The Reasoning

This site was made with the purpose of being useful to me. To be constructed from scratch by my self. So that I may learn how various code works and act as motivation to gather related knowledge.

Various content will be added over time that I will find ways to manage and manipulate.

The Template

This site uses something called a master-page in ASP. Parts of the pages that are repeated through all of the site. Can be written to one file and then be refered to from the various pages. This means that a new page only needs to hold its own unique content since everything else is already there. The real advantage comes when something has to be changed and only one file has to be edited. It also stops irregularities from appearing that otherwise are likely to appear if you had to manually change every page once and awhile. If you want to see what the master-page for this site supply each page with it can be seen here.

The Design

The design and layout of this site is done with a stylesheet. A stylesheet can contain all the formatting and design for the site in one file. The master-page in this case then refers to this stylesheet. This means that for a new page or new content the design part has already been done. The real advantage comes when something has to be changed in the design and only one file has to be edited. It also stops irregularities from appearing that otherwise are likely to appear if you had to manually change every page once and awhile. If you want to see how this site would look without the design/stylesheet, it can be seen for 10 seconds .

The Backgrounds

Most backgrounds on this site is made up of minor images repeated to make it feel like one huge picture had been used. The small images can do a lot more than a solid single color without taking up a full size large picture. The small images will also "stretch" the backgrounds to any size.
The picture shown to the left is the picture that makes up the content fields and menu backgrounds on site.