Generations
5
A family farm story still in motion near Clyde, Kansas.
Concordia, Kansas - Clyde farm ground
Built with equal parts clean code, steady hands, and family soil.
I am Bob Pearson, a website developer and designer who also helps care for a fifth-generation family farm near Clyde, Kansas. This site is my personal headquarters: a place to keep private tools close, tell the right story, and stay grounded in the work that matters.
Janet brings a different kind of care to our world. She loves to read, looks after her pets, and volunteers as a dog transport driver. Together we value useful systems, honest work, and a life that feels modern without losing its roots.
Dark blue leads the palette, red stays in the signal lane, and your protected pages remain one click away.
Field signal
Personal site, practical workflow.
- Private pages come first, not last.
- Technical work and farm life get equal visual weight.
- Simple layout, current feel, zero clutter.
Daily access
The links you are most likely to open before anything else.
Finance
Citizens Entry
Enter balances, notes, and latest bank details.
Investments
Portfolio Entry
Update Bob and Janet balances from one familiar starting point.
Health
A1C Entry
Log a daily reading and keep rolling A1C numbers close at hand.
Health
Eye Visits
Open appointment history, notes, and outcomes right away.
Home base
Concordia
Where the web work, design work, and daily life come together.
Working style
Useful first
Clean interfaces, strong structure, and tools that help every day.
Visual language
Blue + red
Deep navy foundation with just enough signal red to guide the eye.
Private workspace
Everything important, organized by how you actually use it.
The homepage now works like a real command center. Daily tasks stay up front, reports are grouped together, dated summaries have their own row, and the extra admin links are still close when you need them.
Daily essentials
Your most frequent protected tools, kept visible without exposing private data.
Daily use first
Protected
Citizens Entry
Enter or update daily balances and notes.
Available after login.
Portfolio Entry
Update Bob and Janet portfolio balances.
Available after login.
A1C Entry
Save a reading and keep your estimated A1C trend current.
Available after login.
Eye Visits
Review appointments, notes, and outcomes in one place.
Available after login.
Vehicle tracking
Daily readings, fill-up capture, and trend reporting for the Aviator and Maverick.
Miles and fuel
Protected
Vehicle Tracker
Save odometer, fuel reading, gallons, and price per gallon in one place.
Available after login.
Vehicle Dashboard
Review daily mileage, monthly trends, and fuel spend charts for both vehicles.
Vehicle Import
Load the saved `vehicle.csv` and `miles.csv` history into the database table.
Dashboards and reports
The read-only views and trend pages that help you see the whole picture.
Reports
Charts
Dated portfolio views
The archived ChatGPT summaries remain easy to reach from the homepage.
April 4, 2026
Imports, uploads, and maintenance
Less frequent tools are still close, just grouped more cleanly.
Admin tools
Craft and ground
A personal site that finally looks like both halves of your life.
The redesign is not pretending the technical side and the agricultural side are separate identities. They feed each other. Good web design needs structure, patience, and maintenance. Farming does too.
Website developer and designer
You build things that people actually use. That means clear navigation, durable page structure, readable content, and interfaces that feel current without becoming flashy for no reason.
Fifth-generation farm roots
The Clyde farm gives the site its tone and backbone. The visual system leans on field light, machinery, grain colors, and a long-view sense of stewardship.
Systems that earn their place
Private dashboards, reports, uploads, and reference links are treated like real working tools. Nothing is buried just to look clean. It stays useful first and polished second.
The result is simpler to use, stronger visually, and more honest about who you are: a Kansas designer-developer with farm responsibilities, daily private workflows, and no interest in a generic personal homepage.
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Home life
The site also leaves room for the people behind the tools.
A personal website should feel personal. This version makes room for Janet, the home base in Concordia, and the values that tie the whole place together.
Janet
Janet loves to read, takes care of her pets, and volunteers as a dog transport person. That care and steadiness belong in the story here just as much as code or crop ground.
Concordia to Clyde
Concordia is the day-to-day home base. Clyde keeps the family farm close to the center of everything. The redesign reflects both places instead of choosing only one voice.
Useful, calm, and current
The page stays straightforward enough for daily use, but the typography, layout, and motion give it a sharper technical edge that feels built on purpose rather than assembled from a template.
Resources and outside links
Public links still matter, but they no longer compete with the work.
These are still part of your everyday orbit. They are simply grouped in a cleaner public-facing section instead of taking over the homepage structure.
Farm updates
Farmer Talk Blog
Notes, observations, and stories from the farm.
Learning
CS50 Python
Your learning page stays easy to reach from the main site.
Forecast
Weather
Quick access to forecasts and radar before a workday starts.
Markets
Commodity Prices
External pricing and market reference without extra clicks.