February 18, 2010 - Changes in Galleries
I have completely revamped my Art and Tolkien pages, which were starting to seriously annoy me with their primitive and hackish means of navigation. I have used a script called Facebox for the reworked versions and I think it is much nicer. With this change, however, I have no choice but to say that JavaScript is definitely required to navigate this website. Additionally, I have removed some very old items from the Tolkien gallery which I do not think demonstrate the quality of artwork that I am capable of. Keeping a record of one's history is one thing, but publicly displaying eight-year-old scrawlings that make you yourself wince is quite another.
August 9, 2009 - A New Website and a New Theme
I just finished uploading and configuring the new website for the Noxubee County Public Library. Of the sites I have developed entirely by myself, this is most certainly the most ambitious, as it involves development in the complex Drupal content management system. Development in some sort of CMS was a necessity from the start; one of my primary objectives was to rework the existing site so that people did not have to know anything about HTML or Web development to create content for it. A blog platform such as WordPress was not sufficient either; as you can tell from visiting that link, a library's website is generally going to be much more than that. The website currently contains all the material that it had on its old format; I have not added anything new. However, this is going to change: In the near future, there will be a photo gallery and a blog, both of which should be maintained by numerous people (and not primarily me).
You'll also notice that I have repainted this website in a new theme, a more abstract and geometrical one that I have called "Ethereal." The color scheme is not that different from the previous Victorian theme, so the site's change should not be jarring to anyone's eyes the way the previous change might have been.
What Is This Website?
My name is Erin Thead, and this is my personal website and blog. I custom-built the main site—that is to say, the site that you are reading—and the WordPress theme for the blog, and I maintain them both independently. Some people think that is strange in this day and age, but I have found that I prefer it this way. It makes backups very straightforward, and I have full knowledge of the program code and markup used in the site, having written almost all of it.
The site contains mostly creative work that I have done relating to subjects that interest me, and the time frame for the work spans roughly a decade. The blog is primarily political (hence its name), but not exclusively.
For more information about me, visit my About Me page.