The Story Behind Fuzzy Thoughts

A few months before my freshman year at college started, I decided that after just playing aound in Frontpage for awhile, I was actually going to make a website and publish it. So I spent a few days creating the first version. But this site didn’t have a name; it was just rpmurphy.com - the personal website of Ryan Murphy.

The site served its purpose for the first six months or so…which was just to exist. Then around the time the spring semester started, I was sick of the design - I wanted something that was a little more unique and handmade. So I took the time to surf around, look for parts of sites that I liked for ideas. I finally found one, and I really liked it. So I took some basic parts from it, customized them, and coded the site by hand. Version 2 validated correctly, and the code was clean and easy to understand, and worked pretty much the same in all browsers I tried it in.

Around April/May of 2006, I found a plugin for WordPress that the absence of had kept me from moving my blog at LiveJournal to my own domain, and so I installed WordPress as a subdomain, transfered all the posts from LJ to here by hand (of course, I now know that there is an export/import that I could have used), and I only go to LJ now to check on friends’ blogs.

rpmurphy.com version 2 lasted until late January 2007. I then realized that the main pages of my site hadn’t been changed in a while due to me not wanting to have to make the changes, save, and then upload to the server. So I thought about what I could do to make this even easier. I had been using WordPress for 7 months by this time, and since WordPress can make static pages (such as this one), I felt that I could use it as the website itself, almost like a Content Management System.

With the move to WordPress powering the whole site, I also brought the name of my hosted blog and am using it as the name of the site, Fuzzy Thoughts. Why did I name my blog, and ultimatly this site Fuzzy Thoughts? Don’t worry, there’s a good meaning behind it. Well, actually two meanings: the first being that one of my many nicknames is Fuzzy, and these are my thoughts; the second being that sometimes my thoughts don’t even make sense to myself, so they are “fuzzy”.