Forgive me for posting this here but a very great friend of ours, Dan Schulz, just passed away and this is the board he frequents the most on DP as far as I know. I believe most of people here know him because he is such a talented coder and writer, and because he has helped thousands of total strangers unconditionally when they are lost. I once asked him a quick question via PM and he answered it with a very detailed reply consisting of nearly a thousand words. He's truly a great guy. Prayers for your family who are still suffering and may them get well soon. Dan, we love you and will miss you forever!
Dan has been my friend for over thirteen years, and we were friends long before he started doing anything with web development. I can remember when he was so proud of his first website - tossed together like the best of us of the era in Frontpage and slapped up on Geocities. I gave him free hosting because I saw his potential, and took him under my wing when it came to web development - most of his early sites being a full on collaboration between us. Many of his opinions came from me, and many of my opinions came from him as we were often of two minds on the subject of getting cleaner/leaner/faster/less bandwidth hungry websites into circulation WITHOUT sacrificing on appearance, accessibility, layout or SEO. I got him into cleaner coding, in return he's the one who got me into semantic markup. The past few years his SEO knowledge was a valuable resource to me just as my coding advice was to him... and I'm not sure what I'm going to do without him. As I've said several times about him, eventually the apprentice became the master as we continued to push each-other to strive to do things better. I've lost not just a business partner and friend, but for all intents and purposes the little brother I never had. We talked via IM almost all day every day for thirteen years and despite living a thousand miles apart have gotten together more than once in person. I now feel like there's a void as I no longer have a sounding board I've come to rely upon to keep me grounded so far as pie in the sky ideas are concerned. I was PROUD as all hell to call my friend the man I had watched grow up from a wee lad. He was loyal, generous to a fault, and a true rarity in this day and age: a decent human being. But if I know Dan, he's probably up there arguing with St. Peter on how 90% of SEO 'experts' are nothing more than scam artists... and trying to get them to update the Pearly Gates website to something more modern - and how such a recode could save them on hosting costs. Give 'em hell Dan.
Haha, that's some funny stuff there Dan. Especially the seo experts. That's a bummer that he died though.