This computer illiterate 64 year old man is looking for an unconventional website artist to draw up the backround for my home page. I am not rich!! Thank You!!

So where's that page and what's it about?

If you will, imagine either a cro-magnon or a human infant ( the messenger paynal ) having just come through a vortex or a wormhole to our present Earth and seeing the dysfunctional conditions he summons the flying dragons of truth and justice through the vortex or wormhole.

paynal.com

You should look for any freelancer resource and ask there.

If you want an interesting website, Sir, you can search for a template on www.oswd.org. You need to know only most basic html (like making paragraphs, titles or links) to make your website. Be self-confident and brave : ) I guess you have some younger , more 'computer-smart' acquaintances to help you if you need is Sir. (I can also help and explain as easy as I will be able to if you want)

Don't know if you're looking for that, but maybe this will help.

Thanks Mmmisiu!! I sure wish I had some computer wise ( older or younger ) " friends " I could ask to help me with this but I don't.

Most of my relatives live out of state ( a lot of them are working two jobs now because of the slumping economy ). The wisest computer experts I know of are on linux websites and that is why I sought help here.

I will check out the link you provided tonight. Again my thanks!!

You're welcome : )

If you choose a website layout from there, Sir, I can help you (as I said before). If you need any help, you can contact me at mmmisiu @ gmail . com (it will be much quicker than via this forum I guess) If you feel very weak and completely don't know what to do, you can even send me the name of a template from that site and text you want to put there, Sir, and I can make it for you : ) (for free of course, don't worry).

I have 67yo aunt who also is experimenting now with computers... I look up to people like you because of your willingness to take part in Internet and technology life (which is totally not common in my country, usually people older than 40 are, as you called yourself, computer illiterates) and I am always happy when I can help.

Mmmisiu, my sons bought me a reconditioned computer as a Christmas present many years ago. It had windows 95 installed on it and all I used it for was to type letters. After I moved to Staten Island I brought the computer to a shop where it was upgraded with windows 97 and I went onto the Internet.

When I was young I spent a lot of my spare time at the library looking things up, especially history. To me the Internet was like being in the library again; where I could go off on any tangent I wanted to.

It did not take long for that first computer to get flooded with cookies and start to burn out. In 2001 or 2002 I bought my present computer which came equiped with windows xp. So how did I know I was supposed to send money to microsoft for their os?? I deleted a lot of their pre-packaged software and installed " Easy Office " from Canada.

I went through years of purchasing " protective " software and getting hard drive reformats as well as subscribing to Mr. Modem for help ( he probably saved my sanity ). I had things happen to me that he had never before encountered.

A lot of my friends, relatives, and neighbors had worse things happen to them than I did because they got involved with Internet banking and bill paying. One of my cousins has a friend who is a certified C.P.A. and she discovered that A.O.L. had stolen thousands of dollars from his checking account. She sent aol a certified letter and aol mailed back a check to my cousin without any protest at all.

I told my cousin they had probably stolen three times what the accountant found out about. Other folks have gone into their banks and found all of their money gone.

One of the things I bought was a Kerio firewall. It was this software that revealed to me all of the " phone home " applications microsoft and hp ( computer brand ) had put into my computer. Microsoft could not penetrate that Kerio firewall so they bought the company.

I bought a set of xp discs from hp for my computer and I bought a suse 10 os at the same best buy store that I bought the computer in and I have been using linux on the Internet ever since Nov. of 2005.

I only had to have my hard drive reformed again once since using Linux because something was on I cd that I played on my computer. ( I don't play any more cd's on my computer because of that. )

I tell people I feel like a pre-schooler walking around a graduate school when I visit any linux forum. I laugh at my own computer incompetence as I'm quite sure others do. I'm rambling, sorry!!!