Donald Jenkins: all sorts of stuff

My new website, which I coded myself over a couple of days, is a bit of a landmark in my four-year blogging experience: I designed and coded it using the tools I had been dabbling with over the past few months and dispensing with off-the-peg templates altogether. Starting from a stripped-down version of the WordPress template, I designed the theme, wrote the CSS and coded the pages, using Coda, a rather clever little application that has now matured, three years after its launch. In doing this I have merely been going further along the minimalist road that I had set upon four years ago when I first started blogging: the result is a site that is less of a blog and more of a place where I can share my online presence (meaning, essentially, Flickr and Twitter, while keeping Facebook separate for interaction with people I know in real life.

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