"The sixties were good to me . . . ."
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Publisher, Web Developer's Journal
Bruce Morris
Bruce Morris is the Publisher of The Web Developer's Journal. He is an author, writing about the Internet industry and has been involved in some interesting eCommerce projects.
As Technology Director for the Internet side of television and media owner Carlton Communications. Plc., he is responsible for the technical side of launching 3 major Web sites building a technical team and overseeing development of a state-of-the-art high-capacity server farm. He is involved in strategic Internet consulting and is based in London.
He spent 2 years as Global Internet Manager at Gateway 2000 where he was
responsible for planning and building the company's Internet departments,
building Web sites in 5 languages for 9 countries. He was responsible
for setting corporate Internet strategies and goals, recruited and led the
Web teams that built and manage the Gateway 2000 Web sites with sales growing from $0
to over $1 million in less than 6 months. After establishing the Internet
Department at Gateway in North Sioux City, USA, Mr. Morris spent time in
Australia, Japan, and Europe building Internet departments and supervising
construction of multi-language Web sites for Gateway 2000 in those regions.
The author of HTML in Action and developer of "Duct Tape HTML" he has insulted numerous provincial HTML fundamentalist groups with his "in your face" pages.
"I make no apologies if this page looks like crap on your browser. I'm going to use the most interesting HTML extensions I can find - legal or not. They may only be able to be viewed with bleeding edge browsers. Then again, I may have made a terrible mistake!"
With his associate Paige Turner, he co-developed and helped popularize the WeeNIX operating system. "No way am I gonna be stuck with just command line or silly windows" he said in a recent candid moment.
In 1990, he was Tennessee State Champion Pole Bender and Reserve World Champion Amateur Pole Bender. A graduate of Woodstock and other '60s renaissance events, he was production manager of ThirdEar Magazine based in Washington D.C. during the '60s and early '70s which permanently altered the way he looks at business and life. He enjoys scuba diving, blues guitar, red wine, fast horses and is a well-traveled road warrior.
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