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.