A last look at old and rusty.
A web developer's personal website is a lot like the mechanic's car, old, rickety, and neglected. If my website was made out of steel it would have turned into a pile of rust long ago. Without further ado, here is new offering at Les-Leach.com, I hope you find it to your liking.
The person responsible for the design of this new site is a good friend of mine, Greg Klein. Greg was one of the first people I made friends with when I relocated from Maine to Philly in 1999. I met him during my bicycle commute home through Wissahickon Park. At the time I was living in the Roxbourgh section of Philadelphia, which allowed me to sample some trail to and from work. We were both riding single-speed mountain bikes and I made some stupid remark to him along the lines of "one speed, the only way!" or the classic "one f'n gear!" I'm lucky he was friendly and didn't beat me senseless for being so annoying.
Greg is one hell of a graphic designer. I recently put up a new website for Greg at GregoryK.net. Head on over there and give his portfolio a look, I think you will find his work quite impressive. the back-end to his site is also pretty impressive, I created a custom CMS which allows him to change practically everything found on his site. I'll get into the details of that system at some other time.
When deciding on the format this site, I knew I didn't want a site that contained only work samples like the old crusty one. I wanted a site that would constantly change, that's why I decided on the blog format. I will post samples of my work here, but I also plan to share a little more. Stay tuned; you may pick up a trick or two.
