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This is BonniNet. It is the personal domain of Bonni Elizabeth Hall, known playfully as The Domain Goddess, i.e., me. It is an ongoing expression of self, a continually evolving work of design, art, writings, research, and whatever else pops into my head to put here. It's big, rambling, and multi-faceted, because I happen to be big, rambling, and multi-faceted.

Site Design

This swirly fantasy-grunge psychadelic theme was created in October 2007. I did all of it in Photoshop, Dreamweaver (although I do code by hand, thankyou), and TopStyle Pro.

I recommend viewing this site in Firefox at 1024x768 resolution (or higher). I really recommend Firefox for all purposes. It's fabu. Check it out. Seriously. It's safer, more secure, and customisable, and it's absolutely FREE.

Most of the site should be usable (or at least be readable) with most older browsers and at lower screen resolution (800x600), but no guarantees on the resolution thing. It should all work with the graphics turned off.

JavaScript is necessary to view a few of the pages in a couple of the sub-sites, and to use the drop-down menu on these main pages. Since my logs indicate that the vast, overwhelming majority of my visitors do, indeed, have JavaScript capable browsers, I don't think this will be a problem (but if it is a problem for you, you're welcome to let me know).

Oh, and if you're using WebTV (now known as MSN TV), you have my condolences. The web looks pretty crappy when viewed on a television set. This site looks particularly crappy, I'm sure.

At no time will you be required to have a special plug-in to view or navigate these pages. None of these pages will make noise at you (although there are places where you may choose to listen to sound files if you want to). And you will not be asked (or expected) to download anything. Ever. I hate it when that happens.

All of the graphics within this domain are original (unless otherwise specifically indicated). They're all built out of pixels and electronic digits with the aid of some tools such as Photoshop, various image filters, one or more 3D imaging program, a scanner, a digital camera, a huge collection of fonts, and a digital pen tablet, and years of digital design experience and some basic higher education in Fine and Applied Art and Design.

Site Content

This domain contains hundreds of pages (last time I bothered to count) and numerous sub-sites. There are lots of reasons for this.

Firstly, I am a diverse and electic person who has lots of diverse and eclectic interests. Secondly, I'm pretty good at ferreting out information on the web and at writing informational theses, and some of the things I've learned strike me as being interesting enough to share with the world at large. And well, when you've been making web pages since 1994, you tend to accumulate a lot of them, and most of them are housed on this domain. Thirdly, well, I just like making websites and writing stuff.

I decided some years ago never to live with "skeletons in the closet" of my life any more, and to live openly and freely, sharing myself, my experiences, and my insights with whomever feels like listening. That apparently a lot of people do seem to enjoy reading my thoughts, rants, research, and miscellaneous ideas never ceases to amaze and delight me. Those who don't are welcome to visit some other website with the blessing of the Domain Goddess.

This domain is rated PG-13 (or, by Australian standards, M for mature audiences). There is some very mild swearing here and there, there are some very strongly worded opinions expressed in very strong terms in a few places, and some of the subject matter of some of the sub-sites is strong stuff, to be sure. Occasionally I link to material that isn't work safe (always with a warning). But really, there's nothing here that would offend most people. And if you're someone who is easily offended, you shouldn't be here at all. I have a tendency to rattle cages, sometimes without even trying. Please don't say you weren't warned.

Oh, and because I don't know what you want or don't want your kids reading, please supervise them when they're on the net. It's not my job, and I don't censor my pages to make them "child safe". Too much depends on the child in question. K thanks.

Because there are only 24 hours in a day, at least four of the sub-sites on this domain will probably be out of date and/or require maintenance at any given time. If there were 48 hours in a day and eight days in a week, I could keep everything perfectly up-to-date and polished and perfect, but, alas, I have to do the Four Letter Doubleyou Word (it ends with "k" in case you don't know which one I mean) and I have a family and a life (let me quote my former boss, Aaron, when I say, "I miss not having a life. I got a lot more done."), and several other domains to look after as well as this one. Web development isn't exactly my life's priority these days, if you take my meaning.

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