Deep thoughts by one Mark Otto.
Web Platform Designer at Twitter. Creator of Bootstrap. Broheim.
About
Mark Otto is a designer living and working in San Francisco. Originally from Wisconsin, he freelanced his way through high school and college before moving to California to work at an awesome design firm, ZURB, in 2007. There he designed and developed dozens of projects with clients large and small, including Photobucket, Britney Spears, SafetyWeb, and Zazzle. In early 2010, after a two-and-a-half year stint at ZURB, he left to become a product designer at Twitter.
Since joining Twitter, Otto has worked on numerous projects including the Promoted Products suite, Twitter.com, the Twitter Help Center, some internal tools, and most recently the popular open-source front-end toolkit Bootstrap.
About the site
MDO.com has been my online home for many years, manifesting as various blogs and portfolios until landing on the current version, a simple blog. Today it is an outlet for my design- and development-related ramblings.
Some fun facts about the site include:
- Designed and coded on a Mac in California
- Coded with Sublime Text 2
- Built on WordPress, my favorite open-source blogging platform
- Hosted on Media Temple
- Uses a custom theme that’s been evolving since mid-2010
- Font-face, Open Sans, is served via Google Web Fonts
- Uses LESS for compiling the CSS
- The tagline pays homage to the Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy skits on SNL
For comments or questions, feel free to ask me on Twitter or shoot me an email at markdotto at gmail dot com.