Let’s talk about this site a bit.
I have been looking at executing a major realign for over six months. It’s not that I hated the old site or anything but felt that it no longer represented me or my skills as a designer. A sudden career change was the perfect excuse for me to make the leap. I am still very proud of the last version. I built it on Ruby on Rails with it’s own custom content management system, it used valid xhtml strict and css markup to form the front end and had a great look that truly represented my personality.