About Omegacron

Hi, there - I'm your host, Jacob Wilson. I'm that handsome guy to the right, there. This is the part of the site where I tell you about myself, so here goes:

Formerly known on the Internet and AOL as "BoneChill" for about eight years, I adopted the moniker "Omegacron" in mid-2001. My interests include science fiction, comic books, toy collecting, web design, golf, and bowling. I have red hair, five kids, two cars, one wife, and a dog. Yep - life is good.

I currently work in the IT field, as a network admin/tech support/web designer kind of guy. I've always been interested in personal computers, since the introduction of the first ones (see my Commodore 64 section for details). Of course, this interest expanded to include video games, and later, web sites and the Internet in general. I taught myself HTML back around 1996, and the rest is, as they say, history. Now, nearly a decade later, I've designed numerous sites for individuals and companies, and even run my own web design business on the side, code-named Alphacron Digital (www.alphacron.com).

About the Site

When I first designed my site back in '96, my knowledge of HTML was severely limited. I first learned HTML by viewing the source of other web pages, then tearing it apart to see which tags did what. Perhaps not the most efficient method, but it worked. The resulting pages, however, lacked style. That came later, with experience and a book or two. Anyway, the site was originally launched using the whopping 2 megabytes of space given by AOL. It had 5 sections, each consisting of one or two pages. In the six or seven incarnations since, the site has increased to include 7 seperate sites, a huge comics gallery, a downloads section, and more - over 700 pages altogether, and about 1700 images.

The site was tested in Netscape 7.01 and Internet Explorer 6.01 at resolutions 1024x768 and 800x600. The site is optimized for the latest browsers at 1024x768 resolution. It now utilizes CSS in all areas as well as Flash and DHTML in several. I originally tuned it to look better in Netscape, but let's face it - unless FireFox is as cool as they say - IE's still gonna be top dog for a while. So, I'm slowly tuning it back towards IE.