About vagabumming

Welcome to vagabumming.com and thanks for visiting.

About Me:

My name is Will, and this is my site.  I caught the travel bug early in life and have embraced world travel as a lifestyle.  I have visited all 7 continents and have lived and worked all around the world.  Through my work and hobby experiences I have managed to develop a very robust skill set that has served me well.  Here are some random & hopefully interesting facts about me:

• in 1986 I graduated from the Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Clown College (then in Venice, FL)
• in 1988 I joined the U.S. Army and worked as a mechanic in the U.S. and Asia.
• I am a veteran of Desert Shield/Desert Storm.
• I once managed the world’s largest fleet of locomotives in the world’s largest train yard.
• I have spent a winter at the South Pole (as of 2011 only 1327 people have done that source: SouthPoleStation.com)

My resume as a mechanic is quite impressive.  And since I do love adventure, if you’re looking for a mechanic for your next expedition you should contact me.

 

About This Site:

This site runs on the wordpress platform which is a free and open software platform that has thousands of developers from around the world.  WordPress is powerful software and great for website development due to its ease of use, extensibility and 3rd party plugins that can make it do just about anything.

I have customized this site to my liking and it serves as a living resume and testament to my website development skills.  Behind the scenes there are many things happening that create a seamless user experience while on this site.  The centerpiece of this website is the clickable world map on the front page.  This feature was hand coded by me and uses the Raphael javascript library as its core.  You’ll notice that the world map is NOT an image.  It’s not done with flash.  It is an SVG (scalable vector graphic) that is drawn dynamically – view the page source – there’s NO image, yet, it’s there.  The clickable world map on the front page is also a demonstration of my PHP and CSS skills as well as skills in the jQuery javascript library and all of its extensions.

I am for hire as a website developer or custom plugin developer.  If you’d like to put my skills to work on your website, hire me.

 

Have a great day, enjoy your visit!