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ES.com version history

Take a step back into history as we explore my various website designs. I'm proud of pretty much everything post-2005.
For the record, the Aerosmith Tribute is, to me, a sort of v1.5.

Version 1
While I don't have the original index.html laying around anywhere, here is an approximation of what my very first page on the internet looked like.
First published October, 1996.

Version 2
After I launched the Aerosmith Tribute, I hungered for other projects. Unfortunately, GeoCities at the time had a measly 2MB hosting limit. So, I signed up for multiple 'Cities accounts, and tied them all together with this front gate.
First published December, 1997. This snapshot saved April 20, 1998.

Version 3
After the horrific Columbine shootings, I somehow came up with the idea that people might care about what I thought or was interested in. What a moron I was... and how little has changed about me.
First published April, 1999. This snapshot saved June 20, 2000.

Version 4
This is actually not all that different from version 3. Just a lot more junk. Super-fun bonus fact: apparently this is the first time I name-dropped Mandy Moore somewhere on the site.
First published April, 1999. This snapshot saved March 25, 2001.

Version 5
Things start to come around a little bit in this version. Pluses include primitive tables use. Minuses are mainly the use of FrontPage and my ugly mug plastered above the fold.
First published late 2001. This snapshot saved March 28, 2002.

Version 6
This begins a period in my web career that, for some reason, existed around frames. But hey, this is where the slogans start!
First published mid 2003. This snapshot saved September 14, 2004.

Version 7
I really did like this design a whole lot. It also represented the first time I had coded a page entirely by hand since high school. I eventually abandoned it, as the frame-based layout made SEO impossible.
First published November, 2004. This snapshot saved March 30, 2005..

Version 8
This layout worked very well as well. I only used two (small) GIFs in the design of this page; otherwise it's all tables and text, and page loading was incredibly fast. I just got bored with it.
First published October, 2005. This snapshot saved July 15, 2006.

Version 9
I worked very hard on this layout (which the Pioneer Press' Julio Ojeda-Zapata called "very sharp") and I think it is probably the finest thing I have done on the web. Very graphics intensive, but the payoff made all the work worth it. Blogger's cessation of FTP support meant that I had to move away from it.
First published September, 2007. This snapshot saved September 12, 2009.