While reading over the last post, I entirely forgot the purpose of the post was to let you guys know that I had made that website design ... it's actually a thing of real beauty (not just aesthetics-wise).

When I was first asked by Matt to do his website, I originally had planned to run the site off of my servers (so I would have access to PHP and mySQL). However, the school wouldn't let us host it on my servers, so I had to host it on UNC's awesome servers ... which originally I thought had no scripting capabilities.

So when making the site, I decided to finally adhere to standards and make a completely XHTML 1.0 Transitionally-valid site that was based solely on CSS for styles. After getting some help on #css on freenode, I finally got the CSS design done; I was pretty surprised how easy it was!

In any case, I decided to also use some of the stuff I learned from SimpleBits and make the HTML as semantically correct as possible.

And the end result? That wonderful website! I'm really proud on how clean the site's design is ... as well as its code. The coding really is *REALLY* need. The site complies with all accessibility guidelines, XHTML 1.0 standards, and CSS 2.0 standards. My first completely standard-oriented website!

But it was real fun to get back to just doing static HTML webpages. I've spent so much time fixing up database bottlenecks, rewriting PHP scripting, and planning website architectures (scaleability and such) that it was such a nice trip down memory lane.