About Chris Kelly
Born in New Jersey, raised primarily in New Hampshire, with stops in Florida, Puerto Rico, and Connecticut along the way. I attended Virginia Tech, graduating with a degree in Computer Science before moving to Long Island. New York wasn't really my style, so 18 months later, I found myself back in New England, where I reside to this day.
I'm a web developer with over 10 years of experience, revolving around XHTML/ CSS design and development. I love all things web: Books on CSS, Web Frameworks and all the outrageous things people can do with Javascript these days.
In my personal time I enjoy movies, music, snowboarding, and spending time with friends and family.
About ckelly.net
This site had its humble beginnings as a personal home page, sometime in high school in the late 90s. At one time it was hosted on my local ISP server, and later with friends who had their own hosted boxes.
In 2000, I registered this domain and brought over the personal home page as was. Around the same time, I was experimenting with blogging on the now defunct EditThisPage.com. In 2002, with the advent of Movable Type as the first popular self-hosted blogging platform, and following a few caffeine-fueled nights in my college dorm, I launched what I consider the official "Version 1" of ckelly.net. In the process of doing so, I wiped out the old static home page and integrated all the Edit This Page posts into Movable Type.
The site itself has gone though many incarnations since then. Version 2 was the transition away from Movable Type to Wordpress. Version 3 (this site) eschews Wordpress in favor of a from-the-ground-up CMS written in Python and using the Django framework.
The rollout of Version 3 is scheduled to be at least two phases; Phase 1 consists of my About, Resume, and Projects pages. Phase 2 will launch after with some really cool features I can't wait to code up. Stay tuned.
All content on this site was created on Apple computers using the great TextMate editor