Lately I have been furiously cleaning out my desk, my phone, my room (sort of) and tonight I started on my PC in preparation of backing-up so that I can format this cluttered POS.
In doing so, I came across a screenshot of one of my old web layouts:
”Funkii Fresh”, circa 2003
Wow. What a blast from the past! I remember being so impressed with myself after putting up this layout. I managed to get a little Flash animation happening where the icons for the site navigation “lit up” and appeared in time to Wicked Beat Sound System’s “I Want to” (from about 0:14, for those seeking further detail). Sadly, a screenshot of this is all that remains… I did however, manage to find saved copies of other less impressive layouts…
“y o i n k s !”, circa 2002
A side scrolling Paul Frank inspired layout when websites were best viewed in 1024×768, lol!
(the actual site content after scrolling sideways from the splash screen)
I brought out the big guns for this one and used an iFrame, sliced images and layers! Phwoar!
“inhale« eXhale»”, circa 2002
When there was no such thing as “commenting” on blog posts, there were guestbooks and lots of trance music. This actually lined up properly, I remember spending ages getting it right (I did a bodgy print screen into MS Paint to get the screen shot).
Man, I used to love building websites! From creating the images in Photoshop to putting the pages together in DreamWeaver. Then there was fucking around with the code for stylesheets and GreyMatter (before WordPress!) before setting up CuteFTP. I would stay up intothe early hours of the morning. I can’t say I remember being as dedicated to anything since 2003!
I had intention to start designing my own layouts again when Twig started hosting me but it’s just so easy to do a quick and reasonable job with WordPress now…
