These are my work ethics based strictly on the Bible & my personal convictions.

Matthew Chapter 7 verse 12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. The Golden Rule Rules!

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This page is more about websites and the internet than anything else because that's where most of the abuse is. I do offer other services as indicated on the home page and practice the same ethics.

  • I treat everyone the same
  • No Sites linking to lots of other sites
    • At best this is a serious security risk.
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    • I owe it to the honest people on the internet not to create sites which are open to this known sink hole of information theft.
    • This is often a scam where the perpetrators lure the unsuspecting site owner into "one big happy family" of friends and mentors all loudly applauding each other and everyone but the founder of this mess going broke.
    • Those who perpetrate these schemes have a never ending supply of necessary services and giddy success stories; don't believe it.
    • Been there; done that. It's a guaranteed path to high maintenance and grief. I speak from experience.
    • You will spend about 5 times as much for your website in the recurring monthly charges alone if you take this route. Where did I get that figure? With my calculator using actual case scenarios; one of them my first two sites.
    • See the paragraphs below for a little more information.
  • I prefer not to do the following:
    • Business Sites which I believe are destined to fail; if I think that I'll tell you . If you still want it, OK and good luck.
      • **I learned this lesson the hard way; if you are a friend of mine, I might consider doing such a site for free so you won't feel badly towards me after it happens.
      • Such sites are usually a desperate attempt to find a solution to financial hardship; it isn't likely to happen.
    • Dashing a person's dreams is despicable; engendering false hopes when you know better is possibly worse. Warning them of impending calamity is being a friend.
  • I don't do sites which are subversive
    • I don't encourage rants against the government
    • I don't agree with everything our leaders do, but anarchy is not the answer
  • I am loyal to my God and my country
    • God Bless America for the sake of those who are serving and those who are trying to do right; I don't have time to worry about the rest.
  • I don't do porn sites
    • I don't do sites with the following content:
    • Suggestive photographs or situations involving men and/or women. Matthew 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
    • Sites containing profanity, blasphemy or that mock Christian principles. Matthew 12:36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
    • Any site which I deem immoral or unethical; this includes racial or ethnic prejudice and any unfair business practices.
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Matthew 13

44 ¶ Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

Isaiah 12

2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.

3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

Nehemiah 8

10 Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

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To understand the risk involved in interlinked sites you need to understand two things; i.e. what what scripting is and how it is abused. I'm going to illustrate using JavaScript but other scripts are misused in the same way. JavaScript is a scripting language which runs on the client (the users browser in this case) after being downloaded when you browse to the page implementing it. To keep this focused, I'm not going to address Java Applets or other similar client side code but be aware any code running on your site visitors machine is subject to abuse.

As designed JavaScript is intentionally harmless; for example one fundamental precept integral to the language is that it cannot write anything to a users hard-drive without their permission. It can create cookies or read other cookies on the machine if the user has cookies enabled. Note that it can read ALL cookies, not just those it creates for any specific site, after which it could send that harvested information to another site among other ways, encoded in an address bar url. JavaScript as implemented cannot create, modify or even read private files on a site visitors hard drive; so how is it a risk?

Glad you are inquisitive enough to read this far, because if you use the internet this is something you need to know. Every operating system necessarily has a recovery mechanism in place which is invoked when an executable program tries to do something potentially harmful. Among other situations, if a running, executable application tries to access reserved memory locations available only to the operating system this is known as an access violation. Cyber criminals frequently use buffer overflows or overruns to cause an access violation. Why? Because they can establish their own "error handling" routines on a careless or naive users machine.

As stated JavaScript is a scripting language, meaning that it is not executable code. Scripting languages are text-only collections of instructions which the interpreter of that language reads one instruction at a time and executes it subservient to the default and user established options & rules. The JavaScript interpreter is compiled into the users browser and all browsers are executables installed on the users computer.

None of us are perfect and despite enormous effort by the developers to keep JavaScript safe there will always be security risks. That's because there is a literal army of exploiters experimenting with JavaScript to cause the interpreter to attempt to access reserved memory or perform other disallowed operations to cause the operating system to halt the running program. An operating system over-ride in this sense is called an ABEND (Abnormal END).

When that happens, the operating system itself will call the routines intended to handle misbehaving applications. This safeguard is the hook into your site visitors machine used by cyber criminals and script kiddies; remember the decision to allow JavaScript to run belongs to your users; not you. Your site visitors are trusting YOU not to expose them to anything harmful.

Reserved memory reference and buffer overflows are only 2 examples of ways to exploit application and operating system safeguards. Plugging these holes is frequently the cause of the patches you are installing when update Windows or Linux.

This brings us to inter-linked sites and the dangers they pose. When you link between sites you may only be loading images advertising your cohorts site. Quite often you are piping in a JavaScript routine. Even if you can examine the code and have the ability to understand it, can you watch it all the time? Remember it can be changed on the host you are linked to at any time by anyone who gains access to that host; not just your friends.

Side Bar: Pretend for a moment that some internet app has just offered a free scan of your machine for viruses. Are you sure that's really what it's doing? Just so you'll know, I didn't just read this somewhere. I used to create those interlinked sites and I've seen the malicious code first hand; I've been a victim of it too. JavaScript is a valuable tool which adds a new dimension to any site. Unfortunately it is also the focus of attention of dishonest people. Even if you don't have JavaScript on your site, if you exchange links you will not know if it is being piped in.

For these reasons, I am moving away from JavaScript though I personally love the language and have spent a lot of time and money developing the skills. I'm incorporating more CSS solutions all the time to replace JavaScript functionality. I still code it and it's useful, but I won't be responsible for inter-site linking; I would much rather have you offended now than lead you into a trap, even if it means you choose someone else to do your site.  I hope you can respect that.

Advertising a business site is a wise move; just don't spend too much on it and don't get involved with the schemes to make you an overnight success. It isn't going to happen; start small and let it grow. Spend a few moments to read the following.

The "crash of the dot coms" was only the tip of the iceberg and yet, there's still a lot of people lured to the internet thinking they're going to make lot's of money real quick. You can hope to make a little if you work hard for it. There is a host of unethical people out there promising wealth and riches for their so called services. Don't for the sake of honesty, fall for these gimmicks.

Don't fall for the tired, worn out ploy of "submitting your site to hundreds of search engines". The search engines use programs called variously spiders and web crawlers among other things to generate their results. They are constantly updating these to foil the attempts of unethical people to manipulate the system. That's so the whole search engine system won't become unusable for honest people. These schemes were effective in doing their damage many years ago, but the better engines now take measures to protect themselves. Some of the more persistent cheats write their own web crawlers which feed a network of sites owned or influenced by them (or even manually enter information to falsify results) while vigorously trying to hack honest search engines.

Don't pay cyber criminals to blast everyone on the cyber planet with unsolicited emails; spammers are like an overflowing, stopped up toilet. Most of them have a network of honest sites they have hacked into and the unwary owners don't even know they are being used to bounce spam. They are unwittingly paying for bandwidth being used by spammers; that's called stealing. Many of them do their dirty work from sites on foreign soil to avoid prosecution if they get caught, while they themselves live here in the USA. Don't be a cancer on society.

If you have read this far, I hope I haven't bored you; I'm just trying to do what's right and make an honest living. God Bless and I hope you can use my services.