The missing exhibit of things that I have done is, perhaps, zlopid.com its self. It has gone through countless revisions and reimaginings. It has been a portal, a blog, a listing of all the books and CDs I own (oh, what entertaining google queries that brought me), and a mess of content, barely organized. Some designs still impress me, while others give me a low opinion of myself.

That's really what's changed - the designs. Anything that's good has found a way to stick around, in one form or another. All the stuff in between, the filler and the failures, has been culled out. I expect that as I add more new thing to the site, they'll accumulate again, but I'll go back and cull them out again.

It's worth noting that this site doesn't have a conventional organization, or a fancy content-management backend; it is not built on rails or cake or ajax whiz-bang. It is plain HTML and CSS, without even server-side-includes. Why? Because I'm tired of designing a structure and then dumping the content into it. Websites are about the content! Each page has carefully considered content, and that's interesting. An equal attention to the design is also interesting, and it makes each page special.

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The goal is to transcend functionality, to make something which makes people stop, smile, and say, "this is nice."

This is how we make the world a better place - by making our tools better. Better tools enable others to do better things, and inspire others to make better tools themselves. Better resources enable others to have a better understanding, and inspire others to make better resources themselves.

Hello, my name is Aaron. This is my website. Most accurately, it is an exhibit of things that I have finished making.