Many hours of work upon my part have finally culminated in the premier of Ettrik. Josh had been wanting me to put together a small website for him for a while. While watching the Superbowl last February we decided to make it happen and during half time bought the domain name ettrik.com. Two Months, 1 week, and 4 days later I present to you the result of my hard work, and Josh's creative ideas. From being a hobby site for Josh the idea grew to include being a place to promote creative works however we can.

The site is connected to Google Checkout to allow for a secure, reliable ordering process. I wrote the entire thing from scratch over the last two months. It took about 3000 lines of code and a small database to get running, not too bad in my opinion considering I've never claimed to be a professional web developer.

The nice thing about this site is that it is 100% standards compliant with the W3C XHTML 1.0 Strict designation, and W3C CSS 2.1 standard. So the site looks almost exactly the same on any system with any browser. The only browsers that have difficulty are Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0, but hopefully anyone that actually uses Internet Explorer has upgraded to at least 7.0.

This was the pet project that I mentioned once a while back. I'm so glad to have it running. At this point I can sort of let it do its thing, and only touch it for small upgrades and bug fixes. Hopefully there won't be too many bugs that need fixing (I'm pretty sure I've got it well ironed out). But there will be features added over time, including an integrated search function.

Hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

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