Registering thechexican.com is something that I’ve been wanting to do for years now. If memory serves me correctly, I did do it before in the past few years. However, without a webhost, it was pretty much a moot point. I talked myself out of having it direct to my WordPress.com hosted blog or Tumblr because I knew that I would ultimately want my domain to point to my own personal website. At the start of the new year, I started making resolutions for myself; one of these resolutions was to start actively following through on all of the mental to-dos that I think of and plan out, but never execute. So I gave myself a mental kick in the ass, and told myself to register the domain and contract hosting service for it.

Unfortunately for me and this site, I got sick almost immediately after. Throughout the past couple of weeks, I’ve found myself thinking of so many different things I wanted to start writing about. With physical illness in play, my timeline has found itself set back some. Now that I’m getting over my bout with the flu, I’m firing up my writing engine and finally getting around to introducing thechexican.com to the web!

What This Site Is

Throughout my life, I’ve always had a fascination with technology. In following the evolution of the internet since its start in the old dial-up days, I’ve always been aware at how powerful and essential it has become in this modern world we live in. Being such a tech enthusiast, I’ve always wanted to leverage that power to create an online identity that can actively supplement my real life and professional aspirations. In the years past, I experimented with this idea using many popular web services: Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, the list goes on. While I’ve learned a lot through the use of these various tools, they never really felt “right”. The one thing that I’ve always wanted but always found myself unable to afford is the complete control afforded by a self-hosted WordPress installation.

So that’s what I plan to do with this site. I want to maintain an active blog that covers my interests. I want to build my brand and create quality content on this site. I want to reacquaint myself with design and development, and use this site to grow my coding and design talents. There’s really so much I have invested here that it’d be impossible to write down entirely. My motivation for doing this is mostly personal; I see this site as a hybrid between a professional journal and a portfolio. Yet, even though I do my writing for personal reasons, I do hope that the things that find their way up here do end up being at least helpful, if not inspirational, to anyone who manages to stumble across it.

While I plan to keep using the aforementioned services, this is where I want to focus my efforts. Right now, I’m in a huge transitional period in life. I’m truly dedicating myself to bringing the person I want to be into reality. In a sense, it very much feels like becoming an entirely new person. So moving forward, I’m treating this as a fresh start. I don’t really have any concrete plans for all of my old existing content – maybe after I get things going and steady with the site, I’ll import my old blog posts and archive them here. For right now, I want to dedicate my focus to the future, not my past.

So, here I go – let’s see what I can do.