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Q. Doug, why do you have such an elaborate homepage? Are you a narcissist or something?
A. No. I had to learn HTML for work. My past experience was in traditional direct marketing, and I wanted to move into e-commerce. It's hard to learn computer code without some project to practice on. This was my practice project. I hope you find it entertaining, because it was a lot of work!
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