All you could possibly need to know about jamelah.net:

history:

One day, while I was a senior in high school (1997 was a grand year, except I think maybe I started this thing in 1996), I decided it would be cool to have a web page. So I got one at Geocities, put up a couple of teen-angsty poems of a horrible nature, and called it good. Months later, I learned how to format text and write links, so I linked to a couple of Soundgarden sites, put some stuff in italics, and then forgot about the site for a couple of years. I forget why, but at some point, I started fiddling around with this again, and it was pretty bad, but I thought it was cool. Eventually, and don't ask me how, I got all weird about CSS and fonts and other crap like that and I couldn't stop redesigning everything in an attempt to try out all the stuff I was learning. I also bought this domain. Yeah, jamelah.net -- proof that I'm not creative when it comes to naming things, and reason enough to pity my hypothetical future children, who as of right now, will all be named Bob.

design

You know how moving furniture can make you feel like you've got a new house? I feel that way about my website too, so I change the look of it quite a bit (you can see a gallery of old designs, (or at least the graphics from them) if you'd like). As always, the graphics were created in Adobe Photoshop, without abusing filters. Poster Edges is the devil, just admit it.

tech notes:

I made peace with Blogger, so I use that to manage my blog and its archives. I hand coded the pages in CSS and XHTML with good, old-fashioned trial-and-error, Notepad, several packs of cigarettes, a random soundtrack ranging from Wilco to Jay-Z, and, uh, the considerable force of my will, or something. My stylesheet is missing a semicolon and my server automatically inserts a script at the end of all of my pages, so neither the CSS nor the XHTML are technically valid, but they're really damned close, and at least I know how to make them that way. So there.

copyright & usage

jamelah.net, its design, and all images, logos, photographs and writings displayed within are the original creation of Jamelah Earle, copyright © 2002-2005, all rights reserved. Do not use any design element, image, logo, photograph, or piece of writing on a website, or in a magazine, book or other type of publication, without first obtaining my written permission. Stealing is lame. Don't make me have to turn this car around. Thanks.

credits

Many thanks to the veritable well of handy information that is A List Apart, and to the W3C (validators and otherwise) for helping me find all the bugs in my code. And of course to Firefox for being the new love of my life.

That's all. Thanks for stopping by.