Sadly this means that I have spent exactly 0% of my time on my personal projects, more specifically my Left 4 Dead level. It just never feels like a priority when I have some time left over to do something productive. I'm going to have to finish it eventually because I made this silly promise to myself to never leave a project unfinished that I published on this site. But right now it looks like it's going to take a while.

I realised that I wanted one of those cool flashy open-image-in-a-window-with-a-dimmed-background things. Some googling had me realise it was incredibly easy to do so I just went ahead and implemented it. Apparently they are called lightboxes and here is where I got mine.

The top button (About) is the information HUB. This is where fun facts about what this site is about and who I am etc. is presented. As I'm writing this there isn't much there to see but I'll work on that continuously as time goes by.

The middle button (Projects) leads to a very familiar page. It is what used to be the only part of my website. Not much to say here, it still looks and behaves the same.

The third button (Weblog) is where you are right now! It's pretty self-explanatory. It's a little blog where I can pointlessly submit my random thoughts and ideas for all the world to see (or most likely ignore completely). Isn't the internets wonderful?

Well, I have thought about getting a Blog on my website for quite some time. My Project updates have become increasingly littered with personal stuff and that's not what they are for. So I thought having some place to type in random thoughts and ideas would be a good idea.

At first I thought it would be very convenient to take some existing blog software somewhere and just customize it to look like my website and integrate it accordingly. That turned out to be much more of a pain in the a-hole than I had originally imagined. Most Blogs have a gazzillion unneccesary features that I have no use for whatsoever. I just wanted a nice little white box to type text into and hit "submit" every now and then with.

So I abandoned that idea and started looking for some news posting or commenting scripts. As I was struggling with getting CuteNews to look and behave like I wanted it to I realised how easy it would be to just continue doing what I have been doing in my Project pages all this time; doing everything manually in a HTML document!

So this is the result of that decision. About as bare-bone as a Blog gets. At least I incorporated a neat click-to-hide feature to avoid clutter. Time will tell how efficient this method is going to be. In any case I will probably end up doing some more significant upgrades at some point in the future. This solution will probably hold up and keep me satisfied until then.