Old WebPages

I thought I would share some of my old websites that I’ve done over the years – some quite wild to see now (how much has changed!).  I noticed my old e-mail address was “c593445@showme.misssouri.edu” – can you guess where I went to school.  That was back in the day of computer labs and being wowed by dial-up connection to the school…

This was probably the second website I worked on – for a christian campus organization.   A roommate of mine I think made the cool image at the top.  Again the styling and organization is amazing – the small thumbnails made the difference.  What I find interesting is that I have a links to a “plain text” vs. a “netscape” version – anyone remember Netscape?

This was another cheesy website I created after I got married.  I used some goofy them based around trees (maybe that was the forestry major coming out in me) or branches.  I think I even had this goofy counter on the website that would increment each time someone would visit the page.

This was a website I did for a class when I was getting my Master’s Degree (surprise -it has a train theme).  It’s still quite old school – but I did play around with a lot of Javascript.  This was one of the sites where I used the rollover images – where you replace the image when the user puts the mouse over the menu image.  This was an interesting class – as they actually encouraged me to find resources on the web – a coding class where you were encouraged not to write your own code…

This was the first iteration of my “andrewluvtrains.com” website – I used a expanding javascript menu to organize the content and a template from someone else.  I did do a lot more organization of this site – using good old tables to layout the pages.  It looks like I also put a verse of the day on the site – I think I got that flash from biblegateway.org.

This was the next version of my website – where I used even another menu and design (one that I think worked better).  I also more closely integrated the photo gallery into my site – making it share the menu and template of the rest of the site.  If you have a lot of photos for your site I would recommend using a photo gallery – instead of trying to do it manually.  A gallery like Gallery2 can also help you protect your photos – by putting them in a non-accessible location and using techniques such as watermarks.

This was my last version of my website.  This image doesn’t show everything – as I had a lot of dynamic content.  I went a little overboard and made both the menu and the thumbnails generated dynamically by PHP code based on the folder structure.  I had to make sure there was a page with the same name as the folder for it to work – but it was pretty neat.  From a design perspective I also tried to make sure there was an image on each page that represented the contents of the page – to create a better visual experience.