About This Site
Take a look behind the scenes and see what makes this site tick. Everything from layout ideas and history to the tools I use to code, design and power the various sections of my site to my wonderful host.
Disclaimer
This site was designed for Firefox and is best viewed on a standards compliant browser (aka not IE). While every attempt was made to make this work in as many browsers as possible, there is no guarantee that all styles will look as they should if you use a non-standards compliant browser (aka crappy IE).
Layout
On August 10, 2003 I launched Version 2.0 of Kitzzy.com, The Onliest One, dedicated to my favorite Disney character Tigger. I still kept the WTF Kitzzy.com logo, just updated it to match the new layout. For a short period after Version 2.0 I had several styles to choose from on my site (WTF, Bricks and The Onliest One) but I decided to get rid of them because I wanted my blog and wiki to match and customizing each of those for one style is work enough :) Jason and I had been working on a Strong Bad project which we are no longer persuing. I liked the layout so much on April 9, 2005 I decided to use it for this site instead of letting it go to waste. Since this layout no longer features the WTF logo, I guess it's Version 3.0, also know as Cwapface.
Previous Versions
- [04.09.05 - ??.??.??] Cwapface
- [08.26.04 - 02.12.05] Bricks (v2.0 alternate style)
- [08.10.03 - 04.09.05] The Onliest One (v2.0)
- [04.24.03 - 08.10.03] WTF (v1.0)
- Kitzzy's Tropical Paradise (Pre-Kitzzy.com)
- Kitzzy Abridged (Pre-Kitzzy.com)
History
I always wanted to own my own domain and so finally here we are. I've owned the domain since January, 2003 (wow) but had been too busy to put anything in it. On April 24, 2003 I finally decided to get off my bum and do something with it and the first draft of Version 1.0 went up. When I first put up a site it was rather bland, just text and color, no graphics. It simply said Kitzzy.com in the top left corner in plain text. It was boring. So I set out to create a logo with my limited graphics ability.
I figured, I love smilies so this is fitting. Not sure why I picked the WTF smilie, probably cuz out of all the big smilies I found at mysmilies.com was the most fitting because when people here kitzzy.com they will probably go huh? WTF? So it fits. *shrug* Initially I had just added the smilie in purple (its original color) in front of the text that said "Kitzzy.com" because just couldn't stand to have just text up there any more. But it wasn't lining up right so I had to make a graphic of it and then I thought ... hey why not make the smilie part of the URL so it doesnt look like I just stuck it in front of the next and that is how it came to replace the "o" so yeah ... Enjoy the logo =)
Tools of the Trade
My tool of choice is Dreamweaver MX 2004 and I am a Certified Dreamweaver MX Developer. Occasionally I also use Notepad and pico. ;) I coded this site using these tools, valid XHTML 1.0 Strict, CSS2 and PHP. This site also meets the Section 508 Accessibility Standards.
Hosting
I use Surpass Hosting as my hosting company. I have the Lite package which includes 1 GB of space and 15 GB of bandwidth. For details, view their Hosting Plans. Some of standard features include: PHP 4.3.2, mySQL, Perl 5.8.1, Linux RedHat OS, your own cgi-bin, FTP Access, unlimited e-mails, unlimted sub-domains and much more.
