About This Site
This website is my personal home on the internet. I originally opened the site in early 2001 as a website that some friends and I were going to run. Interest in keeping up with that soon died off as people started going off to college and.. well.. not caring.
So in late 2002, I trashed what remained of the site and opened my own personal page for whatever reason I wanted to use it for. I kept the forums intact until July of 2007 so that all of the people who used to visit can still post messages to each other, though. However, at the beginning of August some random ass wipe took it upon themselves to hack the site and delete my entire database. Starting it all over just didn’t seem worth the effort, so I just deleted them in their entirety and decided to go on with life.
Since 1998 or so, I had a website of my own, first hosted on a free server, then a subdomain when I opened up the original website, and now this. The site has gone through many looks and changes and none of them, in my opinion, have ever been a step back in terms of design.
All in all, I really do whatever I feel like doing on my site. There are some people in my field who think you should have 2 or 3 different sites for all your different sides (personal/professional/whatever) but I think that’s dumb. Nobody in their right mind should think that you aren’t allowed to have a life outside of work, and I’m not afraid to show what mine is like.
As far as this revision of the site, I got the idea when I first made the star logo in the upper-left. It was actually designed for a client at an internship, but he chose another logo over this one. I fell in love with it the second I made it, so I decided a month or so later that I was going to use it. The second I started thinking about how to implement it in a site, I thought of using clouds. The actual layout of the site took longer, but in the end my brain and the HTML met up. It’s gone through some revisions in the exact look, but it’s been this general idea for a while. This is probably the longest I’ve kept one site design.
This page has been coded to comply with the most recent XHTML 1.0 Transitional standards and CSS standards, according to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
