Lee Simpson

Lee Simpson - Author for NetSource Tips

Back in the infancy of the world wide web, frames were a pretty useful tool.  They allowed a designer to have multiple panels on a page with one or more displaying consistent content (like a menu).  With the advent of the modern web programming languages such as Active Server Pages (ASP), PHP & ASP.Net, frames are now really nothing more than a relic of the past. In fact, they can actually be harmful to your site’s performance in the search engines and your customer’s user experience. [click to continue…]

How can ProductCart help your business?

December 7, 2009

Really the title of this blurb should be ‘How can a shopping cart help your business?’ – but since ProductCart is our e-commerce solution of choice here at NetSource, we’ll stick with that title.  For any business with any kind of product base, whether retail, manufacturing or wholesale, a listing of those products on the [...]

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Web Language

September 30, 2009

It can be a bit confusing trying to figure out what language people are using to communicate on the web with.  “I’ve got one of those HTML pages” or “My site is dot net!” – but what does that really mean?  How can we distill something more than “My site is better than yours.” Hopefully [...]

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Lee graduated from the University of Florida with a B.S. in Computer Science in 1999. He has been part of the Netsource programming staff since January 2000. He also enjoys crushing fellow staff in Mario Kart Wii.

Lee Simpson — a portrait

What do you do at NetSource Technologies, and how long have you worked here?
I have worked here since January 2000 and am a programmer.

Lee Simpson

Lee Simpson

Birthday: November 30

Favorite Color: Blue

Hometown/Where have you lived?
Born: St. Petersburg, FL –> Oxford, FL –> Ocala, FL

What is your favorite part of your job?
Being able to see the things that you create work and function properly.

When did you become interested in computers and technology?
In the mid 1980′s, my family purchased an IBM PC jr.  – I believe it all started with a game called King’s Quest.  I’ve enjoyed computers since then and I suppose I’ve never had a desire to do anything else for a career.

What piece of technology could you not live without?
A computer w/ Internet access is pretty much a necessity for conducting life nowadays.

What do you like to do on the weekends?
Enjoy my family – time passes by too quickly.

What is your favorite musician or type of music?
Right now my favorite band is NEEDTOBREATHE.

What is your favorite sport? Do you have a favorite team?
The Atlanta Braves – starting in the mid ’80s we watched them on TBS every chance we got.

What are your favorite movies?
Epic type movies – Lord of the rings, Gladiator, Star Wars, Narnia, …

Twitter or Facebook? (and why)
Neither – never.

Tell us about your family!
My beautiful wife Tammi (age withheld) and 2 daughters: Brianna (6) and Aubrynn (3).

Do you have any pets?
Tyson, a black lab & Dolphy, a beta fish.

How do you think technology and/or web design will change in the next 10-20 years?
Technology will continue to make things such as newspaper and telephone books obsolete.  As such, the web will need to absorb that information and make it available and usable to people.  So the web and technology devices will need to continue to evolve to accommodate this.  Not only will technology meet current needs but I think it will also create the needs which itself will have the solution for.  (If that made any sense…)

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