Posts for December 9, 2007

  • A New Look

    Being a programmer, and one who mainly developers for the web at that, I have been embarrassed by my previous web presence. You see, I bought an off-the-shelf content management system with very nicely designed, but rigid templates, and used it to build my previous website. The software I used, Rapidweaver, is a great product. It is just not for a web programmer like myself for which the underlying HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and server-side scripting used to build a personal website are as much expressions of personal creativity as the words that you are reading now. My greatest fear was that a professional colleague would view source and see less-than-ideal markup! Or worse, a potential client would look at the site and judge my programming merit on the fact I didn’t even put together my own personal website using my own code.

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