A Brand Spankin New Site

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I can’t explain how long designing this site has taken me. There have been 3 total iterations each one resulting in a complete make-over and a lot of yelling. I don’t know what it is about making a site for yourself but there were a few weeks where I almost lost it. Anyway, I’ve taken a few screen shots of the design for this site as it’s progressed over the past couple months.

Layout 1: An Old Book

Layout 2: 3D Boxes

Layout 3: Snowscape

There you have it. I remember tossing and turning around in bed towards the end of the first layout. I was trying to write both a site and a blog engine at the same time and it wasn’t working out. It was prior to the third layout when I discovered the amazing CodeIgniter PHP Framework. It’s the probably the most straightforward, easy-to-use framework I’ve ever come across. I looked into Cake and one other but CI is perfect. I’ll write up a review later about it.

Anyway, stay tuned as I put up the rest of the pages of the site.

A Brand Spankin New Site was posted on Tue, 25 March 2008 at 17:02:24

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Ahh, my 9th symphony. I've arranged this piece for xHTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL. It should sound beautifully across all instruments, and was meticulously prepared with standards and accessibility in mind. View the Colophon, or contact me. All material © 2008 Mike Gioia, et al.