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I am a marketing consultant in the financial services industry with expertise in customer valuation, marketing database architecture, capability assessment and target, channel & offer optimization. If that sounds boring, you're probably right -- but if that sounds interesting, click the button below to see my profile on LinkedIn.

ChuckPrice.com is a personal website created to share life with family and friends.  While portions of the site are public, most content is reserved for people I know who register for access.

Website Milestones

• 2008 - First family video goes online
• 2005 - #1 Google rank for my name
• 2003 - Genealogy database goes online
• 2001 - First webcam goes online
• 2000 - Site moves to chuckprice.com
• 1995 - Initial web site goes live and my SysOp days end

Pre-Web BBS

Before the Internet days, email (then it was often called "echo mail") was sent by computers using dial-up connections. The FidoNet system, invented by Jeff Rush, used a geographically-based strategy of mail distribution to minimize long distance charges.  It grew from 2 PCs in 1984 to about 25,000 PCs at the time I moved to the web in 1995.

People who ran the Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) that sent this email were called SysOps (short for Systems Operators). In addition to email, BBS usually offered shareware programs and online games.  While many BBS existed before FidoNet, the heyday of both lasted from 1985 - 1995.

• 1994 - Reciprocity BBS in Chicago, IL (FidoNet 1:115/296)
• 1992 - I began exchanging internet mail as chival.bogus.com
• 1989 - Chivalry! BBS in Denver, CO (FidoNet 1:104/916)
• 1987 - The Citadel BBS in Portage, IN (FidoNet ?)

The current design is a modification of a theme titled "Zenlike" available for free from FreeCSSTemplates.org.  The design was created by Node Thirty Three.

The site layout is tested with Internet Explorer and Firefox.  Less than 0.5% of visitors use some other browser.  As long as your browser of choice supports CSS Level 2, the site should look fine.  If not, consider Firefox, which is free and available here:

All pages are designed to be error-free XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS 2.1. You may click the icons below to confirm.

The site has been hosted on a computer in my basement since 2004. It is currently running on Windows Small Business Server 2008.  The site sits on top of a Microsoft SQL Server database.

An SSL certificate has been installed on the server.  While secure communication with your browser is available, no personal information is used by the site once you have registered.  The certificate is installed to ensure secure email communications for the domain.

I use Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 and Adobe Photoshop CS4 to develop and design the site.  Photos are processed into the photo albums using Adobe Lightroom 2 and videos are rendered with Adobe Premiere Elements 7. 

I currently use a Canon EOS 5D Mark II (21 mp) body.  Older photos were shot with cameras as low as 1.5mp in resolution   Photos older than 1999 are scanned from prints, negatives or slides. 

Kathy currently uses a Canon PowerShot 800IS.

The two newer cameras allow user control.  They are Linksys WVC-series cameras.  The older three webcams are Creative Live! Wireless cameras.  Images from the cameras are updated by the site every few seconds via a custom script.