Hello and welcome to my virtual home. My name is Christine Louise Beems. I am sixty-something <smile>, a mother, a homemaker and a working professional. A decade ago I conceptualized gozarks.com as a friendly, community-oriented, integrity-driven ezine. My homegrown publication made its online debut April 19, 2000 and except for one host-server-transfer bump in the road, has been around continuously ever since.
Looking back to these humble beginnings, it could be said that gozarks was among the first of what are now called blogs. Of course the technology at that time was not so convenient as it is today. WordPress and other OpenSource applications are making big changes in the way website development things are done, which is much for the good.
No more must one learn HTML code or even know what a cascading style sheet (CSS) is in order to create an attractive, functional, feature-rich website. Now one can simply sign-up, login, and with nearly no effort post content (articles, graphics, video, music, etc.) directly online. This particular blog-site, for example, was created the morning of August 7, 2009, in less than two hours, which included selecting an overall design (from one of many templates), setting up various ‘categories’ to organize the various content-filled pages I am in the process of creating, publishing my first official editorial post and adding these comments to this About Gozarks page.
In light of these technological developments, the primary purpose the content posted to my gozarks domain has changed too. Now representative of my professional work in media, communications and business development, my editorials and (bright witty) comments are (when I find time to transcribe my thinking) posted here. ~~~
