When I set out to come up with a cool design for my site, I wasn't really sure what I was shooting for. I just downloaded Twitter Bootstrap and went to work throwing DIVs around. I'm pretty happy with how it came out, but one part that I really like a lot is the GitHub feed you see in the right hand column. I haven't ever seen a site with one and there weren't any tutorials on how to make one, so I figured I'd jump right in.

After asking around a bit on Twitter, I settled on Hostek to host my new site. It seemed like a good deal, and I figured I could spare $8 to find out. Little did I know, there was a $10 credit when I signed up for a Railo Linux account, so my first months appears to be free! If only the rest of my adventure could have been that easy...