David F Forester — Renaissance Man

davidf (@) davidforester.com

Web Design | SEO | Photography | Expressions

All my life I have been involved with communications be it radio, film or photography, and emerging technologies primarily computer technology. It started when i was very young, receiving advanced mathematics training from my dad, at the time, a university science professor. By the time I entered high school I had taken all the math and physics offered, so I took Fortran and found it fascinating. Our programs were written long hand on a form that was sent to the district office for punch card creation and a ride through the districts mainframe to be returned a few days later with a computer printout of the results. This was around 1969, during the summer of love, which I am just old enough to have participated in. Only two years later, at the young age of 17 and with the teamwork of several friends, I built my first of many computers.

I remember well an English Teacher at Southern Oregon University (at the time called Southern Oregon State) who refused to give me a passing grade in creative writing class. She insisted that I did not know how to write LIKE HER and therefor gave all my papers a failing grade. When I would ask to see my papers she claimed never to have them in her briefcase or in her office. Finally a week before graduation, I had to legally sue her to see those papers and grades, the court being the dean of the school and the head of the department, who gave me a high grade and reprimanded the teacher. To this day I am not sure why she wanted me to write like all the other robots on this planet, but I have refused for decades to conform to standards arbitrarily set by elite sitting in throned offices over looking grassy campus greens far from the stench of humanity.

Photography has been a love of mine since a young boy when I borrowed the family Kodak Pony to shoot pictures when ever I had some spare money to buy film and prints. Eventually I owned a number of quality Nikon film cameras and then jumped into Digital in 2001. I now shoot exclusively with my Nikon D70 when I can find the time away from my work a day world as a web designer, search engine marketing specialist and technical writer.

I first visited Costa Rica in 1990, taking a two week holiday to visit a high school friend I had not seen in many years who was living in the small sleepy undiscovered ocean front village of Tamarindo. I fell in love with the warm waters and friendly people. Even though the roads were horrible and the government corrupt, I believed these minor issues would be resolved soon because foreigners were moving to costa Rica and bringing modern ways of doing things. Little did I know how wrong this thought would be!

For the past few years the majority of my web clients are selling real estate in California, Mexico, and Costa Rica.. Marketing real estate web sites and search engine optimization SEO has become my specialty due to successfully producing a wide variety of real estate web sites.

I have been working on a series of web sites to promote travel to various countries in central america. The first site to be published is my Vacation Guide to Costa Rica. and now i have added a second Travel Guide Nicaragua.

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