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Lost images
As I've cleared out the old junk on my hard drives, I've often stubbled upon strange old files that I like
to share here. Most of them are directly from old webpage prototypes, but some are just crazy things I've
made. This is my old stuff and doesn't reflect my current tastes at all.
This picture was the entry page image for my first webpage back in July 1998. Hosted on Geocities, it was
innately poor, with no content and horrible, horrible images.
The first of the two images for the first version of my
dorm.org site. Though it basically was a terrible title image, it was better than the crazy hodgepodge one
after it.
Originally, the second version of this website was going
to be exactly the same as the ones before it, with a new title and color scheme. An idea dawned on me: that
I should redesign the interface to make it less linear. This image was evidently resized and put in the top
right corner.
I wasn't really sure what this was, but my guess is that it was an attempt to make a logo that wasn't just
made up of fancy (or not so fancy) text. I didn't have Illustrator or anything like that, so I made many
copies, each twice as large as the last, to eliminate the problems of over-enlarging a small image.
In January 1999 I started a radically different interface. The graphics were terrible, and it didn't work
in Netscape at all. In retrospect, the colors were awful too. I deleted this entire page a long time ago
but later retrieved a screenshot I sent to Andy and cropped this out.
In October 2002, I made an image that would be the basis for a new website layout. I planned on using ASP,
but quickly realized that dorm.org was a linux-based server and was unable
to execute server-side VBScript. In August 2003, after working on the Washington
Website for a few months, I learned enough PHP to do a lot more than I knew how to do in VBScript and
began uploading the new and improved site. I got a lot of bad feedback with these colors, so I read a little
about building a color scheme and created the color set you see today. Since I was using a very flexible page
design, the whole thing was up within 25 minutes of deciding on the colors.
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