I’m Ernie…

Ernies High

I am the ernie of “Ernies High”. I am a freelance web developer and have been pretty much since 2010. Before then I was a carpenter building “houses, stores, and banks”1. I have been and done other things as well but they are probably best not mentioned, anyways not in polite company.

I first started playing with HTML & later CSS in the 90’s using Windows 95.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Draft//EN">
<html>

<head>
    <title> A minimal document </title>
</head>

<body bgcolor="#00ffff">
    <h2 align=center>
        <font size="6" color=#ff0000>Old School HTML</font>
    </h2>
    <center>
        <p>
            <font size="3" color="#ffffff">This is how HTML used to work</font>
        </p>
    </center>
</body>

</html>

The above would produce something like

Old School HTML

Over the years I updated my HTML/CSS knowledge, adding various skills such as JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, MySQL… On or about the winter of 2010 I started looking into this as a way to make a living and started getting into WordPress.

Over the years I updated my HTML/CSS knowledge, adding various skills such as JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, MySQL… On or about the winter of 2010 I started looking into this as a way to make a living and started getting into WordPress.

As a freelance developer, I look for web development projects finding some that are people looking to improve the speed/performance of their site. While auditing these sites, I found that the most common issues are multiple stylesheets and Javascript/jQuery files being added. These files are added by 3rd party frameworks, so-called page builders, and other plugins. Many of which are not needed.

I have worked with most page builders over the years and to be honest I am not sure that they do make the world easier. Frameworks tend to add a lot of cool stuff but most of it is never used nor will it be. So I wanted to build a theme/site without all that BS.

According to the Google gods this page needs 300 words about “Ernies High”. Not sure who put them assholes in charge but hey what do I know. I am at 268 words and ran out of things to say, so sorry Google live with it.

  1. “Grandpa Was A Carpenter” a song by John Prine 1973 ↩︎