So you want to know about the site, eh? Okay ...

First, I will show you this:

The site is best viewed at at least 800x600 resolution, in a web standards-compliant browser (although navigation is a little awkward in Lynx; the menu shows at the bottom of the page). All material presented, unless otherwise stated, is © 2001, 2002, 2003 Lindel M. Jones.

That said, I have modified a CSS found at The Layout Reservoir, a web resource offering style sheets for any who want them. All credit for the original CSS belongs to BlueRobot.

Second, we have this section, which I call Why I Named this Site chainsmokingdryad.

When I started MUDding on Solace (a Dragonlance MUD), I played an elven druidess, and was selected to become a builder by the head imp. I then began playing the goddess Mishakal. Soon enough, the other imms began calling me Mish. So that's how I got that name.

After a while, I met a girl named Jaimie, and we hung out a bit together, including spending a day at the local Elizabethan-era gardens. We spent a bit of time in the trees, and started calling each other "Dryad" (a tree spirit). Some time passed, and she had to write a short story about her life in a college class. She chose a difficult time, of which I was a part (I wasn't difficult, I helped her through it). She described me as a chain-smoking dryad (when we first met, she mentioned that I smelled of flowers and smoke ... the flower scent was from Herbal Essences shampoo). That then became part of my online personality. Hence the domain name chainsmokingdryad.

Number three, and maybe the most important: both my markup and CSS have been validated by the World Wide Web Consortium. The markup is valid HTML 4.01 Strict (index page given as a default, but all my other pages validate, too) and the CSS is CSS2. Go ahead, validate away, if you've nothing better to do. It's all valid.

Short explanation: this page (and all the others on the site) should look consistent across browsers and platforms. Well, not all browsers; don't complain to me if your v2.0 browser is mangling the page. Update that thing! I recommend Mozilla, but there are other options, like MSIE, if you like your browser to be slow, ugly, and non-customisable.

Actually, that's about all I have. I can give a quick and relatively accurate history of my websites: first an Angelfire page (very embarassing), then another one (less embarassing), a Geocities page (not so bad, my first experience with frames; it was called "burnout ©entral"), an ISP-hosted page (essentially the same as the Geocities site with a few improvements), a Network Solutions-hosted page (the first appearance of chainsmokingdryad; went through two incarnations there), and now I am hosted by Lunarpages (the Shuttle Plan, if you were wondering).