Web Page Redesign

If anything isn’t working or you can’t find something, please let me know: Contact Me. I’d also love to hear your thoughts—good or bad—about the new design.

Why the redesign? Nearly 30 years ago, I started with a hand-edited, homebrew website. Back then, HTML was all there was, and the only tool was a simple text editor. Every artwork I posted was a separate .html file I had to create and upload manually.

Over time, maintaining the site felt like more work than creating art. Web technology kept evolving, but I wasn’t in the mood to keep up. So, my posts slowed, and the site grew stale.

About 15 years ago, I decided to restart with WordPress. It offered a blogging format and handled browser quirks, HTML, and CSS details. It had a clean layout and made posting easier—I just filled out a form and uploaded the next JPG.

But WordPress eventually felt limiting. It’s a blogging platform with features like featured images and gallery add-ons, but these never looked quite right. Behind the scenes, it became a Frankenstein’s monster of inconsistent and barely compatible add-ons. Although open source, customizing it was painful—fixing one thing often broke two others. It felt like starting over might be easier.

So here we are today: a brand-new, entirely homebrew website. My goal is to keep it clean and simple. It uses PHP and MySQL alongside HTML and CSS. I had a lot of help from GitHub Copilot AI putting it together—I doubt I would have attempted this redesign without it.

This website is optimized for one thing: for you to view and, if you want, download my art. The showcase and gallery pages were designed first, not as an afterthought. You should be able to easily explore the art without distractions. You won’t find anything here that doesn’t belong.

Thanks for visiting, and I look forward to your feedback!