bumplum (bum-plum, not bump-lum) serves as a portal for whatever web thing I, Raisy, decide I want to share with the world. In addition to the snazzy little blog bumplum houses, it is also home to several of my other websites.

This place was conceived as a result of extreme boredom sometime during the waning weeks of 2007, though it wasn’t until June of 2009 that it finally went online. The third in a line of collectives I’ve created in the 7+ years I’ve been webdesigning, my aim is to keep bumplum simple and personal. It’s mine and my own, so I will swat your hands away should they attempt to harm it.

Behind the Name

It was my freshman year of high school, and my biology teacher was going over some of the elements of the periodic table. We came to the element lead and its symbol Pb. Somebody asked how on earth Pb could mean lead, and Mr. Perkins (at least, I think that was his name…) went on to explain that Pb was short for plumbum, the Latin word for lead. We laughed and then moved on with the science lesson. But the word stuck with me. I started using Plumbum as a username on various message board communities, and when time came to throw a name around for this little domain, I decided to resurrect its use. Switched it around and voila!

Layouts

Title: Homecoming
Released: October 13, 2009
Tools used: Photoshop, Notepad
Created using: 1280×800 resolutions, Mozilla Firefox
Personal comments: I wanted something desperately to do with Chicago, and I finally picked a random picture of the skyline that I had taken during the summer of 2009, and Photoshopped the hell out of it. The lyrics in the footer come from various Jay-Z, Kanye, and Lupe songs. The result is what you currently see right now.

Title: Bum as a Plum
Released: June 22, 2009
Tools used: stock.xchng, PSP 7, Photoshop, Notepad
Created using: 1024×768 resolutions, Mozilla Firefox
Personal comments: This was a simple design I had created years back, when I was toying around with the idea of buying a domain. I liked it for its simplicity, and it was a style I hadn’t really touched upon before. I thought the purple and red plum theme would serve best for the domain’s initial launch.

All my designs are pretty much optimized for Mozilla Firefox, and if you’re one of those lames who still uses Internet Explorer, they’re almost-optimized for that too. Since I regularly use two computers to maintain my websites (the Dell PC sitting at home, and the laptop I have here with me at school), my designs tend to fluctuate between 1024×768 and 1280×800 resolutions.

And a special thanks goes out to this tutorial.

Information

This domain was registered on June 22, 2009 at Namecheap and is currently hosted with E-Starr. The website itself is maintained through WordPress, Notepad, and FireFTP.

If you feel that you are due credit for any part of this site that was not previously given, please feel free to contact me.