Then Job arose and rent his robe and shaved his head and fell down upon the ground and worshiped and said, "Naked came I from my mother's womb, and naked shall I depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord!" In all this Job sinned not nor charged God foolishly.
Version 1.1.7, 2005 August — I've coded up a simple photo gallery using only a handful of PHP scripts to generate thumbnail and image pages on-the-fly as they are requested. This makes adding new galleries and photos nearly effortless (other than taking the time in iPhoto -- s l o w on a 400mHz G3 -- to choose the pictures, rotate them, and then send them -- s l o w with a dial-up modem).
Version 1.1.6, 2005 June — I've added a few more "boxes" to the page. The CSS box model is nice, but frustrating. Its nice as far as what it is supposed to accomplish for the designer; frustrating in how certain aspects have been defined in its specification and/or implemented by various browsers. For example, a box's width value operating on its contents alone and not its contents plus padding and border just does not seem right. But that's the way it is. Also, can divs be nested or not? I suppose the answer to this no. However, when a box within a box seemed like just the right way to accomplish the layout of the page header ("welcome to doug-watkins.com" and the photograph), it worked perfectly in IE6 but not in Safari 1.3. Oh well. This is a great learning experience, at least.
Version 1.1.5, 2005 June — Here we go after recreating the style sheet.
Version 1.1.4, 2005 June — A bit of an improvement. . . Yikes, until a slip of the mouse obliterated my style sheet. It was coming along, really. In any case, for a hopefully brief time, you get to see what a naked page looks like. Perhaps I'll keep an example around even after recoding the style sheet, just to show anyone who cares to to take a peek at what CSS style sheets do.
Version 1.1.3, 2005 May — I've had the chance now to learn much more about CSS. My previous experience with it has been in creating software product prototype screens—using fonts and colors to emulate an IBM 3270 terminal. I now realize I was only skimming the surface. With this "version," I've begun controlling more elements with CSS. However, don't look to this as an example of the best way to do things. That'll come next. I promise.
Version 1.1.2, 2005 May — Adding CSS styles seems the next logical step to take, so here is our still simple home page demonstrating for the most part the goodness of separating content and presentation.
Version 1.1.1, 2005 April — This next step in building a web site from scratch entailed converting the CorelDraw generated stuff into "better" HTML. This is still very simple.
Version 1.1, 2005 April — Created with and exported from CorelDraw 11, the first version of the home page is very simple. I thought I'd try this out while playing with color schemes and graphical elements. I wasn't too hopeful about this being a viable webdev tool and, therefore, wasn't too disappointed—not much here worthy of keeping around HTML-wise. So, we'll quickly move along