This site is run on the WordPress blogging engine. The design originally started out as a heavily-modified version of Patricia Müller’s Connections theme. I liked the layout and the colour scheme, but I wasn’t crazy about the motoring theme. As well, I wanted a 3-column layout for my main blog page—so that I could show things like recent comments, login info, and so on—and a 2-column layout for the individual pages. In the 2-column layout I didn’t want all of the extra information.
Much later I integrated a number of ideas and code snippets from Ajay d’Souza’s Connections Reloaded which is itself a customizaton of Connections. But because I had already customized the original theme so much, I had to integrate these revisions manually.
Important plugins include Bad Behavior and Spam Karma 2, which seem to keep out the undesirables such as spam bots and their ilk. The site map is built automatically by the Dagon Design Sitemap Generator. I also have an assortment of plugins that affect the display of the site, and others to help with site administration.
I built the site myself, with a good dose of trial-and-error and copious help from online documentation. The site is hosted by WestHost, who will give me a referral credit if you tell them I sent you. I haven’t had any major complaints about them, and haven’t felt a great need to look for someone else to host my sites.
The web galleries in my portfolio are loosely based on a concept and code by Ben Long of Complete Digital Photography. Code to watermark hotlinked images is based on code by Patrick Benny.
Photo Credits
Most of the photos of my physical art works are by Grant Kernan of AK Photos in Saskatoon. The photo of me is by Jan Henrikson. Unless otherwise noted, all of the photos in my journal are by me.