So what IS all this?
Me
I’m Michael Bester and I build websites. At the moment, I spend my working hours building website front ends as a Software Architect in the Interface Engineering group of an agency named Schematic.
Trained as a Jazz and Rock guitarist, I decided to switch gears after school and get into web design and development. Although I’ve been referred to as the Swiss Army Knife by colleagues past for my various geeky exploits, I spend most of my time making web pages work flawlessly and look good doing it. My hands are often dirty with CSS, Javascript, semantic HTML code. I can muster up enough Java or PHP chops when I’m in the right headspace, but I don’t often go too far down that path.
When I’m not being such a nerd, I like to get away from the computer and and maybe go on a hike, preferably where there are many trees, few people and perhaps a moose nearby.
This Site
This site serves as a portfolio for the work that I’ve done and a repository for a few things that I made over the years.
It was lovingly hand-coded on a Mac using TextMate – the best text/code editor on any platform anywhere, bar none. I use the Textpattern publishing platform to manage and maintain all the content on the site.
All the XHTML & CSS should validate and be semantically sound, but I won’t vouch for every page. If you see something errant, let me know.
Thanks for visiting.
