A word from the webmaster
All materials on this site, with the exception of the quoted sources, have been written by Oleg Chmelev, who is solely responsible for its content.
This page provides information about who runs this site, as well as some technical notes on the design of it.
Some technical notes about the design of this site
In addition to this site, I maintain several other ones:
noHypertension.info
noAccent.net
noArthritis.info
India300.com
badNursing.com
notSmoking.info
weRun.ws
surviveHospital.com
getSite
IDLoser
As you can well imagine, it takes time to maintain several websites. Making small changes, additions is an ongoing process.
Because of that, it makes sense to name the files in such a way that I could easily recognize them just by looking at the file name.
Considering how little time I can afford to spend on this, I have to implement certain safeguards to make sure I do not end up inadvertently uploading files from one site to another site's folder on a server.
That is the reason for some odd file names on this site, e.g. "contfluo.htm" instead of "contact.htm", "legalflu.htm" instead of "legal.htm" and so on. But this item is probably of no interest to a visitor.
Rendering in different browsers
Making a site render uniformly across different browsers is probably webmaster's biggest headache.
Since browsers other than MS Internet Explorer seem to expand the block style elements to a greater extent, three style sheets have been provided - one common, another one for MSIE and the third one for all other browsers.
The common style sheet has the default value of width for some block elements to accommodate those visitors who prefer to disable JavaScript on their browsers.
Since FireFox adjusts size even for fonts with fixed declaration, font size for headings have been made smaller, than I would otherwise prefer.
This was done to prevent heading breaking-up on larger font-size selections.
If your display settings in Windows are on "high contrast" (black background, yellow font), my sites would still render in normal colors, unless, of course you have set different browser preferences
As far as the choice of a background color is concerned, I believe that for a site with a considerable amount of text it is better not to use white background, as it is very tiring for the eyes.
I have set the display mode on my computers to "high contrast" (black background, yellow font) for that very reason.
All my browsers are set up to force my own selection of a background, which is a light-to-medium gray.
Site structure
Even though this site is still under construction, I try to keep its structure the same it will be when finalized.
For example, a particular page may have just one or two links. Why not move the link to the common set of links or to combine pages?
This is because any changes in the structure of the website are likely to affect the search engine ranking; the site may even be removed from the index and placed into a "quarantine" for several weeks.
That is why it is better to avoid changes to the structure of the site, as much as possible.
References to the Internet resources.
Certain materials, which are published on other sites, may be mentioned or quoted on this site.
Direct link is not always provided, but instead the search terms are suggested.
I believe this is a more reliable way of presenting information.
Content on many Internet sites is routinely rearranged, moved around; for example, recent news may be in one folder on a site, but as the time passes by, those pages may be shifted into an archive folder.
Because of that, as well as other reasons, materials on such sites cannot be reliably referenced through a link, as those may well become invalid after a while.
I used to stumble on dead links even on Google, which probably has the highest "refresh rate" of all search engines.
As for the "secondary" search engines, it is a routine thing to find a link there, which had been dead for over a year!
Some "upscale" sites may have normal-looking links, but those are generated through a script and the pages are generated "on-the-fly".
Because of that, providing a search term or a general description is overall more reliable (and manageable for a webmaster).
And finally, I would like to apologize for any possible instances of poor composition, errors or misspellings.
I started learning English well after that age when the native speech reflexes get firmly "wired" into one's brain.
And I got immersed into an English-speaking environment only at the age of 26.
I diligently read several books on English composition and style and overall I think I can adequately express my thoughts.
I also do not feel that hard-pressed to spellcheck my writing; and that is why the "visual spellchecking" is the only cost-effective way for me to write.
Besides, a software spellchecker cannot catch misspelings, which resulted in a substitution of one word for another legit word. For example:
"Things have been steadily improving _every_ since"
We keep it under a lock and key, so that nobody would entertain an idea of _steeling_ it.
I _steel_ cannot figure it out.
But, of course, it is only inevitable that I may fail to notice a misspelled word once in a while, and I apologize for that.
I have to say that some authors are rather blunt about it. In one of the ebooks, which I downloaded a while ago, I have seen this statement:
Studies have shown that some people like finding typo's (sic) and errors. They have been left in just for those people. Enjoy finding them!
I think that even though this kind of a language is rather disrespectful, especially considering the fact that it is directed to the paying customer; it nevertheless reflects a simple reality, that unless we try to do things in a cost-effective way, there may be no time left to enjoy the better things in life.
This eBook is available from IDLoser.com