About This Site
I started my personal web site around 2004 as a venue to promote my own work as a performer, programmer, and designer. The design has gone through several substantial changes. In early 2006, I decided to start a blog as an outlet for my ideas about computers and programming. At that time, I also created the design the site currently uses.
The background photograph is one I took in the Fall of 2003. It was taken at dawn, looking up the East River from the South Street Seaport in downtown Manhattan. The Brooklyn Bridge is in the foreground, with the Manhattan Bridge and the Brooklyn shoreline in the distance.
Both the blog and the static pages are powered by WordPress. The PHP and CSS code for the layout and design is my own. The “breadcrumb” navigation links at the top of each page are generated by the Breadcrumb Navigation XT plugin by Michael Woehrer.
Before coming up with this photo-background design, I experimented with the limits of flexible HTML/CSS layouts using a slate-background design that looked like this (click to enlarge):
