Do you remember the first time you built a web page? One of the first web pages I ever built was a photo site of some of the photos I had taken of friends in the Peace Corps. I was working as the webmaster at an ISP, and as such had access to the web server, so along with my fellow web developers, I posted a personal site up there. This was back in 1995.
I remember at the time being very excited by the ability to add images that most browsers could see. Most web browsers prior to then were text only, and so images were huge. Our company web browser (NetCruiser) had just added features like font colors as well, so I went nuts with that. Plus, I'd learned of this nifty trick to get paragraphs to indent (pre-CSS, of course) called the “Single Pixel GIF Trick” by David Siegel. While I would never use it now, back then, it was cutting-edge design.
The site is long gone, which is probably good, as I had some cringe-worthy elements like:
- rainbow lines
- spinning images
- and I probably had an under construction icon on it somewhere as well
While the HTML for the page is long gone, I still have some of the photos of Pam, Charles, Kenley and others. Maybe I'll create another Peace Corps page someday.
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My First Time originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 at 09:01:10.
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