Why did I make this site?

Because it’s fun, challenging, and interesting. My old site, hosted on umich servers, needed some serious updating, too.

http://www.umich.edu/~dcflood

What’s different about this one?

A lot, actually. The biggest difference is that I actually learned CSS and HTML, the building blocks of web pages. Previously, I used DreamWeaver, which is, if you don’t know, a software program that does a lot of the coding for you.

The code’s a lot prettier now — that’s for sure. I hope you like the site.

How long did it take?

An embarrassingly long amount of time.

What about technical stuff?

Like I mentioned above, I got down-and-dirty with the code thanks to Liz Castro’s book, HTML, XHTML, & CSS — 6th edition . I highly recommend it.

In terms of software and other primary tools, I used basic Windows Notepad, Adobe ImageReady, a little bit of Photoshop, Acrobat, some testing in NVu, GIMP, Flickr, FileZilla, Google Analytics, Fetch, Yahoo Hosting, Firefox, WordPress, and Picasa.

I also need to give credit to the following people:

• Stu Nicholls at CSSPlay for my CSS drop-down menu, the opacity-driven portfolio, and these sweet pop up thingies.
• RANDOMBYTE’s FAlbum, which powers my photobook.
• Lokesh Dhakar’s Lightbox JS. This is the overlay you see when you click on any image.
• FAlbum with Lightbox2 at GrinGod.
• Dustin Diaz for the toggle javascript on background images.
• Matthew Mullenweg’s rotate.php, which makes it possible to randomly generate the background images.
• Semiologic’s Dofollow plugin for Wordpress.
• Nik Iliadis’s Vistered Little 1.6, my Wordpress theme (though it's been modified a lot).
• Paul Pulice and Kyle Rademacher for providing me with many of the images.
• The Duke Admissions web page. It’s one of my favorite sites on the inter-webs.

Is there anything else?

Negative. Thanks for visiting. Go Blue.