It Lives On The Interweb

Well, it’s been a few months com­ing and some long peri­ods of time between edits, design­ing and gen­eral atten­tion but finally I got down to it and made my site live. That’s right, after quite some time of own­ing the domain rgsanders.com I now have some­thing to show for it.

Luck­ily my wife is a tal­ented web­site / graphic designer (visit her here) and so I tasked her with design­ing the site itself, and obvi­ously being the finicky writer I am, I put the con­tent in to my own lik­ing. You can go ahead and find your way there via the link up top (to the left there), by typ­ing rgsanders.com into an address bar or sim­ply by click­ing here.

We went for a more casual approach, but one that main­tained a cer­tain style and con­sis­tency so that it car­ried through every page and reflected my own per­son­al­ity as much as a web­site can — God for­bid it turned out to be a ‘wel­come to my web­site’ exam­ple (this isn’t the late 90’s).

On the site itself I have put my short fic­tion sto­ries back up after tak­ing them off of my old blog­ger… blog and added a few other things. It will fill out in time, but con­sid­er­ing that I have been writ­ing for a long time and most of it is on paper, it will take time to type up my really old stuff — which I would like to do to show­case the ebbs and flows of what tal­ent I have had through the years.

In the end, I just wanted to get it live. It’s been sit­ting in my files for too long and I’m pay­ing for a domain I’m not using, so there it is. Feel free to tell me what you think, or of any cor­rec­tions you see.

For now though, please enjoy.

  • http://cirellio.wordpress.com cirellio

    Your por­tal page looks pro­fes­sional. I par­tic­u­larly like how you layed out the cur­rent projects and short sto­ries.
    Coin­ci­den­tally I’ve been try­ing to go live, too; made a lot of progress over the hol­i­day week­end (learn­ing PHP, took a refresher course on xml+css/messed around with vec­tor graph­ics).
    I think the hard­est part is the web graph­ics. It takes so much work and moti­va­tion just to make one nice-looking but­ton!
    Any­way, hope the domain name and pol­ished look nets you lots of hits :)

  • http://rgsanders.wordpress.com RG Sanders

    Thanks, Cir ;)

    See, I like play­ing with graph­ics and imagery, but this time I left it all up to the Mis­sus. She knows XHTML, CSS and all the fancy web-stuff so I just stepped aside.

  • http://www.cementum.co.uk Richard

    awe­some man, i’m going to sort out my port­fo­lio web­site in the new year, cur­rently at http://www.breadontoast.com , it does the job, but it’s also ter­ri­bly out of date, the back end is a blog­ging plat­form my mate built for me in 2003!

    hope it brings some inter­est in your work !

  • http://rgsanders.wordpress.com RG Sanders

    Out of date, sure. But I do like the Sex Pistols-esque feel, heh.

    But thanks, I too hope it brings some kind of interest.