My name is Keith Hill, d.b.a. Webin Works. I am 53 years old and was born and reared in Tulsa. I moved to beautiful Tenkiller Lake in 1982, where I opened my own machine shop. (Hill's Machine & Mfg. Co.) I have worked as a machinist all my working life. Then about two years ago, I made a huge career move.

I acquired my first computer on January 1, 1995. Little did I know, at the time, what a life altering move that would be. After a few upgrades and with the arrival of the internet service to my rural area, I was "on-line". That was it! Done deal! What a wonderful thing, this Internet. You can go anywhere you want, find anything there is to find, and all from the comfort of your own home.

It didn't take long to figure out that I might like to try my hand at making a web page. I came across a free service which allowed me to use a template, then save the page to my drive. And so it began. I searched the web for information on how to make a real web site, did a lot of studying, and I was off on the adventure of my life.

I put together my very own website in July of 1997. The links have been disabled now, but you can see the home page here. Laugh, if you can keep from crying. I was really quite proud of this page. This is not "the" very first page, but close.

After many updates to my own site, a friend, in the boat building business, asked me to build a web site for him and I agreed. Not long after that, another business owner in the area, wanted a site, too, and on this went, until I reached a point where I didn't have the time to run my machine shop and work on the computer, both. I decided to close the machine shop to public business about two years ago. From machinist, to webmaster, I consider that a huge career move.

To date, I have developed approximately thirty-five web sites and currently retain and maintain twenty-nine of them. I now build sites that are much lighter in graphics than before (all my own work now), with shorter pages, and hopefully, better layouts. I try to keep my sites cross browser compatible and display properly across multiple resolutions, to satisfy as many as possible. Above all, I want them to be easy on the eyes, load in reasonable time, and navigate well.

This site, Tenkiller Lake Central, is one that I started about three years ago and only recently revived in order to provide a much needed resource for the lake area. I totally enjoy working on it and hope it's of benefit to the community.

Lastly, seeking awards (for the first time) for this site is teaching me much about web standards, that I hadn't given a lot of weight to in the past. It will undoubtedly make me a better webmaster in the future.

Thanks for taking the time to learn a little about me. I hope I didn't bore you.

Keith Hill

My personal site can be viewed here. It needs some lightening up. Since I've been so busy on other works, I've neglected my own. I'll get to it one of these days !