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August 11, 2006
What's This?
It's a Redesign!
For some inexplicable reason, I've been devoting what little downtime I've for the past week to redesigning my personal web site. For about four years, it has been the 100% Flash version I developed a while back ago in college. Perhaps it was this very long period of time that compelled me to fire up the good old Dreamweaver MX and kick some XHTML/CSS knowledge.
I've had the general look and feel that you see now sitting in a Photoshop file for about two years. Every now and then I'd take a peek, squint, ponder, then tweak a font here, move a few pixels there before closing out. Last Saturday, I reached closure on the design to keep from playing with it. I just dove into the markup and stylesheets and got completely engrossed.
It was just like the good old days when I got my first gig straight out of college as a Web Producer jockey. Man, the XHTML and CSS were just flying out of my fingers. It was a welcome break from the C# and WebObjects code I've been going blind on at work. Some CSS, refresh, squint, gaze, some HTML, refresh, squint gaze, smile. This was instant gratification. The whole process was analagous to my code, compile, execute cycle at my workstation but still felt different. Oh, it's that right side of my brain that had been left on the sidelines for a while. He was just happy as hell to be called back into the game. Hopefully he scored a winning goal for you guys. Enjoy!
Oh, by the way, there are still some visual bugs with the site as I track down all the necessary Movable Type templates. Please bear with me.
Posted by Edward at August 11, 2006 09:08 PM
Comments
Ed, your site's devoid of style!!! Hehe ;) Makes my MySpace look like a cheap toy...
Posted by: J at August 12, 2006 10:03 PM
