When this website first hit the tubes in late ’05, it was only through the modern miracle of hypertext that the site even behaved like a functional piece of Internet. It was slapped together with Frontpage (Express, no less) and foolishly designed with no thought to future expansion, and any time I wanted to add a new section I had to copy-and-paste my new image-mapped header navigation onto every single static page on the wizzy-wigged website. Anyway, February 2007 rolled around, and I was like, enough is enough, website. It’s time for Kevan Gilbert Online to meet Two Point Oh.
I’ve channeled the power of WordPress, selected a theme called Beautiful Day, and implemented an easier, better, faster, stronger way to do the web. The new system will allow me to manage and update this website with far greater regularity than before. Now, all I have to do is find a way to turn my imaginary readership into a real-life cyberspatial audience…
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Kevan Gilbert is a life-size replica of a 5'8" tall human being, and comes with several interchangeable outfits and a realistic haircut. In the daytime hours, Kevan works as Project Coordinator of Creative Technologies at Vancouver’s Union Gospel Mission, overseeing an online strategy that raises over $700,000 a year. When he’s not spending time with his beautiful wife Kendra in their hometown of Burnaby, BC, Kevan is available to meet, chat and collaborate.
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