The site is running on Wordpress with a custom theme that I built. For the most part, it’s been a fun experience so far. I basically took a clean copy of the default theme, the CSS from the Copyblogger theme, stripped them way down and rebuilt. Suffice to say, I like building from scratch and using my own processes much better. As clean as the Copyblogger CSS was, I wound up rewriting the thing top to bottom, using the original selectors as a reference. I like the indenting style Copyblogger used, so I kept that as well. I installed my fixed-fluid-fixed three-column layout, and adapted version of the ALA Holy Grail technique, and voila… new theme.

As is usually the case with these efforts, the most fun is had throwing pixels around in Photoshop or, in this case, Fireworks. The design just sort of evolved as I experimented, then solidified… or is still solidifying. I threw in some of that reflection business that everyone seems to be using, along with buzzwords like Web 2.0… but I tried to keep it a bit more subtle.

So, here we go… I’ve started posting some recent work in the portfolio section, with much more to come. I’ve a few other sites and designs coming there, and some traditional media work I’ve done, such as pencils, charcoals, etc. I do those primarily as a hobby, but I find they help me flex creatively when I’m designing for the web and print as well. I may even throw in some of the writing I’ve been toying with. And, I’ve definitely got a few tutorial articles I can post right here on the front page. More to come…