My Name Is Tommy

My Name Is Tommy is a fun little “one page” site I made to serve the following bulleted purposes:

Make use of a seemingly valuable domain name I rashly purchased
Allow me a linking portal to boss types or potential clients who could be thrown off by this site’s self-deprecating, hopefully ironic name
Pay homage to my interest in the parallax scrolling of old school platform games
Show off my sweet hill drawing skillz

Features

Four background layers, drawn with a pen in a sketchbook and colored/drop-shadowed in Photoshop:
- Front row hills
- Middle row hills
- Back row hills
- Sky and sun which ease into solid colors (try zooming way out in your browser)
Parallax scrolling done with jQuery animated background positions on those layers
The hills are semi-transparent PNG8s, which, in case you didn’t know, support alpha transparency just like PNG24 but at a fraction of the filesize (You’ll need Fireworks…)
Gracefully degrading, works without JavaScript
#hash anchor support, generated URLs work just mostly as you’d expect
PHP contact form with math captcha and a snazzy Google Voice widget
Progressive Rockwell / Century Gothic font stack
Fun opacity tricks
Matching favicon
A picture of me that’s, like, 5 years old but I’m pretty sure looks current but have been told does not