The Beginning, Part II

Sunday, August 13th, 2006 at 22:16 Sunday, August 13th, 2006 at 22:16

Ross and I have been exploring the online world - and making websites - for a long time. I don't remember the exact date, but I know that I was still packing my lunchbox, taking the bus to school, and enjoying some form of recess/PE. My recollection of our first website would make your eyes bleed. "Tristan and Ross' Cool Website" was two frames (one for main content, the other a left navigation), and had a background wallpaper pattern that gave you a headache. It was utterly incomprehensible, but generally contained a linklist of things we thought, to put it plainly, were cool.

As much as we look back and laugh, considering that we were probably not much more than 12 or 13 at the time, I still think that that site is cool. And, in a lot of ways, things that we think are "cool" is what Techfoolery is about. We're both fortunate to have day jobs that have online as part of their job description, me in PR, Ross in engineering. This website will be a place where we can share some of what we do for a living, as well as share those things that make us say "cool."

We're excited to get started and plan on making a meaningful contribution to this space without taking ourselves too seriously. Hence, the name, Techfoolery.

Comments

Silab:Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006 at 7:27 #1

hi, just visited ur site through ccsmania. u have a really cool design. but u should check ur comments-form. there should be some error-checking for blank fields.

bye

Ross:Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006 at 23:56 #2

An excellent point. It seems that the client-side validation wasn't catching them all, and the server-side validation was definitely on the weak side. Both have been beefed up a bit.

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