About Mark Laymon, Jerri Laymon, MrWebauthor, MrsWebAuthor, MrMrsWebAuthor, Styles For All Sizes, LongLiveTechTV

In the year of 2000, Mark Laymon got a WebTV. It was his very first time even touching any type of electronics. Before that he didn't even know how to program a VCR. Immediately he was so intrigued with how a website operated on his TV screen that he went out and bought himself a HTML book.

He began writing code (at age 40, no less) and created his first website called 'WebAuthor's Tribute To Local-Oklahoma'. Local-Oklahoma was a chat room he frequented at TalkCity.com via his WebTV. The story of that chat room is a whole book of its own. Maybe Mark will write about it in the future.

Members of that chat room sent links to him pointing to their 'home pages' and he listed them on the newly created website. Soon he added a forum, then a calendar, then a photo gallery, and much more. Before you knew it, an active community was created. Members of this chat room gathered in person and got to know each other on a one-on-one basis. They called these gatherings 'Chat Parties', and these chat parties became a regular occurrence.

At one of the chat parties is where Mark met Jerri. She was a sweet little country gal who also hung out in Local Oklahoma. Little did either one of them know that they would eventually wed and create an online empire that would span the globe and sell thousands of items through a virtual marketplace called eBay.

The two of them emailed back and forth. It wasn't long before they decided to get married, and that's when WebAuthor became 'MrWebAuthor'. Well, with every marriage, where there's the mister, there has to be the Mrs., and that's how Jerri became MrsWebAuthor.

With a pocket full of dreams and no compass, the two of them set off on a journey that'd last for years, and they're still trucking to this very day!

Mark was using Yahoo Geocities to write his very first HTML code, and it was there that he found out about Yahoo Web Hosting services. He created MrWebAuthor.com and was finally on his way to becoming a semi-pro in the world of web design.

In the meantime, Jerri (his new wife) was experimenting with a few web practices of her own. She decided to dabble at eBay and try selling some blanket sleepers that her sons had outgrown. No sooner had she listed them and they sold. That's all it took and Jerri was addicted to a new hobby. She began going everywhere she could to find bargains. She just wanted to buy something so she could list and sell it on eBay. It didn't take long before it became an obsession. Little did she know that this obsession would become a major profit-making business.

Both Mark and Jerri were studying (in depth) this new and exciting platform called the World Wide Web. It wasn't long before they needed a name for their newly created business and web presence, and that's when MrMrsWebAuthor.com was born. The only thing is...Mark had his own domain but Jerri did not, so another domain was on the wings of the future. But before that happened, a lot of learning had to be done.

Now, take into consideration that neither of these two people knew anything about what they were doing, and there was hardly anywhere to learn it because not much had been published about the Internet at that time. Mark knew absolutely nothing about computers and was still using his WebTV. However, one day in 2002 he happened across a cable channel called "TechTV", and his college education began. He learned more in two years of watching that channel than most people learn in a 4-year stretch at a university. He didn't know, however, that TechTV would soon see its final days only two years later in 2004. That's when something else happened that would catapult these two people into online social networks that never existed before that time.

TechTV shut its doors in 2004, and this put Mark into a depression, a bad one. He couldn't hardly stand the fact that his television school would no longer provide him the education he so desperately needed. In a state of panic - feeling that he had to do something - he created a tribute page thanking all the people at TechTV for what they had done for him over the course of the two years he'd been watching the channel. After that, he created a Yahoo Group called Long Live TechTV. With no actual expectation that anyone would really join, he told himself that he was going to build it 'just in case'. Immediately after TechTV closed down its online community and G4 assumed ownership of the website, hundreds, and soon thousands, came flocking into Mark's new Yahoo Group. In 2004 the original TechTV.com died, but right after that, LongLiveTechTV.com was born. Still today it's an active community with over 2,000 members.

MrsWebAuthor.com Becomes A Reality In 2005

While Mark had all his little adventures going, Jerri was busy building an empire of her own. Her eBay hobby was getting bigger and bigger by the day. Mark noticed she was taking stuff to the Post Office on a daily basis, so he volunteered to start taking it for her. Before they knew it, they were turning their garage into an office and mini warehouse; then building another storage building in their yard; then leasing an environmentally controlled storage area. Mark was hauling two huge duffle bags of merchandise per day, six days a week, to the Post Office.

They soon outgrew their home and decided to sell it, and they had a new custom home built by the lake that's nearly 3 times the size of their orignal. They finally had room for Styles For All Sizes clothing store.

Now, you've got to realize these two people are doing this all by themselves, raising two kids, and STILL keeping their day jobs. How they do it still baffles many, and oftentimes they sit back asking each other, "Where did we ever have the time, and how did we actually accomplish all of this in only a few short years?"

Will any of us ever know the answer to that question?

The answer is, we don't! Sure, here it is 2009 and they aren't selling the amount of merchandise they used to in the past, but it's not because they can't, they just don't want to sell on the scale they did years ago. Sure, Long Live TechTV isn't pulsating the way it did back in 2004-06, but it's still alive and kicking.

Jerri is still on the Internet, but instead of working all the time, she is spending more time visiting with the friends she's made over the years. Mark, on the other hand, is in the process of updating their sites, upgrading their equipment, and still learning everything he can about technology.

Keep coming back here and keep buying from MrsWebauthor at her eBay "Styles For All Sizes Store". Just because these two dynamic people are finally slowing down and beginning to smell the coffee doesn't mean they're going anywhere. They're staying right here online, and they will continue to be your helping hand to the World Wide Web. Thank you for visiting the MrWebAuthor.com Network, and a very special thanks to you for taking the time to read the 'About Us' page of Mark and Jerri Laymon.