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    MSROCAI:  Mike Steele's Realm of Creation and Imagination.  This is my personal plot of the Internet.
    Mike Steele's Realm of Creation and Imagination (MSROCAI) and all of the files that compose MSROCAI are the intellectual property of Mike Steele.  MSROCAI was coded from scratch by Mike Steele with the following exceptions:  Bravenet supplies the hit counter and the form submission scripts; HTML Gear supplies the guestbook.  While accessing the source code for MSROCAI is encouraged to promote knowledge about personal website development, do not copy the source code from MSROCAI and publish it as your own website.
    All content on MSROCAI is the intellectual property of Mike Steele.
    MSROCAI is currently hosted by Tripod's free hosting service; the URL is http://infiniteinfinity.tripod.com.  MSROCAI was originally hosted by XOOM.com, and it has at times been located on Geocities, Homestead, and FortuneCity.  The demise of the free services offered by those hosts led me to Tripod; but since Tripod has proven to be an incredibly reliable, hassle-free, easy-to-use, versatile hosting service, I think that the collapse of those other entities ultimately worked in my favor.  Speaking of collapsing Internet services, there is no longer a URL redirect pointing to MSROCAI because, apparently, cjb.net is weak.
    MSROCAI does not rely on any fancy-pants code or any other nonsense to deliver itself to your eyeballs.  Each page is basic HTML with a Cascading Style Sheet controlling all of the fonts and colors--CSS is so simple to implement and so commonly used, however, that I would hardly consider it "fancy-pants."  The only real trick behind MSROCAI is a pair of JavaScripts that use the "document.write" function to maintain the general layout of the website:  the borders, alignment, and content of the banner, the menu, and the footer.  Those JavaScripts are just storing the HTML for those parts of the website and recalling them each time a page is loaded, so, again, nothing all that fancy.  Consequently, though, MSROCAI will not display properly unless your browser has scripts enabled.
    That being said about the coding, I did build this website from scratch.  I do use Microsoft FrontPage 2002, but I only do so because of the ease of previewing pages with that program.  The Bravenet services that I use--the hit counter and the form submission scripts--and the guestbook (from HTML Gear) are the only parts of MSROCAI that I didn't personally create.  I therefore ask that you don't blatantly steal the source code of this website; by all means look at it to figure out how I made MSROCAI so awesome, but don't rip me off.
    I use WS_FTP95 LE to maintain the files on my Tripod account.  The program has proven itself very reliable over the years, so I strongly recommend it if you're looking to do some FTP'ing of your own.
    I build and maintain MSROCAI on my personal computer:  Microsoft Windows XP Professional, AMD Athlon XP 2400+ 2.00-GHz processor, 224 MB of RAM, 40 GB of hard drive space, 19" monitor set to 1280 x 1024.  Firefox is my browser of choice, so I make sure that MSROCAI is compatible with it as well as Internet Explorer.