Hello, my name is James Borden and I am a recent graduate of Drexel University. I made my initial site as a project for one of my classes, but I recently found that I didn't like it. Therefore, the site you are seeing now is an updated version, with 80% less popups in my portfolio!

To get the most out of my site, you MUST enable Javascript so that my dynamic portfolio can function properly. I don't have a license for flash (expensive) so I tried to make similar functionality through DHTML.

As you can see, my logo is a distorted yin-yang with two chinese characters in it. Those two symbols happen to be the Japanese name that I chose for myself. The first character is 慈 (If you just see a box, enable asian fonts...google will tell you how). This character is pronounced "Ji" (The J is kind of a cross between J and Sh [Zh] and the i is "ee") and it means "mercy." The second character is 武 and is usually pronounced "bu (boo)", but in my case it is "mu (moo)." This character means "warrior." If you put the two pronunciations together (Jimu) then you have the Japanese equivalent of my nickname (Jim). Also, they have somewhat opposite spectrum meanings (mercy and war) so I thought they went well together in a yin-yang.