One of the things I talk about when I teach web design is the main page for your site. If you have a website of any complexity, you want your main page/splash page to help people find what they’re looking for.

Weblogs are nice and all, but it’s very difficult to find your way around someone’s site if you find them through their weblog. Frankly, most people assume that’s all their is and look no further, but I think it’s interesting to see what else people have to say about themselves.

Since as I mentioned before, this weblog is not all there is to my website, my splash page has links to take you wherever else you’d like to go.

As with the book page, you can view the page with IE, but the menus don’t work IE (the worst thing is they almost work IE7, but not entirely, which is worse than not working at all). So you really want to use Firefox or Safari or anything else. Then you’ll get to see the menus, which make me very very happy.

I was pretty much elated for a week when I got the menus to work.

What if you’re using IE? The buttons take you to a main page, and from there you can access the pages available on the sub menu.

Then again, the layout of the page also makes me squeal with glee. (You did know I was easily amused, right?) I love the way the layout moves when the page is resized. I learned more about web design working on that page than on anything else, because that’s where I’d test things as I’d learn them.

But to give credit where credit is due, Michael created the random image and quote generators for me. I could do it myself now, but when I initially decided what I wanted, he wrote the code for me. So yay Michael!

You may notice that the splash page has a title that doesn’t make much sense. At the bottom there’s a link for “the little cyclops puppy” and you can see where the title came from.

It won’t make a lot of sense even then, but that’s what the title of my site has been since 1998, and it seems silly to change now.

You’ll also see links to the Cats page, where you can see pictures of my fine felines. There is also a link to the Quotes page, so if you want to read all my random quotes at once, plus some quotes that didn’t get put into the random quote generator, that’s the place to go.

The most popular page is the Morgantownies site. This is a page that was created by Gina, Erin, and me one day when we were really bored, and has snowballed out of control since then. Someone e-mailed me and told me I should enter everything into a database and make the page searchable and add photos…

No. It started as a lark. I’ll continue to maintain it, but I do NOT have the time to invest in creating a database and entering the data, and I definitely don’t have the time to make a searchable index, and adding photo–to do it right would chew up bandwidth like you wouldn’t believe. This is a site I pay for myself, and aside from the Amazon links, I don’t have advertising, and I plan to keep it that way.

Maybe one day when I’m rich and have oodles of free time. But not today, this week, or this year.

There are other pages as well, many of which have not been updated in a disgustingly long time. One day I may do something about that, but again, not today.

So there you go. My website is more than my weblog. Feel free to go explore and have fun. Or not. Either way is fine with me.