My First Website

October 22nd, 2005

I was looking through some archived files tonight and ran across the first website I ever created. It was 1998, I was in college, and I was working for the college bookstore. Keep in mind that I had only been learning HTML for a few weeks, the design is cheesy, and the navigation isn’t very usable, so don’t be too harsh.

I give you, in all its tabled, and sliced image glory the Dixie College Bookstore website circa 1998.

I’m going to pass the baton to a few friends and maybe this could prove to be an interesting meme. If you are a web designer or developer, feel free to post screenshots (or even the whole site, if you have it) of your very first website, and leave a comment about it here.

Posted by Brian Sweeting Filed in Design, Development, Fun Stuff

6 Responses to “My First Website”

  1. Thomas David Baker Says:
    October 23rd, 2005 at 2:11 pm

    Still live on the web after 8 years. Geocities don’t appear to ever delete anything. http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Realm/8802/main.html

  2. Thomas David Baker Says:
    October 23rd, 2005 at 2:11 pm

    And WOW is that animated GIF a lot faster than it was in 1997.

  3. Brian Says:
    October 23rd, 2005 at 3:25 pm

    I was hoping to see some animated GIFs. :)

  4. Cameron Moll Says:
    October 24th, 2005 at 3:37 pm

    Ah, yes, firsts… So critical at the time, so painful to see now…

    Mine mentioned here, with several others: http://www.cameronmoll.com/archives/000014.html

  5. Shane Says:
    October 30th, 2005 at 10:46 am

    I wish I still had mine - created some time in 1996 at Portsmouth University (UK).

    It was about Bioinformatics (course work) and featured spinning heart animated GIFs.

    Wish I had a screenshot!

  6. Matt Says:
    November 15th, 2005 at 1:39 pm

    Whoa.. I was actually at Dixie in 98 and remember that site. That’s awesome.