Have you got your first designed site, graphic, logo???

matauri · #1 (**permalink**) 11-24-2003, 08:55 PM

I've notice recently that we have had an influx of fresh youth gnawing at the bit to be web designers. Unfortunately sometimes we have to give them bad reviews to steer them on the right path, but you know what its like to be young...everything jsut has to happen 'now' :-)

So... Because we have such talented people in here, I thought we could show by way of example.

How many of you have the first website,graphic or logo that you ever did??? No polishing them up...they have to be as they were when you first put it up & thought you had done a good job :-)

So fess up pros.....lets see those skeletons !! ;-)

(I will have to dig thru some cd's for mine)

Cindy

wenwilder · #2 (**permalink**) 11-24-2003, 10:09 PM

A trudge down memory lane. I've thankfully watched as every website that I first did, minus my personal sites, be made over to appear normal. I'm not sure what normal is, but it definately wasn't what I first created.

I did, however, save the banners from the sites I made and some of the logo's (It's scary!!!). I posted them in a temp file on my site so I can quickly delete them. :)

Here's my walk down memory lane: http://www.thinkingcritically.net/temp/

Greyhawk · #3 (**permalink**) 11-24-2003, 11:10 PM

Well lets see the first logo I ever did was for the University of Victoria Ballroom Dance club. They no longer use it because I have never been paid for it. This happened to me a cuople of times so now I shy away from logos. I will try to post my first web site soon.

Greyhawk

wenwilder · #4 (**permalink**) 11-24-2003, 11:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Greyhawk

I will try to post my first web site soon.

Greyhawk

No Procrastinating on this one Greyhawk. :)

Greyhawk · #5 (**permalink**) 11-25-2003, 02:49 AM

Ok Ok Ok I will do it tomorrow. When ever that gets here. That should be Today for Cindy, and Yesterday for you Wen.

Greyhawk

minstrel · #6 (**permalink**) 11-25-2003, 02:54 AM

Not a chance! :-)

Fortunately, that was even before the wayback machine...

mikmik · #7 (**permalink**) 11-25-2003, 04:24 AM

April 23,2002 - my first computer (didn't know how to hook up)

Nov22 - Let's see how to make a web page!

Java Applet Warning!
Nov 26 = http://factor1.net/olde/index1.html (Beware background midi (actually I know how to lower the volume now!)

Dec 04, 2002 (Day 11) = http://factor1.net/olde/
I froze my computer trying to drag'n'drop the URLs to my desktop!

1 year later, no more of a design eye, but much better on the navigation!

carju1 · #8 (**permalink**) 11-25-2003, 07:30 AM

Sorry folks can't help here as my first proper public site was way back in '94 for an ISP and has long long gone - as has the company. Also as 95% of all my work in intranet not inter I can't even let you see most of my recent stuff :(

Julian

Greyhawk · #9 (**permalink**) 11-25-2003, 10:20 AM

Wow Mik where did you get that 80's hair band music?

Greyhawk

esiegel · #10 (**permalink**) 11-25-2003, 11:06 AM

I'll post this one for my 15 year old son.
It is a site he is supposed to be working on for our temple... his concept was picked over others submitted by "professional" web designers. He got this far and has kind of just left it sit. Maybe some feedback will inspire him.

http://mysite.verizon.net/vze327qg/TBE.htm

minstrel · #11 (**permalink**) 11-25-2003, 11:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by carju1

I can't even let you see most of my recent stuff :(

Translation: I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.

(who's signed up for the next hat raid so far?)

kenzie · #12 (**permalink**) 11-25-2003, 11:49 AM

for me it was my Rugby club in college at the university of houston.
Sadly no one has rebuilt their site or even worked on it for a while now.
I turned the keys over to a fellow member when I left.

This is the first site I ever built for someone else:
www.uh.edu/~rfc

davebarnes · #13 (**permalink**) 11-25-2003, 11:51 AM

I did not design the EMASS logo, that had been created in approximately 1990.

This was the first website for the company (unless you count the 2 years of the animated "under construction" gif that preceded this website).

http://www.marketingtactics.com/Engl...S_Homepage.jpg

,dave

doubleplus · #14 (**permalink**) 11-25-2003, 12:14 PM

Ooooh. First design paid for - 1994. A logo -

This little black and white thing got me a job as a marketing director and lead me on the path I'm on today! Hopefully I'm better now (portfolio at www.doubleplus.com).

