The New and Improved Website of Jim Farris, Published Professional Author and Composer

Ornate 'G' reetings, Webhopper, and welcome to my new website!

You have several choices available to you:

If you are interested in seeing a list of my books currently available from my publisher, click here.
If you are interested in seeing what books I have available in print, click here.
If you would like to visit a webpage of my music and listen to some of my musical compositions for free, click here.
If you would like to see the various game modifications I have made in my hobby time, click here.
If you would like to visit my forums, click here.
If you are interested in the various freebies I have made for Poser™, click here.
If you are looking for the genaeological research pages of my father-in-law, Chester Rankin Johnson, click here.
If you would like to send me e-mail, click here.
If you are a commercial game designer and are interested in having me write the story for your game, click here.
If you are interested in exploring my new site, click... Well, wait a moment.

Before you pop in and explore my new site, you should know a few things about it.

First, there's quite a bit of graphics and the like. My main site gives detailed and illustrated insights into my books. There's pictures, music, and even frames. You'll need to have inline graphics and music enabled in your browser, and you should enable frames.

Mozilla Firefox is my best reccomendation - the download is free and rather small, installation is a breeze, and it has much better security than IE. If you would like to download either of the above two browsers, click the appropriate image, below. If you're a long-time, die-hard IE user (like me) and want to know why I am reccommending Firefox, click here.

Second, you should at least have Internet Explorer or Firefox. For IE, you should have the 3.0 or higher version. For Firefox, you should have the 1.0 version or higher (and the Quicktime plugin to play music). I used to reccommend Netscape, but since AOL has fiddled with it extensively I just can't guarantee compatibility with Netscape anymore (sad, but true). The website works in the version of Netscape I have on my machine (4.03), but that's all I can tell you. If you have Mosaic, AMosaic (hello, Amiga users!), Opera or Safari, yes, the website SHOULD work for your browser, but you may need plugins to play music or show images on some pages. If it doesn't work for you or you have any problems, please e-mail me and tell me what happened and I'll try to fiddle with it to get it to work for you. Lynx users, well, there's lots of pictures inside, I'm afraid things won't work for you - you'll need another browser. Mozilla Firefox is my best reccomendation - the download is free and rather small, installation is a breeze, and it has much better security than IE. If you would like to download either of the above two browsers, click the appropriate image, below. If you're a long-time, die-hard IE user (like me) and want to know why I am reccommending Firefox, click here .

Third, you should also have Javascript enabled in your browser - which you do!

Third, you should also have Javascript enabled in your browser. Now, don't be frightened! There are no applets on the new site you will be downloading (unlike the old site, which had several). However, there are commands that use Javascript, and tie the whole site together. For example, there's the "back" commands, that let you simply click a link, and back up one page. They're ever so much more convenient than clicking the "back" button in your browser, and they look like this:BackThere - that doesn't look terribly frightening, now does it?However, the other thing I use Javascript for is on this page I use it to tell what browser you have. If you're reading this, that means Javascript is turned off, so I can't tell. And if you're reading this and you have Netscape, I don't recommend you turn Javascript on. Instead, I recommend you either give Firefox a whirl, or just forge on ahead with what you've got.

Lastly, all the images, text and music on this website are copyrighted. That means you may not use anything on this website for your own webpages without express written permission. For the most part, all the music is mine, and most (but not all) of the images are mine. Those that aren't mine I have recieved permission from the copyright holder to use, and in some cases I am paying a royalty fee. Please don't steal from me, I won't like it. Also, please do not link to any image or MIDI file on these pages. It's called 'crossloading', and it's a very bad thing. Link to my pages, not my graphics or my music. If you can't agree to that, if you're the kind of person who thinks that copyright is morally wrong and you should be allowed to do anything you wish, click here.

Alright - now that you've read all the above, if you're still interested in exploring, click

here.

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