The site kept developing as I added pages for successive semesters at the IDS and as I studied abroad in Madrid. In late January 2011 I started the blog, the layout for which was inspired by The Big Picture and former IDS photographer James Brosher. That February I bought space at GoDaddy.com and moved my pages from mypage.iu.edu/~alefarri to www.alex-farris.com. (The "welcome" page still stands at mypage, if only as a placeholder.)
I've endeavored to code everything here on my own, down to building a script to automatically update the RSS feed. In March 2012 I learned how to handle a MySQL server and PHP loops, so now I have a fully self-coded blog with dynamically-updating pages and query-powered CMS files. In January 2013 I learned enough JavaScript and jQuery to build my own plug-in photo galleries, something I've wanted to do since the start of the blog. I'm still learning all I can, and I concede the blog comments to HTML Comment Box and the front page's photo loop to CrossSlide.
And, of course, all the photos here are my own, unless explicitly stated.