If you are wondering why the design of my homepage looks familiar, the reason is there is a number of people using a similar concept.
Here is the list of pages I am aware of: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
If you see another one please let me know. This design is licensed under the Noncommercial-Share Alike Creative Commons License. The license (essentially) says that the design can be freely copied and modified for noncommercial purposes even without credits to the original author (me) (as long as modifications carry the same license).