To Introduce myself...

An Introduction is in order. Well first of all my name is Tim Brownlaw. Hi, nice to meet you!

I'm happily married to my wonderful wife Sharon(Shazz) and we have two boys , one a teenager and the younger one trying hard to catch up.

As far as pets go, I think we qualify as candidates for Noahs Ark. We have two little lap dogs - Maltese cross Shizhus - TJ and Oska, Two Cats - Chloe and Lousha, Four Kiwi Grass Parrots who now reside in their spacious (well much bigger than a bird cage) aviary out the back - Floyd, Rhani, Wings and I dont think we've named the new female one yet, and our resident Quakor Parrot, Lex ( we're not sure if its a girl or a boy so I played it safe on his/her name ). Lex is tame and is quite noisy if not let out of the cage to wreak havoc on us all! The dogs are still getting used to Lex and Lex loves to dive bomb them. That's either daring or crazy - time will tell!

Anyway - I'm a full time Electronics Engineer - well only during weekdays - the rest of the time I'm working online. Which I've now been doing for some 3 years. Yes that's a wee while and the journey so far has been very educational. But education is not worth much if not put into practice! Which is what I am now doing in earnest!

My Reasons for being here- online that is!

Well simply, I have one of those conditions that could make me unsuitable for a "Normal Day Time Job". Heres a mouthfull for you - Ankylosing Spondylitis - So I have to look after my family if the time comes where its too difficult for me to drag myself into work each day smiling! The House payments and the Bills wont vanish!

But there are other reasons such as the freedom I'll have - Later on - by working from home! Someone has to do it - right! and there is nothing stopping anyone from doing this - only yourself!

But to date I have been a victim of the dreaded disease of - "Not Being Focused"!

Well thats only partly true - being an engineer I like to know how everything works and the internet is a treasure chest of things to learn, like HTML,CSS,PHP and MySQL databases! So much of my time has been doing small jobs for others! Which is great - I love helping other people out - I even get paid for it now and then and I love learning. Many of these jobs have been for other marketers - in fact I'll blame them for me sitting here spending hours bashing out scripts and helping install other peoples scripts and all that fun stuff. It's actually been really great and something that has lead me to come into contact with some great people whom I now consider my friends! They know who they are!

No Person is an Island - you dont have to be alone!

I'm now a part of a Group of marketers that teach others in all aspects of marketing. It's great being told - "hey Tim thanks - I learnt alot from you today!" Of course I delve into the mysteries of how you can use PHP to do little things with your websites not possible using straight HTML. PHP is a programming language that lets you dynamically generate HTML Pages. In Fact this whole website is written in PHP. It helps me maintain my site a lot easier.

This site is also using style sheets for layout and the colors etc. If you don't care too much for my color selections, remember (as my wife loves to remind me) I'm just a male!

I have a link up on the Navigation Area that'll lead you to some excellent live training - its called the Internet Niche Lab and its run by a very smart bunch of marketing friends who I've met through my association with Kiosk and HotConference through an online conference room. You cannot beat networking with others.

So if you join my newsletter (hint hint) I'll give you a link where you can join Free for a Month to see what its all about! Thats only fair! Then once I get my schedule submitted you'll get to hear my dulcit tones coming through your speakers as we go through some PHP Tips and Tricks. Thats only one of the many subjects that gets covered!

If you find anything on this site that is not working properly, broken or just plain wrong - you are most welcome to contact me