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The Website

Emotiomental Graffiti is, to most people, an online collection of various written works (fiction, nonfiction, and otherwise), choice pieces of artwork (traditional, digital, and otherwise), select WordPress themes, and other random (and not-so-random) creative odds and ends and endeavors.

To me, Emotiomental Graffiti is my ship, plane, and submarine that takes me on my many adventures through the various depths of imagination and dreams.

To me, Emotiomental Graffiti are the oft-forgotten scrawlings on back alley walls lost within the folds of time, space, and place.

To me, Emotiomental Graffiti is simply what it is - something that only I will ever completely understand.

The mood and the imagination are the only limits, so there's no telling what sort of content one might find around here, so check back often and see what's up.

To read more about Emotiomental Graffiti, please click HERE.

In regards to the design of this site, please click HERE.

For updates to the site, please click HERE.

The Webmaster

(that's me) is Emotiomental Graffiti's website owner, author, artist, and general carpenter, fix-it person, bookkeeper, janitor, and all-around grease monkey.

In other words, I write (all kinds of things), create artwork (both traditional and digital), do front-end web development stuff (XHTML and CSS - aka structure and design), and take care of everything on this site from coding to content development to commentary cleanup.

Toldja I'm an all-around grease monkey and yes, I like alliteration.

... I also sometimes like to use four letter words (particularly when mad and/or trying to make an emphasis). For more information about that, please click HERE.

For more information about me, please click HERE.

If you are interested in hiring me, please click HERE.

And if you would like to get in touch, please click HERE.

The Mission

My mission in being the Emotiomental Graffiti artist is:

To come and go as I am and to create in accordance to my core beliefs and philosophy with as little compromisation of my values as possible.

And, no, I am NOT talking about religion, though I'm sure some of my fellow artists and writers and web developers consider their professions to be their religions or second only to their religions.

For more information about my philosophy, please read the next text block.

The Philosophy

RE: Communication

To communicate in a way that is:

Honest, open, as thorough as necessary, as patient as possible, and appropriate to the situation.

RE: Writing

To create creative written works that are:

Honest, raw, meaningful, and true to myself.

RE: Artwork

To create creative graphic works that are:

Unique, have their own style, and pack the punch that is necessary.

RE: Web Design

To create and code websites that are:

Clean, Standards-compliant, W3C-valid, accessible, and suitable for the needs.

RE: Living Life

To live life in a way that is:

Honest, meaningful, conscientious, compassionate, and true to myself.

RE: In More Detail

For more philosophy (or things related to philosophy), please click HERE.

& Gettin' Lucky With Google

You heard me right. But that's not what I mean! Get your head out of the gutter, will ya? ;)

When I say I'm 'Gettin' Lucky With Google' I mean that I'm TRYING to get lucky with Google ad streams. A test of my prowess, you can say, when it comes to implementing AdSense and the like and a test of Google's ability to match website content to appropriate ads.

So. Whaddya say? Have a peek at the ads (NO, you certainly don't have to click! Just look!) and give me feedback on the ad content so I can figure out how 'lucky' I can get with Google?

insert Google Ads here

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    • Site Update: Website Loading Issues March 6, 2010
      After installing Google Analytics to my website and blog site… I started noticing some strange layout loading problems on my sites. Namely, these problems specifically involve my entire site loading approximately 25 to 50px vertically lower than it should. The topbar main navigation should be hugging the top, right? And before I installed Google Analytics […]
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    • Site Update: Server Switcheroo! July 16, 2009
      So… whoa. If anyone has visited my site in the last week, you might have noticed that it was sporadically offline or was giving error messages. Sorry about that! Due to situations beyond mine or my web host’s control, I am being switched to a new server (my old one was… well… too old?) and where I believe [...] […]
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    • Site Update: RSS Feed Content Going Wonky July 5, 2009
      WTF, My RSS feed blocks (which happen to feed in content – update posts in particular – from each of my respective posting categories) are apparently all messed up. In particular, my RSS feed block for my blog updates is messed up. Instead of showing three posts from my Blog Updates category, it’s showing the last three [...] […]
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  • RSS Blog Updates

