Thursday, December 04, 2008

Finally I am in the 21st century!

In 1996 there was Netscape and Netscape Composer.  In 1996 I came to the Internet and created my very first web site - an amateur affair, prettily styled (yeah, right!) with puffy white clouds on a blue sky background, and bold black text.  


Artistically I draped pictures and stuff all over it.  I wrote about me and my dogs and my family.

And there it remained until the day before yesterday, updated a little, but unloved and stuck in a time warp.  It was a perfect snapshot of all that is appalling with websites of the nineties!  It wasn't so much patina as rust!

Now I am no designer!  If you look at the home page you will see that.  And I've really no idea what the home page is for on a site like that anyway, but the layout is simple and so is the navigation.  As a giggle I even put adverts on it. That's more for fun than anything else!  I really can't imagine any of the four visitors per day clicking an advert!

I took the opportunity to optimise the page file names for search engines, though I do pretty well if you look for Tim Trent anyway.  But I want to find some old, old friends, so I've decided I need to be better optimised in order that we can find them, or rather anyone looking for them finds me.

I really do have to do something with that home page, though.

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