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History of the Homepage Here's the best I can reconstruct the evolution of my site's homepage. Over the years, I have saved previous versions of the graphics. But that's the apadtive nature of a digital medium. May 1999 I launched the site on May 1, 1999. I have yet to hunt down that original homepage. From what I remember, it's anemic looking (compared to today). There was the central circle, and 4 offshoots. One was a DOB 05.01.99 art project celebrating the site's launch. From Day 1 the site has had this "tinkertoy," circle and line design and has adapted over the years. Late 1999  I was so wiped out learning Dreamweaver and building the site, that I didn't touch it for the first six months it was online. I added a portfolio (upper left) and that clock/calendar thing (upper right). That was supposed to be a daily web design journal. Playing with the medium. Unsurprisingly, I couldn't keep up. Perhaps I'll find a few of those dusty old pages and archive them somewhere. June 2000  I nixed the calendar and added a journal. That Pages link on the left is my contribution to a show at Columbia College Center for the Book and Paper Arts. I chose to make a webpage. In the show, the URL was printed on the wall. The eye was the Curi-O-Matic. The two rings were a placeholder for The Marriage of Hope and Despair. The Marriage of Hope and Despair is an idea for the web as an art medium - why I got a site in the first place. I've begun it, but never got it online. Perhaps someday. I began my first blog,
my personal blog in July of 2000. March 2002  I added the Gallery, Info High, more Shop info. I began my Art/Work blog in August of 2002. December 2003  Here's the big color changes on the site. I had outgrown the dark blue and red color scheme. And I moved away from photographs to all line drawings for the navigation icons. I added the lime green Visual Communication/ Graphic Facilitation section. In February 2003, I added a Shop blog. In January 2004, I added 1:450:365, where the gray bowl is. Check it out. It was a nice project. Also, I added Back, Home, Bookmark, Search, Email and Copyright buttons to the top of every page:
January 2005  January 28, 2004 I started my VisCom blog. January of 2005, I recycled the gray bowl icon, turned it yellow for the Loosetooth.com Cookbook. It's a great community cookbook, iwth profits going to America's Second Harvest. Please buy one! April 2007 
This version never made it online. I began changes: adding a podcast link, changing the old portfolio to an archive, adding my world's fair project. BUT - it wasn't enough change. I sat on it for a bit. July 2007  Here's the latest. I moved the active portfolio rollover to where it belongs - the graphic facilitation section. I nixed the old portfolio and tucked in away in the Gallery section. And I reorganized the Gallery. It was Past and Ongoing projects. Now it's 2D Projects, 3D Projects, Places and People. I simplified the Shop section. Due to repetitive stress in my hands, I've pared down my crafting for sale. So, the Shop design was much more robust than it used to be. And I really didn't need a blog for it. The Podcast needed to be seperate from the Me section, since I realized that I would have podcasts on every section. And I added a Library. That's where everything is at. I hope you enjoy your time on Loosetooth.com! Any questions, please contact me. Some Constants The site has always been designed on 2 Dell PCs, and an HP laptop. I've always owned Sony digital cameras. First a Mavica and then two Cybershots. The site was designed in Macromedia's Dreamweaver and Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator. Everything! Here's a shot of the layered Photoshop files of all the homepages! Wowsa.  |
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