After much procrastination, I grit my teeth and dove into the task of designing this site. A few days later, and Presto! There are still a few tweaks to be done, and bugs to stamp out, but am pleased with the result. I thought I would share a few tidbits about what tools and techniques I wound up using to hack it all together.

Built on Wordpress base developed on a Macbook Pro running MAMP. Hosted by Dreamhost. Theme hand-coded from the ground up, based on Fireworks mockup. Dreamweaver turned out to be all but useless (sorry Adobe!) – I ended up using CSSEdit, Coda and Firebug for layout and styling. Tasty Wordpress plugins: cforms ii and Lightview Plus. A sprinkling of Disable Smilies and served on Clean Permalinks. Yum.