Fetus to Papa

It’s been a very long journey through the birth canal to get this project up and running. So long in fact that I’ve started to believe that the project had been cursed by some angry god.



It’s here now though, so it can’t be all bad. But Its almost been a whole year since I first designed and concept-ed this site. It was combination of having a lot of work on and the fact that my developers were dropping like flies. I must have gone through at least 4 or 5 before having Shannon come aboard and finally get this thing together. I don’t want to dis or publicly mention who they are, but if one you is reading this…

HA! ITS ONLINE! *Clears throat* Right… Anyway have a look at some of the earlier versions of the site.
Old site sketches

Papa 1 Papa 2 Papa 3



As you can see, I decided go html from the very start. Even though I am a Flash advocate, I decided to go away from the Flash-based website for my own use. Why?

  1. Because it just isn’t easy to update, plus I do so many different things that making a really cool Flash site to go along with all the content would take forever to build.
  2. The time it would have taken to build it would be even longer than this site.
  3. I just can’t take looking at XML constantly to update my own site.
  4. I wanted a robust CMS system, so WORDPRESS it was.
  5. A fast loading site!
  6. Uber Google-friendly.
  7. Ability to easily change the look and feel of the site for when I get bored with it.

I know that Flash can do all of these things above by all means, but it takes a great developer to do it. Which I am not. Those developers aren’t cheap either.

At the time of writing this, the site isn’t completely finished. I still want to make this custom theme available for download for all. That will take some time, as it still has some way to go to be a Wordpress certified theme. If you notice anything that could help me and Shannon make this site reach full maturity… Don’t be shy! Give us a holla!