Her voice was soft and low. I saw her from a distance,
as if she were in a dream.
"I want all the words in my own poems to speak for themselves...
Just as I want all the hearts I`ve collected, the wonderful angels,
the horses, the flowers... and Winnie the Pooh & his friends to
stand up and speak for themselves, too.
I want the colors and shapes of the clipart... and the few
words I have written by myself, to stand out clearly on each page".
After a deep sigh, she continued: "I have every respect for
people all around our Mother Earth who have home pages with
complicated designs and heavy-duty special effects and all that, but...
as I just said; I want my own page to be clean and simple.
And I have already told you WHY I want it just that way, do you see?"
I quickly answered her by nodding. Because I understood her very well.
Perfectly well. In fact, I couldn`t help feeling that I knew her
as well as I knew myself. She and I really had a lot in common!
Then she continued: "If people do`nt like my home page just because
it`s clean and simple... well, then... ~ that`s up to them! And you
can`t enjoy every website containing complicated designs and
heavy-duty special effects, can you? Can you?"
Just that moment, I woke up! Had I been watching myself in a dream?
I stretched my whole body, moaned a bit, stood up and put my
clothes on.
The words "No, I can`t" tumbled around in my head.
In our living room after one hour`s nap, I immediately told
my dear husband about the very strange dream I just had.
When I had finished my story, he began to laugh.
He shooked his head slowly, while he said: "Your dream was not
strange at all, honey. Because you want your own home page to
be just like that right now, do`nt you?"
I really considered this for a long time. My dear was still laughing.
"You`re right", I said after many minutes. "You`re absolutely right,
my dearest!" He deserved a big kiss, and that`s exactly what he got.
He suddenly stopped laughing. "You want your website to be simple
and easy... just the opposite of what your own life was like before
we met each other?" After that one I became totally speechless.
He was right, I thought to myself.
After an hour or so, he slowly looked up from the PC magazine
he was reading, and said: "Kristine?"
"Hmmm...?" I answered.
"You know that in June this year, 2003, I will have completed two
years of full time studies?"
"Of course!" I replied.
"And you know that my official title then will be Web Designer?"
he asked me. "That`s quite correct, as we all know...
~ MISTER!", was my very quick answer.
He had my full and complete attention, now.
"And then I can design a homepage for you...
a fancy, complicated page with lots of special effects,
especially for you, my dear!"
Oh me, oh my... ~ that stinker...!
He was laughing. And I said: "No way, you silly fool ~ no way!"
"Just tell me if you ever change your mind, then, please!"
He was just teasing me, merely teasing, I knew.
But I also knew that he really meant what he just had said.
"No way", I repeated, and stood up from the sofa.
`But...`, I thought to myself, in the silence of my mind, on my way
to our guinea pigs and rats in the kitchen, `Maybe...? Maybe I`ll
ask him to make me a real, professional web home.. Mabe I really
will, one day in the future?`
Sometimes he knows me better than I do!
And that fact can scare me a bit, from time to time.
But this is really good to know, too!
The next day, I began constructing my new homepage.
And you can view the result of that work here at ANYA`S site now:
A clean and simple layout. Just like that!