My very first personal website! I'm sure in a year I'll be completely embarrassed, but right now I'm pretty durn proud of what I've done. In one day, I went from design concept to a template ready to be deployed. (Then I took the rest of the week to buy a domain name and hosting, fix a few little things, add content, &c.)

I took the opportunity with this design to write the site completely in HTML5. A combination of the <section>, <header>, and <article> elements allowed me to construct most of the content of the site, and with very few custom classes or IDs. Looking at my CSS as I write this, I see only 2 IDs used, and only one class. Most of the CSS styling was done simply by using child CSS selectors.

I then took my mockup, and quickly converted it to a Stacey template. I love Stacey because content management with it is so straight-forward. Look around on Stacey's site to see how it all works.

Finally, I had some fun and used Typekit to add webfonts!

Needless to say, I'm very happy with how it all worked out.