New Website -- (Almost) Up and Running
Posted by Paul
On a long road trip up to Houghton, MI, I was able to generate a lot of the content for my site. I hope you enjoy it.
Site Rationale
Posted by Paul
I was going to label this section the Site Mission, but I hope(d) never to be at the point in my life where I would ever have to write a Mission Statement -- those things seem so incredibly high-level and abstract and just incredibly non-quantifiable. So Rationale it is.
I think I've finally gotten to the point in my life where I have information to share with the world that might actually make a valuable social contribution (woo for getting an education!). I mean to contrast this with the old Angelfired webites with a whole bunch of animated GIFs and BGSOUND. Anyways for now, this site is my means of distributing said information.
An Aside on Web Design
Posted by Paul
Part of what inspired me to design this site was that I had seen a number of web sites that contained a great deal of useful information, but were designed terribly. Sites that contain nothing but black text on white backgrounds and tables are what I mean. Wow, you've written your site in a text editor and have mastered use of the <h1> and <strong> tags.
While I am an engineer, I do value good design principles. I am certainly not a web designer, but this site serves as proof that there are enough resources out ther to help a relative layman when it comes to web design to create a reasonable looking site without devoting too much time.
Future of the Site
Posted by Paul
I will do my best to continually update the existing sections of this site. In the future, I would like to add a Photo sections to showcase some of my photography.