About CooksRecipes.com
and Its founder, Hope Pryor:
Since its debut in the later half of 1998
(titled as "Hope & Friends Recipe Exchange" for
a short time), CooksRecipes.com has evolved into one of the most
popular and largest cooking and recipe sites on the Internet.
Hope Pryor, CooksRecipes.com's sole proprietor,
webmaster and site manager, became fascinated in cookery as a
young child and was preparing entire meals by the age of twelve
years. Although she attended six semesters of cooking classes
during her school years, she credits most of her culinary skills
and knowledge from hands-on experience in her own kitchen and
an insatiable desire to ever learn and improve on them.
As for creating the website, CooksRecipes.com,
it all started when Mrs. Pryor purchased her first computer in
early 1998 having absolutely no experience with the Internet
or building a web site. Without the benefit of attending a school
for web design and construction, Mrs. Pryor taught herself to
build a web page by reading every "how-to" article
she could find on the subject of HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language),
the basic building blocks of web page construction.
With a desire to apply her new computer
skills in a way that others would find interesting, Mrs. Pryor
decided to combine her life-long love and practice in the art
of cooking with her new-found ability by constructing a quality
cooking and recipe site that visitors would find comfortable
to visit and easy to use.
Today, CooksRecipes.com is one of the most
popular sites of its kind. Promotion of the site has been done
exclusively by Mrs. Pryor herself through free submission of
the site to the major search engines, indexes, link exchanges,
and word-of-mouth. Not one cent has been paid to advertise the
site. Quite an achievement for one woman who's life's work had
once been centered around her family and kitchen and today manages
one of the Internet's largest cooking and recipe resources by
herself. Mrs. Pryor likes to think of CooksRecipes.com as the
"Little Cookery Site That Could" on the Web, with the
eagerness and stamina to persevere and continue growing as an
Internet success story.
