This Web Presence,
The purpose behind this web presence is to give myself a place to tool around on the Internet, post my stuff, do these kinds of things.
I took a college class (city college, not pro university) a while back while trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life (well, duh). It was a Dreamweaver (MX) class (that’s a little more specific). I had to create a website for the final. I actually destroyed that website just before the final. In any case, I was using ASP and MSSQL servers or Access databases. Since then I’ve moved to PHP, primarily, though I can use Java / JSP, Java scripting, Ruby, Python and a number of other languages with XML and CSS to create websites.
Mentioned on another part of this intro to this web presence, is that I don’t like graphic design. Well … I don’t really like doing massive or major raw-coding projects either, so I primarily use WordPress, or another base project to base all of my efforts off of. Before the discovery of word-press, I’d program and design my website, and write the back-end for the website. Now, primarily, aside from small technical projects where I do my own coding, I use WordPress to manage my back-end efforts, like formatting and writing-up and spell-checking this text.
So … I like to plug who I use. I’ve plugged WordPress. This is my first endeavor with iPowerWeb. It is a deviation from my usual CyrstalTech development. In this, my personal tooling-around website, I decided that I wanted a Linux back-end, instead of a Windows back-end. I originally went with CrystalTech for the Windows back-end with ASP server-side scripting and MSSQL databases. Since then, I’ve switched to PHP / MySQL and WordPress, so it only follows suit that I should have migrated to iPowerWeb a long time ago (since I’ve known about them half the time I’ve been on the WRONG web host). Don’t get me wrong … CrystalTech has been excellent, and I still host sites there, but I think with this basic experience of being able to use WordPress to its fullest, I’m set on using *nix back-end hosts from now on. (Plus I’m more familiar with managing a *nix host on an administrative end.)
This web presence is just one of my little spaces on the web. I have a resume website, and I had a business website (I only work off of referrals now). This will be a place to post my project and thoughts and files and whatnot … whatever comes to mind.
Welcome to my new & improved web presence … self serving in all ways. Enjoy the experience and don’t hesitate to contact me … I probably won’t be monitoring this e-mail much.