How did it start?

I don't have a clue. [grin] It really started as my personal bookmark hotlist of the few resources (four, I believe) on the Internet for Anglicans. Eventually, it started to grow and I thought I'd put it up in the web directory of where I work so that a couple of my friends can pick it up. Even then, it was only about a half dozen or so sites, mostly in England. Then one night, apparently overdosed on coffee, I posted a message about the site on a Christian newsgroup. That week, Anglicans Online! recorded about more than a thousand hits from all over the world. It just kind of evolved from there.

How do I get my parish's web page listed?

Read this.

How many visits do you get?

A lot. Often more than 30,000 visits each week. In the first two weeks of April 1995 alone, people from Australia, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Japan, Singapore, and about 22 other countries visited the site. I'm told by my Internet provider that Anglicans Online! is the single most popular site on their entire system. It's certainly the busiest Anglican/Episcopal site in the world. (Yikes.)

How often do you update it?

Every weekend, usually on Friday or Saturday night. I collect new sites from people who e-mail me and save them to my hard disk until the next time I update the pages. All together, it's about a 12-hour process for myself and a friend each time we sit down to update it.

How much e-mail do you get from it?

It varies, but on average it's about 40 messages per day. Although I read all my e-mail daily, I usually save mail generated from Anglicans Online! and reply on the weekend when I update the pages. (So please don't be offended if you don't hear from me for a few days; I did get your message and will reply.)

What do you do in "real life"?

In real life, I am senior consultant for a new media consulting firm in Vancouver, B.C.

No really. You must be a priest or something.

Nope, really I promise. I'm just your average 26-year-old Schmo.

Where did you learn to design web pages?

Mostly self-taught. Most World Wide Web browsers have a "view source" menu option where you can peek in on the source code of cool pages, so I tend to leech some ideas that way, but most of it is trial and error. (P.S. Feel free to leech any code you find on Anglicans Online!)

What kind of computer and software do you use?

[Geek mode on] I use a Pentium 75mhz tower, 2 gigabyte hard drive (2,048 megs), a NEC MultiSync XV14 monitor, 3D Stereo surround sound, quad-speed CD-ROM, 24 megs of RAM, a 14.4k faxmodem, a 28.8k faxmodem (yes, two modems), built-in voicemail. It all runs on Windows 95. My Internet connection is through a dial-up 28.8k link and my browser of choice is Netscape Gold 3.0 beta 5. [Geek mode off]

I'd like to send you a postcard. How can I?

Great! I love to receive real mail to. My mailing address is:
Tod K. Maffin
Box 407, 550 West 12th Avenue
Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 1M3
CANADA

What do you want to do when you grow up?

Grow up?...

You must drink a lot of coffee.

Now you're getting the picture. %-]