What if you woke up one morning and you decided that you wanted to embrace the offerings of an open web? What if you thought to yourself, "With all the free and open source access to knowledge, services and even applications out there, maybe I don't need to purchase software anymore. Maybe I don't need Dreamweaver to make my web site, or Photoshop to edit my images, or Illustrator to create vector graphics. Maybe I don't even need to use Flash any longer, whether it's for posting video to the web, or creating complex interactions and animations using Actionscript 3. What if a developing open web standard and a burgeoning, creative, sharing community begin to create alternative, more open source, opportunities for doing all these things and at a cost that is accessable to most?

So this is my "what if?". From today on I will attempt to develop this site using mostly open source applications and information from an open community of individuals and organisations that readily share what they have, and know, on the web. And how might that look? Well today it looks like this; just some text placed in a "div id" tag on an HTML page that has been optimized for HTML5 using "HTML5 boilerplate" which is, according to the authors Paul Irish and Divya Manian, "the professional badass's base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site". Thank's Paul and Divya for this first step.