I’ve known for some time now that my Online Portfolio site was outdated in both its content and layout, but had been taking my time coming up with something new for it, or just updating it in general.

One reason I was so slow on updating the content was because of the way in which I designed the gallery.  I still like the idea that I originally came up with, it was just not practical for easy updates.

With that in mind I had been trying to come up with a new design for my portfolio site, both for the layout and image gallery.  I came up with a few different of ideas and tried a couple of them out to decide what would look best, while at the same time, be able to build and make function correctly.  I came down to two main ideas, and worked on getting both of them to work the way I wanted.  My original idea to use Lightbox, with some slight modifications, together with an interesting sliding-gallery script that I liked gave me quite a bit of trouble for a while, and in the end, was only about half way completed.  I never got to the point of adding in the sliding-gallery in, but I did finally correct the problems in the Lightbox modifications[?] so that I got it working the way I was hoping.

The next idea I had was not for the gallery itself, whereas the Lightbox mods mentioned above were for the display of the actual images.  This idea didn’t use JavaScript at all, it was in-fact all CSS based, so this one I was able to create from scratch myself.  The main idea for the new gallery display was that of something similar to framed pictures on a shelf, with an emphasis on the highlighted (by mouse) image.

Once I came up with an idea I was happy with for the layout of the site, I realized that combining both the ideas mentioned above would be the best choice to use with the new design for the portfolio site.  With all that said, I did, after a long dry period for the site, complete and upload the new site yesturday, and it is now fully online and operating correctly, for the most part, in all major browsers.  The only problem I’ve run into is with Internet Explorer, big surprise there, right?  Even still, it looks and runs fine, so there really isn’t any problem with the site’s usability.  Everything is on there that I wanted to include, and I will be added new items that I have done as more are made.

Please take a look at the site, I am very pleased with how it turned out.
Thanks for reading.

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When I was 21