It’s been a while in coming – for me at least – but essentially months of planning, research, study, design and coding have resulted in this framework from which you are reading these words. This is probably the longest time I’ve spent getting my homepage revised from scratch, but I’ve also tried a lot of new things this time around.
So the biggest motivation this time actually stemmed from some of the issues I had moving from my old host 8-95.com to my new host Site5. If you’ve even glanced at the v3 stub that I had running on the new host, chances were that it crumbled into virtual HTML dust whenever you tried something like submitting a comment or, god forbid, look for the missing Pictures pages. I also figured I’d take a stab at all this fancy AJAX and spend a bit of time learning more advanced Javascript techniques, as oxymoronic as that might sound. A fair amount of time was spent appeasing the perfectionist in me, who demanded exotic experiments such as checking whether 5 pixel margins or 8 pixel margins would look better.
Take a look around; there isn’t much in terms of major content, but I tried to add small things here and there to make the site more navigational, user-friendly, and look less plain (at least, compared to my previous offerings). I’m going to deprecate and stop updating v3, although I’ll keep the site around (1) and I’ll integrate searching into those entries.
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