    • Blog Update: Giving Props! March 8, 2010
      The Giving Props sidebar widget block finally has content! Took me long enough, huh? It’s still not 100% done, but it’s close! Have a look! ~ EMG Afterthought: Maybe I should clone that Giving Props block and import a copy to the main site here… […]
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    • Site Update: Website Loading Issues March 6, 2010
      After installing Google Analytics to my website and blog site… I started noticing some strange layout loading problems on my sites. Namely, these problems specifically involve my entire site loading approximately 25 to 50px vertically lower than it should. The topbar main navigation should be hugging the top, right? And before I installed Google Analytics […]
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    • Blog Update: AddThis Angst July 19, 2009
      So uhmmm… whooops? The newer version of the WordPress-specific AddThis coding (the one you can manually add to your posts that uses the php echo?) does NOT validate through W3C. It WORKS, but because of the ampersand and perhaps something else, W3C is going bonkers over it, offering up anywhere between 5 to 9 errors [...] […]
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  • RSS Project Updates

    • Project Update: In the Works July 4, 2009
      Hey there, Though the Projects section of the website is not up yet (and probably won’t be up for a little while), I thought I’d let you all know that despite not having any of the content up, I do have projects in the works. Once I get the main portion of the website along with the [...] […]
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  • RSS Portfolio Updates

    • Portfolio Update: Works In Progress July 4, 2009
      Hi again, This update is to let everyone know that once the blog is re-themed and restructured, work will begin on the Portfolio section of the website. I have a lot of additional material to add to my portfolio from the last time I posted it anywhere, so it’s going to be interesting to see how much [...] […]
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  • RSS Store Updates

    • Store Update: Store Not Yet Open July 4, 2009
      Hey there yet again! This is the last update for today, I promise. As you can well guess, the Storefront part of the website is not yet open for business. The Storefront will be the last part of the Emotiomental Graffiti website to open (I intend to have the main section, blog, and portfolio all up and ready [...] […]
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  • Other Websites

    Here is a listing of other website projects that I have worked on or am currently working on/involved with - professionally, personally, and/or otherwise.

  • Other Places

    Where else am I on the web? I'm not much of a community person, but here are a few places where you might find me wandering around.

    • WordPress.org Support Forums
    • WordPress.com Support Forums
    • Firefox Forums
    • Opera Forums
    • Pandora
  • Other Spaces

    If you're interested in recommendations:

    Web Hosting

    • Green hosting with Dreamhost! There are a lot of webhosts out there and I've given a few of them a run for their services (while they've given me a run for my money) and after all this time... Dreamhost wins my vote. The price is right, the package has everything I need, the CPanel has everything right at my fingertips, there's Fantastico's One-Click Installs (you can still do everything manually if you want), but most importantly, their customer support for me has been nothing short of OUTSTANDING. Add to the fact that Dreamhost is also now green? That's pretty damned awesome. Go visit them yourself or read my full review for more information.

    Web Applications

    • WordPress It! WordPress has come a long way, baby, and boy how it's grown! From the ability to create fully-customized static pages to the ability to customize the hell out of your post display Loop to the ability to change themes like a chameleon to all the plugins that are available for your WordPress-enhancing pleasure, WordPress has a lot going for it and to top it all off, it's open source and free to use! Perfect for bloggers, online journalists, writers, artists, and people in general like you who have something to say and who want to say it THEIR way, WordPress is the platform where ideas, thoughts, and experiences are presented in the way they were meant to be - in YOUR voice and with YOUR style.

    Coding Tools

    list coding tools here

    Design Tools

    list design tools here

    Shopping Stuff

    list shopping stuff here

  • And More!

    There are just some sites, apps, services, products, and people who (in my opinion) deserve their own little block here away from all the other links (or maybe in spite of all the other links).

    Green hosting with Dreamhost!

    WordPress It!

    EMG is at Carbonmade!

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