I love programming, and always have. I also enjoy web design. But my main passion is web accessibility. I've helped lots of people to make their sites accessible to the blind and disabled.

Most of what I know about programming has been learned by trial and error. I started out with a book about php and mysql by Julie Meloni. My second book about php is for php5 by Naramore, Gerner, Le Scouarnec, Stolz, and Glass.

Things in php5 are very different then what they were in php4. I'm also dabbling in some xlst now and it's pretty cool.

Then, what I know of SEO comes from the forum where I've been a moderator for 4 years, and a super moderator now for 5 years. Yep, I've been at the same SEO forum for 9 years now. I'm member WebSavvy over there too. It's taken from the name of my domain. ;)

Anyway, if you'd like to have a look at the SEO forum it's here:
http://www.ihelpyou.com/forums/

We don't really get into much programming talk there, which is why I found this forum to be so enjoyable. I may be able to help with what things I know, and pick up information from some of you about things I do not know.

Anyway, it's nice to meet you. :)

Nice to meet you too! And I think you live up to your name!

I've read my fair share of PHP books, some good, some just ok. they are definitley getting bigger though and overtaking my old Perl books.

I like the new stuff in PHP5. I am studying for the PHP cert and it's kind of annoying because it tests you on PHP4 while still needing to know the difference in PHP5. I wish they would just move on and test you on PHP5.

SEO is a good field to be in, with more and more businesses going online, it's a battle of knowledge of how you set up your site for search engines.

I will check out your site that you provided...

Well, this seems to have gone wildly off-topic ...

I'm not really into the whole SEO rat race. I just like to keep up on the tricks the blackhats are using because they're terrible people. They use tricks to do various things to sites that rank above them for the same keyword terms.

Things like googlebowling, where they UnSERP a site.

Googlwhacking, where they sign your site up (like they're you) for all of these link selling/buying/swapping type sites.

Oh, and lots more things like 302 hijacking to steal PR. The list of dirty tricks goes on, and on.

My directory used to index sites of all kinds. Then, I got to see firsthand what tricks blackhats use because they submit clean sites to be indexed and then once it is, they redirect that clean domain to some disgusting pile of web poop that I would never in a million years ever index.

Anyway, my format is changing to index only sites that are web accessible because my site already is (and has been for several years). So, I'm not concerned with ranking for this term or that term, or what PR I may or may not get.

I don't care about any of those things. I just want to make life easier for blind and disabled people by gathering together resources they can actually use, all in one location. My new structure will have over 11,000 web accessible sites listed.

I've tested each one myself, one by one. Each has been tested against the WCAG 2.0 standards and graded A/AA/AAA and has been tested using a screen reader.

OK ... <steps down off web accessibility soapbox> I hope to see you around IHY (the seo forum). It's really a nice group of people over there too, and they're very helpful and know a lot about SEO.