Contempora Corner
Contempora Corner started in 2004 as a very small personal project to research and document the history behind the Reynolds trombones that I play as a ‘weekend warrior’. Not finding much of permanent significance, I turned my collected notes into a couple of web pages, which quickly grew to include other Reynolds instruments. I’ve since added major sections on the company’s history and collected a small library of marketing materials, mostly from the 1950s and ’60s.
Until this update, the site was primarily coded in static HTML and CSS, initially managed by various HTML design programs, but the last few updates were handcoded. It was only natural to migrate the site to my new platform of choice, WordPress.
Recent Development Notes
One of the features of my latest project, Contempora Corner, was the creation of a custom page template that is used as an visual index page for a specific category of content. These are essentially landing pages with links to all of the respective child pages. I try to organize sites to not use these [...]
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About Me
My name is ElShaddai Edwards and while my first name literally means “God Almighty” in Hebrew, I consider myself to be “just a guy…” Born and raised in coastal Alaska, I now live in the Minneapolis metro with my wife and family.
I am an Information Architect during the day and a freelance website designer by moonlight. I have been building websites for the past five years, with a focus on using Wordpress as an engine for all sorts of functionality and content. I especially enjoy helping small businesses and church ministry programs find an effective means of communicating with their audiences.