So I was ranting the other night (or technically morning but it was bedtime for me) about how I stay up all night obsessing over minute details that aren't going to make me any money...

Well when I finally awoke the next morning (OK it was really early evening the same day), I ate breakfast (alright, "dinner"), and then I set myself in front of my computer, determined to not get up until I did something productive.

Behold, the result of my productivity:

FairMona.com

But first, a little backstory...

Régis Camargo, my UCLA Animation buddy (and semi-regular reader of this here blog) has a brother, Marcel, who is in a musical duo called Fairmona. Marcel and his bandmate, Barbara Gruska, knew they were going to be embarking on a month-long cross-country TOUR with Inara George, so they enlisted me to set up a website for them.

I got right to work trying to set up a backend administration control panel using various Content Management Systems, but none of them really did exactly what I wanted. Then about a month passed until this last weekend before I met with Barbara and Marcel again and they gave me pictures and other bits of content to put up on the site ASAP since they were leaving for the tour on Monday (today!!!). I decided to give MD-Pro, one of the Content Management Systems, another try but before I got very far using the CMS to add the content, I was distracted and I found myself working on the RSS Feed Aggregator on this here blog all night. I went to bed (after posting a rant) pissed at myself for working on my own site instead of the website for Fair Mona.

Luckily I wasn't too tired or depressed when I awoke to get right to work on designing and coding FairMona.com. I pretty much sat at my computer for about 12 hours straight and though I did take a break to post about the controversial statements made by rapper Kayne West, I was able crank out a really simple, but highly functional website that I think Marcel, Barbara and their fans are gonna love.

The only problem is that I was hoping to have a backend admin panel so that Barbara and Marcel could edit and add content themselves, but since I pretty much gave up on using a CMS and created the entire site from scratch using only a text editor, it looks like someone, probably me, is going to have to manually edit the contentso if they want to make changes to the website when they back from their tour. At least I used an external Cascading Style Sheet so it'll be pretty easy to make changes to the basic style and layout. Then again, I'm really pleased with the layout I created and the response I've gotten from people who've already seen the site has be very positive, so I'm hoping it's gonna stick.

OK, now that you know the work I put into it, go and behold FairMona.com.

Definitely check out the tunes on the MUSIC page.

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Currently listening to: Fair Mona