The second website was redesigned with the original intent on being completely database driven and XHTML 1.0 Transitional Compliant. At the time I really knew nothing about convention, and even less about design, but I was learning how to do it on my own.

I realized that without some design help my site would never look good. So I looked into some of the more popular pieces of software at the time and found a really neat one called "Nifty Corners Cube". I used this software to make the edges of my div tags rounded, the site started to look very good. However, I realized that I needed some help managing the content of the site, and conceded to migrating over to a full-fledged CMS.