You can see that the site’s layout is somewhat broken at this point. Usually this is something that gets caught prior to a site going live, but I’m also using this site as an experiment in exposing the process of design. Underestimating the necessary heights of backgrounds is something that comes up often enough. In my case, I’d like to …

Well, as you can see I’m still moving forward. With the use of jQuery I’ve now got a fancy slider that will remember it’s state! The coverflow style scroller was part of my original comp, but I’m not sure if I like it in practice. Now that I’m playing with it, it feels a bit overdone. Next I plan on …

Well here we go. The template is completed, so I’d call this an Alpha release. No content, pretty minimal functionality, but the template is built, and that’s been the hard part up to this point.

Just uploaded the new favicon! In actuality a lot of work has been going on behind the scenes. The new layout is complete, and we’re moving onto markup.

Wow, the default template for Joomla. Not ugly, but not what I’m looking for. Over the next undetermined amount of time, this will become my portfolio. Thanks to an offer of free hosting things have gotten a bit of a kick start. The next step is to delete all the sample content and menus that are installed by default. My …