My first paid site is archived on some CD somewhere in my stacks. It was www.abchealth.com. It was okay for 1995, but the client decided his teenage son could do a better job. He put an "under construction" message up and never did a thing. Some squatter has the domain now. :(

SyrenSong · #15 (**permalink**) 11-25-2003, 12:20 PM

It's probably for the best, but The WayBack Machine doesn't even have my first site. I'll be honest and say it was positively atrocious, though.

Lots of graphics I took from other websites (before I realized that was stealing). Waaaay too many really huge graphics and too many of 'em on too many pages. (Guess that's why it's such a pet peeve of mine now. lol!) Some pages (read that "most") were nothing but a collection of links to other websites.

Oh, and I didn't even know what "ALT" tags were, let alone why they were important! Tested in other browsers? Oh, heck no! I put it together using Netscape Composer, and was terribly proud of it. Never even looked at it IE. LOL!

Every single page looked different and the navigation was minimal at best. The "Back" button was your best option for finding your way around the site.

It was AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!! ROTFL!!!!!!!!!

And you want me to try to dig up a copy of it I saved somewhere???? What are you high?????

I'll see what I can do...... ;)

mysticlighthouse · #16 (**permalink**) 11-25-2003, 12:30 PM

Okay... this is the earliest one that I can still find on the web...

http://www.geocities.com/bdenosky/Christ1

Created June 1999 at the height of the browser wars.

Wish I could still have my first one for sentimental value. It was a big 5mb one page site in 1996. I didn't have a graphics program and didn't know I needed to change image sizes, so all of my images were controlled with height and width. Oh yeah... it was a monster. I was learning by view source. Good times :-)

mysticlighthouse · #17 (**permalink**) 11-25-2003, 12:50 PM

Oh yeah... please try to not laugh too hard at the bio section pictures... thanks. ;-)

Plus anything with frames will only work in version 4 browsers... view the source and you'll see why (frames declared outside of the body tag)

Kevnn · #18 (**permalink**) 11-25-2003, 01:09 PM

My very first website is long gone now. But I do have a copy of my first all Flash website (it's still live and unchanged after about 5 years, but don't blame me! :-) ) and my first Flash presentation built for the web which was also my first attempt at using Flash at all.

website: http://www.capitalvacation.biz/home.html

presentation:http://www.holmcomputing.com/cmc/CapPresents.html

first Flash intro:http://www.holmcomputing.com/ccintro.html

first html site:http://www.holmcomputing.com/cmc/home.htm
This site includes the first two years of changes, but it mostly is in a color scheme change (maroon to blue) and added content (which doesn't all work anymore) Thanks to the way back machine post below, here's a link to what it looked like when I first put it up: http://web.archive.org/web/200106041...m/cmc/home.htm

bbattino · #19 (**permalink**) 11-25-2003, 01:16 PM

Quote:

I am still using my original design. The site has not changed since the day it was first commissioned in November 2001.

I am sure I would have changed it by now if some specific questions could have been answered. Never got those answers.

I am fairly satisfied with the site design and content, but remember. it's from a fathers point of view.

Any constructive advice would be warmly welcome.

Regards,

BB

jdiben · #20 (**permalink**) 11-25-2003, 01:20 PM

For those of you who don't know what the wayback machine is: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

See what some of your favorite websites looked like through the years.

Joe

picus · #21 (**permalink**) 11-25-2003, 01:32 PM

Hello,
These are some of my first designs for the local government website back in 1999.
you can see the current website at http://www.ags.gob.mx
Blessings for all of you, fellow webmasters!

http://www.aguascalientesmapa.com/kiosco/Ciudad.jpg

http://www.aguascalientesmapa.com/kiosco/Ciudad.jpg

socius · #22 (**permalink**) 11-25-2003, 01:33 PM

Hi! I'm the product manager of www.alterimundi.com and here is the first website I have done four years ago, but still active!
www.andreaavena.com. I think we have done many steps from there and our last production! (www.atondinovergadanza.com)
Paolo