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On (re)designing this website
Wednesday 24 August 2005
My first foray into Web design was for my sister Helen’s site which went live in the summer months of 1999. I’d taught myself HTML from a book called HTML Goodies, by Joe Burns. The first design was frames-based, with a navigation frame on the left-hand side of the browser window which drove the content pages on the right-hand side. The first site had I think ten pages or so, and had a cream background which we now refer to as “vomit” coloured.
Even back then I saw the benefits of using CSS to control the layout of the page, though I was only using style sheets really to define the fonts, and even then I got caught up with a mixture of relative and absolute font-sizing that looked different on every browser and OS combination I tried.
Gradually I moved away