This will be my last blog entry. I have class in the morning. I just couldn't get to sleep after writing that rough draft.
I looked at the wayback machine for foolishgames.com tonight. Its interesting what my old sites looked like so many years ago.
http://web.archive.org/web/19990508064343/www.foolishgames.com/jewel.htmIts rather funny that I was making professional sites like usol.com (sadly still looks the same) at the same time as this. I don't think any of my work is online anymore other than archives or usol.com. Considering I made my first site in 1996, I've come a long way. Still I'm not in my prime anymore. I don't have the patience that I had in my youth. Like 28 is so old. (WARNING THAT SITE CRASHES FIREFOX on my pc) Even though there was a color clash, I just loved that site design. The splash images are not there, but the index still is. It was one of my last frames based sites. I designed that in 1998.. i think february or so. I was pretty depressed and you can tell by the use of blues. That was the first time I went really into blue for a site. It was also one of the first I did with 99% of my own graphics work. I even made the background in photoshop. It was just a few pixels.
I looked at this after reading
Laura's blog, a student in my eng 444 class. She was a bit down on her progress with site design. I remember spending hours trying to FTP up pages on AOL back in the day. That was dumbed down a bit and i still struggled. Using a modern FTP client like cuteftp pro or wsftp would have been a nightmare for me. As much as it became a chore later, I miss working on my Jewel website. The legal ramifications of running a site like that are just too much these days. The RIAA breathing down everyone's necks and now I'm married. Litigation would also hurt my wife. I don't think people consider the legal ramifications of running a website. All of the sites I run or host could be targeted potentially. The law has been shifting toward business and away from free speech for a long time on the web. Perhaps it only caught up with the web.
I liked the customweb.net design I did and I think the worst site was the Whaley Children's center site. I did one for an auction they held and a coworker later took credit for it. It wasn't bad for 2 hours notice. Probably my best professional work ever was kards.com.
usol.com's gaming site that i once did was the most artistic, but kards.com had the most functionality. I had that asp.net shopping cart tied in with UPS and some of the designs were good. I particularly liked the last one. I wish I could code like that these days. I remember that hack job I did fixing golfrac's site. Then there was the title companies site and that terrible insurance company.
award-1.com isn't my best design work but the customer loved it. Its what he wanted.
I find it amusing that I couldn't design the
cs.emich.edu site because of the unions. I still made it look better than all black text.
