Since 1995
In the vintage mid-nineties, projects were "personal pages" at Prodigy and Tripod, crafted in html with Homesite and uploaded via ftp. Remember when it was sooo cool to hear the ding on your computer, "you've got mail!" and sooo forward-feeling to listen to your dial-up modem go chrreee? In 2003 the Fantastico installer enabled easy set-up for php-Nuke at several webhosts (eg Bluehost). PhP-Nuke is a database driven "open source" technology that uses MySQL and webforms to upload text for speedy and well-organized display. Soon after that, it was either broadband or divorce. Since then I've added some other blog projects: the WordPress blog installed by Fantastico, movabletype installed by this webhost (MediaTemple), Drupal at I forget where exactly, and ExpressionEngine by Engine Hosting. Meanwhile, Homesite has given way to Dreamweaver, the editor I use for this page. A nifty "put" feature on Dreamweaver allows the editor to place updates at the server with a few clicks. Dreamweaver also makes a great editor for the few php files that have to be modified for customized style at the blogs. With the CS4 suites, your Dreamweaver comes bundled with Photoshop and Fireworks. Offline, I'm still developing skills at XML editing, with the oXygen editor, using mostly DocBook (and someimes TEI) tags. Projects below represent evolutions in technology and -- if you will -- conception (Updated New Year 2009).