New Site (kinda)
Yeah, I’m not really into the whole website thing. Not anymore, I guess. But I had to renew my domain today, and I did. So I guess that calls for something.
I decided that that something will be a new site design.
This design was made for me freshman year, it’s a great design. But it’s old. Half of the links probably don’t work. Lumpy promptly lost the images used to make the menus, so I can’t change them. So I’m going for something lower bandwidth, easier to maintain, simpler, standards-compliant, and, unfortunately, boring.
Since I can’t design websites, I started at Open Source Web Design, a resource I discovered while checking out Ogg Theora. So I took a design, made it XHTML1-transitional, separated colors and styles into CSS, did some tweaking, and ended up with a base design for the site. You can look at it here. Next on my list is to write code to support it through Perl, PHP, or maybe even Python, probably with some SSI, so I can make an easy-to-maintain-and-update site.
And here’s a picture of my newly cleaned and layed-out desk, with me making this entry and working on the new site…
