About the Alex Cummings Web-page Designer; 

This page contains some factual and some terminological in-exactitudes about Alex Cummings the author of these web pages.
 

Although proud of his Scottish ancestry Alex has lived more than half his life in South Africa and some more in "Rhodesia" here are some of his details for more about his family life look up 5-1,2,2 and see a little bit more of CSS coding

If anyone from Alex's birth place of Clydebank happens to visit this page please contact him as he likes to hear how it is today. The author has called Uitenhage home since 1979,

Male, born in Scotland sometime in the first half of the 20th Century, name ; "Alex"  pronounced "Ah-lick" or even "Ah=leck" not "Ahl-X's". His formal name is Alexander  but prefers Alex pronounced as above.  On official documents he uses his full name Alexander Kidd Cummings

A qualified Toolmaker he  moved up the ladder of success into various managerial and supervisory positions it was when he a production planner that he had his first encounter with computers.

In the late '1980's he was terrified by a mainframe computer and required intensive therapy, after which he resolved to master the beasts.
While he was still confined to using a terminal linked to a mainframe he learned to program on an IBM  main frame computer using APL. and ADRS. 

Alex graduated onto PC's and was bitten by a well known bug becoming a PC addict. After obtaining one of the first PC's (only two floppy drives no hard or even "stiffy" drive) he spent long hours huddled over it. whilst others were playing games on their machines he was learning how to program firstly in "Basic" later in Delphi and others. Alex is now a competent programmer.

He has written in Delphi, HTML, Java Script, Dynamic HTML, Cascading Style Sheets.

Although he completely supports the concept of open source programming he is not anti Microsoft and uses their products when he sees fit, as also believes in free enterprise and considers that it is mostly jealousy that causes most of the complaints about them.  At least they have created a common platform for the masses to use.  Remember the days when there was about six word processing and spreadsheet suites, none of which was compatible with the other, "nuf said".

Having attended the Glasgow school of Art, he found it easier and quicker to use the medium of photography to express his art.  
Being used to manipulating reality he naturally chose Prints especially Colour prints.  Eventually gaining an APSSA in Colour Prints from the Photographic Society of South Africa.  
In the early '90's he lectured on the future of digital photography and despite the disbelief of his audience has been proven correct. He also breeds Pomeranian Dogs

Alex has been designing and hosting web pages for many years. Having gone through various design phases using pure HTM then integrating some Java Script. Now most of the pages which he designs rely mainly on CSS to operate.  Alex also finds the occasional use for Flash and Php in his designs.