Everyone needs a sweet personal website. I have a blog right now, but I just use Posterous. I want to hand craft my own html and javascript to make it my own creation. Why? Because I need to know how to do it. I need to know how it works. I am sick of templates and "this is great but…" and not being able to fix it.
I was scanning the interwebz for inspiration and I found it. Mick Hagen. I am going to copy http://mickhagen.com/ Mick is a great entrepreneur who founded Zinch. His site is simple, and classy.
So how do I do it? I spend a few minutes poking around Mick's site with the Dev tools on Safari. What I found was good and bad.
Good – simple site, not too much going on.
Bad – lots of jQuery.
How much do I know about jQuery? Well… I know it is a great web technology and I know the framework uses lots of $ symbols. Can you guess what my post tomorrow will be about?
So my goal is to have a simple (simple people) personal website up and live on the internet, in 2 weeks.
#LetsDoThis Day 2
(I think Captain America would have his own website. And we all know how it would be. Awesome.)