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a little bit about me and this site
Welcome visitors, today is the launch of my new personal blog! I have been meaning for quite some time to update my wordpress blog to reflect my experience and to work with the latest wordpress 3.0. The timing of wordpress 3.0 couldn’t have been better as I finished this site design right when wordpress 3 was launched.
Primary Focus
While I will be blogging about personal experiences, a big focus or theme for this site will be on web technologies and the impacts for small to medium businesses (SMBs). I enjoy analyzing/explaining how the latest web technology can affect businesses and what the smaller and independent businesses can do to leverage them. Wordpress is a great example of this type of technology. Aside from being easy to use, wordpress can be customized in many ways to fit the specific needs of various businesses. Part of this is wordpress’ flexibility, simplicity, and large community. A web site that would have cost around 20-40K a few years ago can cost much less, as low as a few hundred or thousand dollars. I’m also not referring to purchasing a low cost template and creating a boiler plate site. There is a new line of websites that can address the specific needs of SMB’s at a professional level.
Secondary Features
The second reason I setup this website was to show case some of the projects I’ve been involved with. By customizing WordPress, I created a portfolio page that serves as a quick visual overview of selected projects. Each thumbnail loads up a lightbox overlay to view specific screen shots and details. These projects range from small websites to large flaghship products developed for companies. Please bear with me as I add in content for each project as this page currently only consists of images.
Other stuff
Down the road I hope to add more customized features into this theme. I have not decided on what yet but this site will also act as a test bed for new features I’m working on. If you have any questions or comments, please comment or contact me directly as I’m always looking to make new connections with people in the industry.