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Past Websites

Go ahead, laugh it up.

Okay, well I figured I'd dedicate a page to the sites of yore. These sites, while not marvelous in any respect, were some of the contributing factors that got me into web design. This page should serve as a reminder that everyone has to start somewhere, and that I, if anything, have progressed tremendously since my first attempt at coding for the web.

NukemLAN (Dec. 2002)

My first real website, powered by the myPHPNuke CMS. The site actually served its purpose well. The forums were highly active and the software allowed me to do everything from sending newsletters to making photo albums. It made running my non-profit LANParty much easier, and introduced me to the concept of Open-Source CMS software. I even hacked my way through their mail-sending script to make an event registration page. That was the first time I had ever been exposed to PHP.

Digital Requital (Aug. 2003)

Digital Requital was the name of my blog that I started in the fall of my junior year of high school. The blog itself was powered by Movable Type (version 2.65, the final free version of the software) and used a custom theme that I had developed using a theme from Neil Turner. The endeavor left me with a knowledge of the basics of CSS, as well as my first few experiences with Adobe Photoshop. The site performed dutifully as my blog until December of 2005, when it's hosting (NukemLAN) ran out and was not renewed.

PGSIT2004.com (Aug. 2004)

After getting back from Governor's school, I created a website for the PGSIT alumni to keep in touch. Once again, it was powered by myPHPNuke due to it's ease-of-use and generally short install time. My good experiences with myPHPNuke led me to seek an open-source solution for hosting our photos, so I turned to LinPHA, a piece of photo-album software developed for PHP and SQL-enabled webservers.

Seneca Valley Senior High School (Nov. 2004)

At one point in my senior year of high school, I volunteered to update the homepage for our building. It was in dire need of an update, and I was happy to breathe some life into the old site. While the site itself was nothing spectacular (HTML 4.0 and a small amount of CSS), it taught me about a fundamental principle: Server-Side Includes (SSI). Since the SVSHS site was my first application of them, they were minimal -- taking the form of a navigation menu that I included on each page.

The Seneca Scout (Dec. 2004)

A part of the SVSHS site (mentioned above), the Seneca Scout was our school newspaper. They had wanted to go online for a long time, and nobody as of then was able to help. After a day of playing with their publishing software, Quark, I had figured out how to publish the sites online. There were a few catches though, the sites that Quark exported needed some editing done on them before they could be put on the web. This was a great opportunity though, because I got to train a small group of individuals on the webcode that I knew thus far, and after that, they had become autonomous. The Seneca Scout is still online today using the same techniques.