Sandvox Website Profile: “Odds and Ends”

Personal stuff, things I have seen and done. I enjoy traveling, taking pictures and movies. Spend countless of hours editing when I get back home. So I like to have a place to collect and show the best of them. With all the online services to upload, I need a place to collect them all.

I tinker with many different things and I try to document some of that on my page too. I make a point of not mixing my real work with my personal stuff so I keep work related things out.

I would like to host my videos myself too, so I don't have to depend on YouTube. It seems like the time is getting closer where that is possible, due to standardizations in supported video in browsers and the increase of bandwidth.

I have absolutely no idea if it is of interest to anyone what so ever. :) I create the things on my site because I am having fun doing it. Google analytics describes my visitors as "technophiles", which might not be all wrong since I like to describe how I solve different technical stuff from pinball repair to my heating system, generating time-lapse movies or how I monitor my solar power installation. Although the most conversations I have with people are those who want to buy my domain. But I am not interested in selling.

Nope, sorry no killer stories yet. I have had a few asking me how I created the website and they liked how it looked. So I directed them to the Sandvox site.

I really wanted a modern design that you see right now that fills the entire width of the page. While that is not currently possible with the available templates, this one comes close. I like the pictures, movies and text to be the focus of the site and the design should just support it, not take over.

For my welcome page, I have been trying to use HTML code for YouTube so that I could choose the parameters myself and get it to stream in HD as default. Would be sweet if some YouTube parameters could be check boxes in the Inspector.