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I am the web master, Bill Frisinger.  I can be reached at:    bill@frisinger.net

Please let me know of any problems you find with the site and feel free to offer suggestions.  I am an atrocious speller and would appreciate your suggestions about alternate spellings that might be more in keeping with Webster.

As with all web hosts, I want to know about any dead links.  Weeding them out is a never ending task.

I am also a miserable speller so feel free to let me know about any errors, I promise not to take offense.  Also let me know about anything else you think I should hear.

I have started to make the site more handicapped accessible.  I am using a shareware program, A-Prompt version 1.0.6 to help in this. This program is a joint effort of the University of Toronto and the University of Wisconsin.

Moving About:
Try double clicking on all pictures, most have links (as shown by the way the curser changes shape when it  is over it)  Ditto for underlined  for text in blue.  There may be a menu item at the back of the new page that will bring you back or you may have to use the back arrow in the upper left corner of your browser.  My newer pages do a better job of having these links but they will all have them eventually.

Purpose of this web site:

• Home page for Ava Frisinger, Mayor of Issaquah Washington
• A source of general political information of interest to residents of Issaquah Washington.  This is non partisan but does reflect a certain amount of personal bias.  I try to keep the bias visible.
• Bill and Ava Frisinger Family home page.
• Information about our favorite summer vacation spot in McGregor Bay Ontario, Canada

Preferred Web Browser
My attempt is to make this site work equally well with all browsers.  I build it with Microsoft Front Page version 4.0 and normally use Opera 7.53.  I also use Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.  I try to check all pages with Netscape Navigator 4.06 to assure compatibility.  I know the Diane web pages are not at all Netscape compatible.  

Some Site Statistics

2002  2005  2005

 9/2     6/9   10/18 

  253      586       610  Pictures

  293      343       382  External Hyperlinks

  760    1249     1402 Internal Hyperlinks

  326      695       748 Files

   8.8     43.3      44.5 Megs

    82      133       133  Seconds, Time to download the 

                                  slowest page at 28.8

                29      31    Number of pages taking more than 

                                 30 seconds at 28.8

I cannot remember when the site first got started but it was up by the summer of 1997.  It was originally hosted by my internet service provider and I used Microsoft Word as my HTML editor.  In January 2000 I got my own web address and started using Front Page around that time.  Front Page is probably over kill but Microsoft Word was definitely underkill.

I try to check for dead links about every 6 months.  As anybody who hosts a web site knows, keeping up with changes in linked pages is always a job and sometimes great information seems to disappear entirely.  When ever you find a dead link let me know.  I hate it when someone says "Oh, that site has been down for months."

Usage

This is not the busiest web site on the net as the following table shows

The above table is the number of hits (visits) on my Home and Island starting pages respectively.  The static from my web hosting company look much different, for example for June 2005 they reported 2,402 visits and 37,629 hits (request for any page or graphic).  Part of the difference may be that if a person visits 2 pages it counts as two visits.  

Why is this a .net site?   Nothing else seemed to fit any better and frisinger.com was taken.  Since this is not a business  .com did not seem particularly appropriate any way.  This may grow into the e-mail address for a lot of Frisingers so .net would make more sense.

Web Host
This web site is being hosted by http://www.fatcow.com and am paying $99/Year.  At this time I am quite satisfied with their service.
This rate includes:

• 1 GB of Disk Space for Your Files  (I use 0.04 GB)
• 30 GB of Monthly Data Transfer
• 100 Email Accounts   (I have occasionally had problems with my e-mail being blocked at certain sites, particularly AOL, because spanners were also using Fat Cow.  The problem usually clears up in a few days.  If not you can set your e-mail to send out through your internet service provider.  This does not effect the e-mail address people use to send mail to you.)
• 25 Meg storage for each e-mail address  (Can be enlarged, when I was taking a long vacation I requested 50 Meg and got 75 at no charge)
• ShopSite Starter    (Have not used it)
• CGI, PHP         (I do not even know what this is but I assume it is good or they would not be bragging about it)
• Friendly Toll Free Support  (and I found that to be so.)
• 30-day Money Back Guarantee
• Webstats  (Quite confusing but I assume theirs is the standard form)
• Brightmail Anti-Spam™  (Works great!!)
• WebMail     Works OK, sometimes I have problems with attachments.  I have not bugged their support people about it yet as I can always get everyting when I get back home.