Also, if you use Twitter and would like to be updated whenever I post something new, please follow designment. I wanted “sinceriously,” but it was taken… by someone who doesn’t even use it. Hate. Anyway, happy Friday!

Furthermore, the site is now 100% accessible by Internet Explorer 7* users. When I finally checked the site in IE there was only minimal damage. Which took me all of about an hour to fix.

I promised to write an article about Internet Explorer, and common problems you should beware of when building cross-browser compatible sites. I hope to write that article soon.

—Ryan

* As of this writing, the site is still inaccessible to anyone who is unfortunate enough to browse using Internet Explorer 6. Maybe I’ll get to troubleshooting for that browser in another 10 days.

Hi. My name is Ryan Jennings. Welcome to my blog. I’m not a procrastinator, per se, I’m just easily disenchanted.

And that is why this blog is so important. But before I continue, a little history is in order.

I’ve been a designer and front end web developer for a while now. It’s something I enjoy, which made it a nice career choice. In fact, I like it so much that I often steal as much free time as possible to work on personal designment/development (new word) projects. Unfortunately, true “spare time” is few and far between and even quickie projects often get dragged on for weeks or months. This leads to the aforementioned disenchantment which ultimately leads to indefinitely shelved projects.

I have great ideas (at least, I believe with time and effort they’d mature into great ideas), so how can I hold my attention from concept to launch?

It’s time to eliminate the shroud of mystery I so delicately wrap around ideas. The secrecy only makes it easier to kill ideas without anyone knowing they ever exist. It’s time to discuss projects openly and collaborate with others to bring them to existence.

And that is why this blog is so important. I’m going to use it to promote the growth and development of ideas and, along the way, use it as a forum to share my expertise and knowledge and openly discuss design and development obstacles.

And why is it named Sinceriously? Because, I sincerely and seriously want to grow as a designer and developer. And I want to help others who feel the same way. Also, someone in my old apartment building had a wireless network called “sinceriously” and I thought the name was cool and so grabbed the domain.

This blog is currently only viewable in Firefox and Safari. There’s a lot of tricky things I did in the wrap of the page, and I haven’t had time yet to ensure everything works correctly in Internet Explorer. So, one of this site’s first projects will be “Making your site look right in IE.” Look for that soon.

—Ryan

BTW, although the design and easter egg functionalities of this site are all of my own creation (and are based on real projects that were/are in development), everything was built on top of the amazing FREEmium WordPress theme designed by Paul Kadysz and developed by Dariusz Siedlecki. The FREEmium theme can be downloaded at www.freebiesdock.com, for free!