The thousands of papers, quotes, and books at Afterall.net are the fruit of my own abiding passion for ideas, particularly ideas related to the subject of faith and reason. During its tenure it has undergone several incarnations: in name, design, and delivery. It first appeared as "The Universe Next Door" in 1994, designed before Photoshop had layers and using static HTML pages; it was one of my first forays onto the Web. In 2002 it became "Afresh", then "Amidst", and finally, "Afterall". With the dawn of Open Source content management, I moved it first into the venerable Postnuke and finally, in 2004, into Xaraya in which it happily remains. It received its fifth and most recent redesign in 2006, boasting synthetic papers reflective of its academic pedigree, and of course a coffee stain for its bohemian philosophic ruminations. Afterall reflects my journey in Web design and development from the Web's incipient days in the early nineties through the maturation of technologies available today. It also represents my best efforts to organize and present large amounts of data as intuitively as possible. Xaraya isn't the ideal content management system for most projects, but it excels at large stores of information with its orientation toward query-based, dynamic pages. If you're feeling thoughtful, wander on over, grab a coffee, and reflect with me.
