My first public site, “TiffanyxGraphix” (oh yeah) was hosted by Freewebs. It was fantastically coded using Frontpage with fixed DIV layers and crappy coding aplenty. The layout was premade and it featured Chibimaru, a Sanrio character *coughillegalcough*. The site was aimed toward the ‘graphix’ scene with blends and multi-colors.
My first real site was hosted by Lai. This time, I made my own layout, still using illegal images, but it was my own. I had crappy content that was made using tutorials. The site opened up in a tiny popup and had really small content space (iFrames duh). That was during the pixelling age (powered by HaloScan).
Later, for the same site I switched to a more advanced coding stage (realizing Frontpage sucks). It was an introduction to X/HTML and PHP as I started exploring Wordpress. I used an iFrame based theme by Jays for a different layout (still in the same style though: popup, tiny, iFrames). After that, I moved onto another pre-made theme by Jays, but this time it was different. It had a sidebar and separate sections with headers. This was all made of DIV layers; I’ve never used anything else since.
Summary:
- iFrames are Bad
- Graphix are Sad
- Pop-Ups are Mad
- Lai was Rad
Hmm, I wouldn’t say all pre-made themes are bad, just depends on which ones you use. Although I had the same experience with insecure forms. Some were at least amusing to read
Web desiging is not that bad.
Some pre-made themes aren’t bad.
Love the layout!
Very nice.
As much as I hate to admit, I was one of those iFrame crazy guys when it comes to coding a layout. Practically, under every heading is a hidden iFrame. The main index file was a mega huge collection of [iframe] and [/iframe] html tags.
I am glad that, that passed. I am more into cleaner layouts now (no iframes) and play alot with colors.
haha, aww. We all made mistakes back then! I’m sure soon I’ll look back on my current layout, and think.. omg. haha
Hope you had a merry christmas~
Back in the day (before I knew how to open comments on my blog), I thought it was awesome to have a talkbox thing.. my experience was similar to yours.
That’s why I hand code all my own themes unless it’s a premade I like. Then I just pull a dr. frankenstein on it. xD
oh i remember the horrid layouts i used to make. they’d be pink with a cartoon japanese kitten on it and i remember it being called chibilicious. lmao.
wut? you’re site was cute
i miss you