Blast from the Past
27/10/06 02:12 PM
I was clearing through some ancient files on my computer yesterday, and stumbled across the first website I ever built! I give you ‘Stu Illustration Ink.’! See what I did there; it’s like ‘Inc.’, right, but…
It was 1998 and I needed a kind of online portfolio but couldn’t afford to get one professionally made. I mean come on, there’s no way this bubble will burst, web design is definitely the career for me. You can charge what you like!
Anyway I’ve put it online again here just to reminisce and, well, take the piss. Although, check me out: no tables! Wow I’m so forward thinking. Okay it was before I learned how to build sites with tables, ha ha. All that wasted time learning trs, tds and colspans… sigh… good times. AND it even has an external stylesheet! So what if it’s just for links, it still counts! Just ignore any other cheesy stuff, I actually think it’s not bad… forgetting the DHTML stuff of course. And the frames. Ahem.
So thanks must go to my big bro Chris who helped me with the basics from my ‘HTML 4.0 for Dummies’ book until I had the ‘D’Oh!’ moment and it all clicked. “I can program!” Of course I’m yet to make my first million but when I do I’ll, erm, draw him a picture.
Anyone else got any crappy old sites to show?
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On Saturday October 28, 2006,
Chris said:
Tsssssss.
On Sunday October 29, 2006,
Jay said:
I’ve still got Stu Illustration Ink on MY computer cause I didn’t know if you took it with you. And I’ve still got Ultimate Bond… I wonder if Chris still has Stirling Lines? That HTML4 for Dummies book came in handy, didn’t it…?
On Sunday October 29, 2006,
Steve Tucker said:
For your first website that’s not at all bad, Stu. It could have been worse anyway – you could have used a tiled flashing gif as your background image…
On Monday October 30, 2006,
Stu said:
For those who don’t know, Chris and Jay are my brothers. We literally rotated session by session on the computer when I bought my HTML book. Because websites were so important as the worldwide hyperweb was gonna be HUGE! Ha ha…
@Steve – Cheers; I think it’s quite funny that my first ever site was actually better than many I made just after. Purely because I couldn’t afford Dreamweaver et al at the time. Curse WYSIWYGs…
On Friday November 3, 2006,
Steve Ward said:
Don’t ever diss HTML For dummies. YOU lent me that very same book to do a website for that job I had (remember). You even told me how “Cool” DHTML was for doing fancy stuff.
On Monday November 6, 2006,
pingping said:
haha~~
Congrantulation to you,Though I can’t understand all of the words in your web !
I am a chinese girl!