geekview is basically just a hare-brained idea I had one day. Kind of like a blog, but instead of writing my life story (because frankly, no one cares, nor should they), I use this as a place to review movies/shows/commercials/whatever I've seen/heard, post news I find interesting, and complain about (and post pictures of) blatantly stupid people. The latter of these topics should give me a plethora of things to write about for the next while.

If you do a view-source on these pages, you'll notice there are absolutely no tables at all. The pages are rendered entirely by css. All of the images come in the form of css element background images. This means if you're using a text-only browser, the site should still be completely useable for you. Also, if you turn off css, you'll get text links instead. Page readers should have no problem perusing this site either. Nor should the visually impaired. I don't make your browser use really small font. The technology I used to get to this was learned by following links and reading lots of documents all stemming from css zen garden. The site's layout is only one page. Then, using server-side includes, and symbolically linked files, I create the content. The articles that are not static pages are regenerated every 15 minutes from a mysql db, and placed in static files. The data doesn't change often enough to warrant real-time data pulling. This site is designed to render on pretty much any browser, using whatever choice of technologies you've chosen to enable or disable, is valid xhtml 1.0 transitional, contains valid css, passes wai, and 508 accessibility checks. It was designed by Steve Spencer using Macromedia Dreamweaver, but was then pulled apart, made to render using css, and made xhtml compliant by myself using nothing more than VIM.

I originally registered geekview in early 2001, with the intention to do something with it. Unfortunately, due to lack of both time, and motivation, I was unable to get it done until now (mid-2005). Needless to say, I'm hoping this can become a regularly updated site.