent enough to work through the rough spots.

You CHOSE YOUR TOOLS well, picking the host with enough bandwidth to support who we bother were as well as a FTP secure enough to keep our secrets between us. Our foundation was 'truths', and you MADE KEY DESIGN DECISIONS as we shared them. We kept it clean, concise, and didn't waste our words. You LEARNED THE CODE but only what you needed to know, respecting my boundaries on what I chose not to share.

I know it had to be frustrating when you right clicked, selected view source, then view page source, and left clicked, only to see that my code was one long unbroken block as opposed to the line by line layout that you normally preferred. Nevertheless you were patient enough to sort through it anyway.

Next you had to IDENTIFY THE BEST SOFTWARE to use. WYSIWYG would have been the easiest, but in knowing that there are several truths within a simple truth you were stuck with the HTML way. And I wouldn't be me if I didn't occasionally, TAKE CONTROL OVER THE LOOK, FEEL, AND FUNCTION of our friendship. Though I had to say that I was pleased when I say there was growth potential, and you even left a space for feedback.

You OPTIMIZED FOR SEARCH ENGINES, the most challenging yet potentially rewarding task in a friendship. Your ability to perfectly position yourself so that whenever I needed something and I searched through my archive of friends based on the situation and their ability to help, you were one of the top on every list of options is quite a feat. But you wouldn't be you if you couldn't make this look easy.

Once you PUT ALL THE PARTS TOGETHER and TOOK THE SITE LIVE it was the last step that impressed me. CONSTANTLY TENDING TO THE SITE. You tweaked and adjusted as needed, your ultimate test over the last month.

You weren't use to seeing a really emotional side of me, since our 'truths' were very direct and factual for the most part, but you handled it well. Though I was expecting the harsh jab in the arm accompanied by the 'man up' I've seen you give to others, all I received were a few 'This is interesting...'s and 'this is definitely a new side of you's Which I appreciate.You're amazing , and I thank you.

Your 'bro 4 life'
Apathy