About this site design.

Up to now all of my personal sites have been very conservative and fairly plain, with a tecchie bent. The artiest one I've had was a green-on-black theme which was very reminiscient of old 1970s/early 1980s business computers with green monochrome monitors, and I used the stereotypical "computer style" typeface that was so common in advertising at the time (and is still in use today as account numbers on bank checks).  I got a lot of great feedback at the time and am sometimes still asked to bring it back.

Now, I'm a professional and always thought it important to keep a conservative look when I bother to do a web site for myself. However, this time around I wanted something more artsy, so cute and girly that it makes you a little nauseated while saying "Oh, that's kinda cute." In fact, I named the design "nauseatingcuteness" on the back end.  I hope to have it done soon but I'm touching PHP for the first time in a couple of years (I haven't coded in 2-3 years aside from bash, powershell, and vbscript scripts) so let's hope it goes well! :) 

Tools I used for the design:

• My sense of humor
• Inkscape
• Gimp (for slicing the image)
• Quanta+ (to make editing the php and stylesheets easier - sorry, I didn't use vi; I'm not a purist)
• Drupal