http://www.christophernoxon.com/newsitem/and_were_off
How redundant is it to announce the launch of a website on a website that is quite obviously already launched (and that you are presumably reading right this minute)? Answer: plenty redundant.
Still, I felt it only proper to shoot a little metaphorical starting pistol and put out a few random thoughts about the purpose, construction and organization of this here website (click on news for more)…
Three random thoughts on the purpose, construction and organization of this brand newish website:
1 - This site replaces a crappy but serviceable one I made with an EZ-Web Designer Kit six or seven years ago - the main purpose of which was to eliminate the chore of Xeroxing and envelope-stuffing every time I pitched a story. I put the first site together with the help of a friend who I then bugged every time I wrote something new. Now he’s busy being an attorney and raising a family, so it only made sense to create a site I could futz with myself (thanks to the backend application Expression Engine) without alienating friends who actually work for a living.
2 - All praise to Susie, Travis and Matt at Hop Studios, the best little web shop in the land. Cool folks, great techies and artful designers - ideal (and affordable) partners for creative sorts who need a web presence but need help with implementation. Hire them and support expatriate Americans who fled to Canada after Bush was elected!
3 - Re. the pictures on the right hand columns - the potted succulent plants that appear over there on the left (and again on the APPEARANCES page) were photographed at Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino, CA; the boy and girl figures that appear on the HOME and CONTACT pages can be found at the Fairyland park in downtown Oakland.
4 - Feel free to drop me a line if you have any suggestions, comments, questions or spot any errors.