Hello World. This is my first post for the new nojacko.com. I'm going to touch on a few of things: Who I Am, This Website, It's Reason for Being & The Blog.

Who I Am
I am James Jackson and this is my personal website. That's all I shall say in this post about myself. If you want to know more check out the about page.

This Website
This site will be a place for me to blog, show off my work, collect useful links, test new stuff I'm working on and other things I've not thought off yet. This site has actually been around a few years now. It's not been kept up to date. The main reason being is it was all static html and a bit of a pain to update. So about 8 months ago (August/September 2008) I started working on creating a CMS. I've been working on it on and off since and in that time so much has changed and at one point I even rewrote the lot. All the time has actually worked out really well! Because I've been taking my time I've been able to think through everything before starting to implement it. The CMS so much better for this, as any project should be if you plan it well. At the moment the CMS is not for sale, but after it's been proven to work and new features are added it might be avalible to buy...

..back to the point. The site is now running on the above mentioned CMS meaning it's really easy for me to edit and update. So with the new easy of updating and a promise to myself to keep the site update it's looking good.

Reason
The original reason for this site was to have my own personal site. Before, I had only had websites trying to make a little money of the interweb. This site was to really to be about me, bring together all my sites and also be a site that wouldn't disappear off the face of the Earth like some of my other sites have. The name? nojacko was a name I thought of for playing games online. Jacko is a way to common nickname, so I came up with something more unique. I think it came from a friend of mine who would say "Nooooo Jacko" if I did something stupid at school. I was a bit silly at school so it was said a lot  and the way he said it was always the same. So when I decided to think of a unique name it must have popped into my head. It wasn't being used by others and seemed alright to me... so I used it.

Blog
A quick note about this blog. The blog will be about anything and everything. Whatever I feel like really. Each post will be tagged and categorized, but until there are most posts I won't be listing the categories or tags. It'll look a bit plain with only 1 or 2 posts in each category/tag, and I haven't really finished the blogging system. You won't be able to comment on posts. I don't really think this is necessary for my site but if you do want to comment feel free to contact me.

Well that's it for my first post. Quite a bit longer than I originally thought it would be.