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Overview
Also known as 'the one with correct spelling', Source 3 had the shortest run of any Source, because as soon as I had designed it without much checking, I put all the old pages into the new format. Soon after, I realised I had created a monster. See, the problem was if you had a big monitor, the pages would expand and I'd have a huge space in the middle for writing. But, if you had a small monitor, this space would be tiny, and so nothing I had made fitted in. Sigh.
Thankfully, progress had been made, but this Source really just served the purpose of being an in-betweener 'twixt Source 2 and Source 4.

Although a bit of a mess, Source 3 had an amateurish charm about it.
See the madness

22nd of January 2000
>>EarthSource 3!! Boo - Yah!!
Well, the redesign is done. I'd like to take a moment to thank everybody who helped me get this far :

Geoff Nolan (for keeping me in a good humour)
Mark Cummins (for his Netscape knowledge)
John G Kelly (for telling me how crap it is)

and no-one else. All that's left to do is translate all the old pages into the new format. What a pain. Amazingly though, on my first try I made a layout that looks Ok on a small screen. The pages load slightly faster, but not much, especially the graphics-heavy front page. But it looks nice, doesn't it?

23rd of January 2000 ^Upload^
Sometimes I really surprise myself. I had an excellent idea today. Since I now have tonnes of space down the sides of the screen, I have invented
'The SideLine' - Where strange and Obscure crap goes to die
In it you'll find all sorts of stuff. Last night I thought up at least 50 'things' I can put in there, so I'll begin to stuff the sidebar full of goodness soon.
I got some free polls today, from a deadly place called » MyComputer.com. There's loads of good stuff for free there, so soon I should have a GuestBook and stuff. Great!
Plus! I've fully checked and the pages display well all the way down to 640x480. I still haven't checked them in Netscape (because, surprise surprise, it stopped working and I had to uninstall it), so I'll upload today (finally), perfect the design over the week, (we're in the Beta stage at the moment) and make final adjustments next weekend. That's when my life's work will be done.

26th of January 2000
Testing is going well, thank God, and things look like they might start to run smoothly for The Source. Due to my ongoing efforts to make friends, I have installed a GuestBook where you can let the emotion run free. Check it!

Sign the Sourcebook.

You know you're going to. I've tested in Netscape. Almost all is well, although no image changing works (like on the front page), and I had to fix a few links that went the wrong colour. I'm pretty sure that you can read these pages in version 3 browsers, which is pretty excellent. Soon there will be a poll on every page, and the new Site Search thing will be up. I won't know if it worked myself until I go on the net again, probably on Friday and I'll update. In the mean time I have to finish off some design, remake a few graphics, and index all my pages for the search thing. Yep, life is good.

15th of February 2000
Well, it's been a while, hasn't it? I haven't been away on holidays in some tropical paradise, oh no. Instead, I have been trying to create a new layout. The old one was ok, but it was far too complicated to work on, so I've gone back to the drawing board for the third time on the site. honestly, I wonder if I'll ever get anything written on what the site is about. Which brings me to a question that has been plaguing the visitors of the site (today, all 97 of you!) :

What's it about??

The answer I still haven't thought about properly. No, really. I suppose it's a place you come to to learn stuff, but that's pretty crap really. And it's not something you want to tell your friends. So in some way I'm going to have to up the 'wikid factor' by a multiple of ten. I'm going to be working on the NEW layout for the next week or so (because I had it, then wouldn't you know...Netscape made it look crap. ARGH!); then I'll put all the groovy writing into the new layout; fix the inevitable mistakes, then invite a few trusted observers to check it!, then it will be finished.
Jesus this newest re-design has nearly been the death of me. A word of warning kids : Website design is buttock-clenchingly frustrating. Especially if you're not quite sure how to fix your mistakes. But! As luck would have it, other people can make good-looking sites that work, so you can just rip it from them. Of course, The Source is above that petty crime.
We knicked someone's layout big-style!!
Yay for us, then eh? Yes. Hmm, I'm going to have to get someone to join me on this site so that I stop sounding like an idiot when I say 'we'. Because it's just 'me', you understand.
Well this update has gone on way too long, and actually this page is far too long. I better break it up or something. See ya soon
~Ross

16th of February 2000
Mr. Casio is going to love me. If the new design is going to work in Netscape, I'm going to have to physically calculate how high every page is. You don't know how awkward it is to hold a ruler up to your monitor while simultaneously beating a Netscape user over the head with a large, sharp brick. Down boy!
While this means even more work and, may I add, less stuff for you to read; I guess it's something I'm going to have to do if I want to consider myself 'un html artiste'. Which would be nice. The Source is going to look far more stylish when it comes back, just you wait. If it ever does come back and I'm not drawing my pension before my counter reaches 1-bloody-hundred. Ah well, I'm doing this for you guys I suppose. Gimps.