About Foliosus
About the author
Brent Miller is a new web designer, recently converted from academia where he was pursuing a career as a botanist and evolutionary ecologist. The job market was just no good, so he switched his hobby for his profession, and is now a botanizing web designer instead of a web designing botanist. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his fantastic and funny wife Sally.
About the site
Right now, Foliosus is a place to follow Brent’s journey from being a reasonably good graduate student to being a (hopefully) reasonably good web designer, focussing on the new Web 2.0 technologies such as XHTML, CSS, Ajax, Rails, etc. Along the way he’ll also talk about cool things in the plant world, and his love of cooking and good food. And sometimes other things, too.
The name
Where does “Foliosus” come from? It’s Latin for leafy, and is sometimes used in species names, such as with Ceanothus foliosus, the wavy-leaved mountain lilac, a plant native to central California.
The banner
Some people have asked what the photo in the banner is. In the “Banksia” layout, it’s a macro shot of Banksia coccinea, the royal Banksia, which Brent shot in the Stirling Ranges of southwestern Australia. In the “Aeonium” layout, it’s a close-up overhead of a species of Aeonium, which Brent shot in the greenhouses of UC Santa Barbara.
Technical
On a more technical level, the site was entirely designed by Brent, and is powered by WordPress 2.0. It is hosted by Dreamhost, which I like very much and highly recommend to anyone.
Design work
If you have an RFP or would like to contact Brent about potential web design work, please send an e-mail.
Claytonia perfoliata (Portulacaceae); Miner's lettuce
