about the site
I've owned the timfg.com domain since the mid-90s - just early enough to realise that having my own snappy domain name was a good thing, too late to register all the commercial ones with tenuous links to me, in order to make my fortune by holding corporates to ransom over them. But timfg.com works well for me, since I have a three-course meal of a surname and timfg is what I've been known as since school.
Primary motivation was to secure an email address for life but, inevitably, I made some early forays into web design - coding was what I was doing for a living, I couldn't help but try and absorb everything Interweb as it emerged in the early years of the decade and, heck, my provider gave me a bit of space to doodle about in. In it's earliest form I think timfg.com hosted a tribute to Edwyn Collins - but he didn't want to give me money for it (no vision, the fickle fool) so it turned to wibble about me. I only really paid it attention when I bought a first digital camera in Singapore in 1999, since the web was such an obvious way to share snaps.
The site's been through a couple of major revamps since and I'm rather hoping this will be the last: I haven't got time to fiddle about with it more than is necessary to keep it current. There was a time when I really enjoyed faffing about with different web-design packages but it's no longer a sensible approach - everything I can keep in the cloud is already there and, finally, someone's managed to do the same for web design in a startlingly accomplished fashion.
So, the ethos now is:
I already do all sorts of cloudy, social stuff - so this becomes part of a bigger picture, in which other media can function better to reflect a pacy, networked world. timfg.com is still my shopfront and the only official representation of the timfg 'brand' - anyone claiming an interest in timfg beyond this site will incur the wrath of me and the best legal team I can afford (also me - but I've rolled a few over in the Small Claims Court in my time...)
Primary motivation was to secure an email address for life but, inevitably, I made some early forays into web design - coding was what I was doing for a living, I couldn't help but try and absorb everything Interweb as it emerged in the early years of the decade and, heck, my provider gave me a bit of space to doodle about in. In it's earliest form I think timfg.com hosted a tribute to Edwyn Collins - but he didn't want to give me money for it (no vision, the fickle fool) so it turned to wibble about me. I only really paid it attention when I bought a first digital camera in Singapore in 1999, since the web was such an obvious way to share snaps.
The site's been through a couple of major revamps since and I'm rather hoping this will be the last: I haven't got time to fiddle about with it more than is necessary to keep it current. There was a time when I really enjoyed faffing about with different web-design packages but it's no longer a sensible approach - everything I can keep in the cloud is already there and, finally, someone's managed to do the same for web design in a startlingly accomplished fashion.
So, the ethos now is:
- Host photos external to the site - because it's easier to manage them (or move them if needed)
- Avoid having to do frequent updates, by not writing crap that becomes out of date by Thursday
- Enable a proper mobile-friendly version - this will work on your smartphone in a functional way
- Stop blogging with an external provider - which cost me (a small sum of) money - and host the blog on my domain
- Allow my growing family access to edit the bits of the site that pertain to them
I already do all sorts of cloudy, social stuff - so this becomes part of a bigger picture, in which other media can function better to reflect a pacy, networked world. timfg.com is still my shopfront and the only official representation of the timfg 'brand' - anyone claiming an interest in timfg beyond this site will incur the wrath of me and the best legal team I can afford (also me - but I've rolled a few over in the Small Claims Court in my time...)