WEBSITES & WEBMASTER

How these websites work

My websites are text-based. I am, after all, a writer! Anyhow, I started putting these pages online in 1992, before there was any software to prettify the internet. After all these years, I still don't see the point of the jumpy graphics and clashing colors I see in so much of my browsing.

A "vertical" navigation bar at the top of most pages tells you how you drilled down to the present page and how to climb back up. A "horizontal" one at the bottom of the page lets you move sideways through the site, or move to a related site. Click here for a site map.

Everything on these websites is copyright, by me or by folks who allow me to use their stuff. If I've used your material in a way you think inappropriate, please send email.

I compose these pages on WordStar, a DOS program designed for ten-finger typists (yes, we use our thumbs) and faster than any modern word processor or web-authoring software. The downside is that I don't have software validating the code as I go along. This has caused problems with some web browsers.

Thanks for visiting. I hope you found it useful or entertaining or better yet both -- Dan Ford. (Oh, and the photo is by Alyssa Duncan.)

Privacy?

My websites set no cookies and I collect no information about my visitors. However, I often link to Amazon or other websites, and I can't control what those people do.

The same is true of my occasional newsletter (see below). I collect no data from my readers and wouldn't know what to do with it if I did. The email addresses reside only on the servers at Simply Hosting, my web host, and at MailChimp, which enables people to sign up for it. I don't add people to the list who don't ask to be added, and I send an email confirming every addition, to be sure it's wanted.

The basic biography:

Adapted from Who's Who in America:

FORD, DANIEL. Writer. Son of Patrick and Anne Ford. Widowed; two granddaughters. Education: B.A. (political science) University of New Hampshire 1954; graduate study, University of Manchester, 1954-55; M.A. (War Studies) King's College, London, 2010. Military: enlisted service, U.S. Army at Fort Dix, Fort Bragg, and Orleans, France, 1956-58. Career: reporter, Overseas Weekly, Frankfurt, Germany, 1958; free-lance writer based in Durham, N.H., 1959 to present; correspondent, The Nation, South Vietnam, 1964; publisher of The Warbird's Forum and other websites, 1992 to present; contributor to Air & Space / Smithsonian, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Michigan War Studies Review, Weekly Standard, Nation, New Republic, Der Spiegel. Honors: Phi Beta Kappa 1954; Fulbright Fellow 1954-55; Stern Foundation Magazine Writers Award 1964; Verville Fellow, National Air & Space Museum 1989-90; Book of the Year, Aviation-Space Writers Association 1992.

How these websites work

Privacy?

The basic biography:

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