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What did your first website design look like?

Jermaine on December 29, 2018

Hello friends. As we approach the decline of 2018, I took a trip down memory lane to my first ever website design and thought I'd share it with you...
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Michiel Hendriks • Edited

I don't think I have a copy of mu first website around. I made it in the summer of 1998. Initially using Netscape's WYSIWYG HTML editor, but quickly thereafter writing HTML by hand. I do have a copy of what it turned out to be in 1999 before I created a completely new one. But, there's quite some Flash used for the navigation menus, so the site is actually quite broken now.

Does anybody know if there's a JS library which I could simply include on the site to make it's Flash content work (it's only Flash 4)? I know there's Shumway, but that requires some more work to restore my website.

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Jermaine

Woah those blues are striking!

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Phil Ashby

Internet Archive have mine from 2003 (it was pretty much the same in '97 when I started):

web.archive.org/web/20030220130818...

Anyone care to guess what revision control system I was using then?

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Jermaine

Cool. I like the minimal look. And nothing says old school like the good ol' table layout :)

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Lars Klopstra ⚑

My first site was pretty good looking! But the only problem was, it not being response and the container was being centered by margin-left: 400px πŸ˜‚πŸ€«

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Jermaine

Screenshots?

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Lars Klopstra ⚑

All gone :(

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Jermaine

Ahhh sorry to hear that.

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Boom da 🐐

Mines is from the MySpace days :(

web.archive.org/web/20070117143002...

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Jermaine

Cool, looks decent still.

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Boom da 🐐

you think so? i thought it was tooo uhhh 2007 ish lol actually loved that css.

buzznoc.com/indexx.php

is my recent theme

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jules manson

My first web site was gawd awfully embarrassing. How I could have tagged my own good name to it is beyond me now. Sorry (or happily) no screen shots.

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Isak Ahlberg • Edited

Don't really remember. I think it was a table filled with random GIFs and a gigantic square moving around in the background. All was centred with the

<'center> tag
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Ben Halpern

Sadly my first site hasn't been preserved by Internet Archive.

This is the oldest known screenshot:

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Jermaine • Edited

Ahhh 😭

Luckily I happened to have scraped my site a couple of years ago as now it's not online anymore.