The series on Web Designing was written at a time (2001) when Microsoft had not only presented Internet Explorer to the World Wide Web, but maneuvered it into a position where it thoroughly destroyed the Internet's first modern browser: Netscape Navigator.

Netscape, by this time was a financial disaster; been purchased by AOL and the main crew from Netscape had been down-sized. Some of the cast-offs formed into various software and systems ventures... others gathered into an open-source collective that became known as Mozilla.

From the year 2001 to the present, Microsoft had become the number one target for world wide hackers; the deeds of the miscreants primarily targeted the browser Internet Explorer, its e-mail client, Outlook Express, and the key office application from Redmond: Microsoft Office and that application's e-mail client, Outlook.

As astute Internet users are aware today... Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and Outlook, have been riddled with worms, susceptible to virus attacks and, as a result of all the emergency patches offered by Redmond, have become seriously bloated, malfunctioning programs.

Enter Mozilla.

Mozilla - the Open Source Experiment - finally began producing fruit with the 2003 issuance of its Mozilla browser. From 2003 through 2004, the Mozilla Browser became better and better in its capability. But, Mozilla.org was not resting on gloating and laurels. It has gone on to produce a true, next-generation browser that's fast-becoming world famous: FireFox. Progressing hand-in-hand with FireFox is a separate, nearly bulletproof e-mail client, Thunderbird. Both of these applications SEEM to be at this time (2004), resistant to the problems that have vexed Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and Outlook.

Many of us are hopeful that Mozilla will continue to re-shape Internet browsing for the better, and perhaps become the driving force for a universally accepted alternative user-friendly desk-top operating system.