About the Site

Introduction

Welcome to the online portfolio and musings of Chris O’Rourke a all around geek residing in beautiful Portland Oregon. You can find a little of everything usually present in my mind and what thoughts I have on designers and designs that inspire me. You can check out examples of my design work as well as a monthly free wallpaper in a variety of sizes. The links pages will offer links to excellent technical resources and informational sites. If you’re looking for a standards based designer who will give you cost effective solutions then you’ve come to the right place.
This site is running on:

• A heftily modified WordPress basic framework.
• Mint from Shaun Inman.
• A Healthy amount of compliant Xhtml.
• An even healthier amount of CSS.
• A smattering of other tidbits of code.

The last WordPress theme I used was a custom written theme called cdcreboot in honor of the initial CSS Reboot in May 2005. As I change the look of the site throughout the coming year I’ll eventually be cleaning up and releasing each theme I’ve developed as a free download in the soon to launch downloads section. There’s a lot of other tweaks and snippets of code from a variety of resources and inspirations on the net running under the hood but suffice it to say the site is running on a zero-hack, cleanly coded semantically marked up framework. Thanks go out to those who inspired it and those who’ve complimented it.

Thank you for visiting and enjoy.