I have way too much fun setting up a blog.
Two years ago, in 2004, I overhauled my website, making the transition from a sophomoric how-many-animated gifs-can-I-stuff-here HTML exercise to a cleaner, classier look using Cascading Style Sheet (CSS). My CSS layout functioned well enough in Internet Explorer (IE 5.0+), but it was never designed to be viewed with other web browsers. If someone tried to view my website using an alternative web browser, such as Mozilla Firefox, it would be a jumbled mess. This was something I wanted/needed to remedy, since I understood that more and more Internet users are relying on alternatives as their default web browser. However, I just never found the time or patience to sit down and slog through more CSS and HTML code.
Until now. Except I decided to turn to PHP. I find PHP quite useful. This new thing is much more powerful than what I could code with mere HTML and CSS. And it looks more professional too. The admin panel is amazing as well. Although I don’t code from scratch anymore, I still have a sense of ownership b/c there are still some nitty gritty things in terms of management. Technology has freed up coding time so I can do more interesting things on the blog. So it’s a shift from back-office coding work to more value-added front-end management. Hahahaha. Can you tell I’m a business/economics major?
And I find the timing to be quite fitting, as this renovation will also mark the beginning of life after graduation. So with that long, vociferous, jargon-filled prelude, welcome to version 2.0 of the Pig Pen – where the pieces of my life are scattered here and there for your viewing pleasure.