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Today I've put my new website kevinrutherford.co.uk live. This will be my new company site, replacing the older one which I felt had become quite jaded. I hope the layout works in your browser (if not, sling me an email).

The new site is a departure for me, as it is an experiment with a 1-page website: everything is on just the one page! The experiment has had two benefits so far, during the site's creation. First, maintenance of just that one single page of HTML is vastly easier than trying to maintain a whole raft of interconnected pages. Keeping the old site updated as I fiddled with styles etc and keeping the content of each from repeating was a nightmare. And in the end I felt the result hadn't been worth the effort.

And secondly, much more importantly, it has forced me to focus on the few things I really really need to say. Trying to get the message onto a single page means I've had to reduce the content to a bare minimum, instead of having the freedom to fill numerous pages with reams of dense prose. You'll have noticed that I have a tendency to waffle, and to drag on and on with a high buzzword count. But that just isn't possible on a 1-page website, which means I've had to smarten up my verbal act somewhat. A huge amount of the old crud has gone (who needs to know that I used to design encryption algorithms?), but I fear I've still fallen short on this goal. I plan to keep honing the page during the coming weeks until there's nothing more I can (bear to) remove.

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery