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Ah..progress. It's a great thing you know. Source 4 was the first time I was ever completely happy with the design straight after I had implemented it.
What started out as a routine update of the design (I was hoping it would work well in Netscape at best), turned into a gargantuan overhaul of the whole site. The crap was indeed cut.
The end result was a nice, but flawed design. The fact that I had to measure the height of everything I was writing was surely the greatest pain ever. After working with it for a while I just decided it wasn't worth it and began work on a new one. Bollok!
Once again, but this time more than ever, lots of progress had been made. I now really understood what I was doing, and fixed most of the design issues I had had with older Sources. It was the first time I would ever honestly call the site 'pretty' too, which, y'know, is nice.
Still awake? Then check out this funky chicken :
Check out dat Source
1st March 2000
>>Source 4!! Wicka-Wicka!
Ah yes. Brand new Source 4 is here, still fresh from the oven. And it's prettier, easier to use and just plain better than ever before!
Check the features :
- Now works at screen size of 800x600 (I know I said it used to work at even
lower sizes, but, well, I lied. BWA....ha....ha?)
- Literally everything has been overhauled, tweaked and sharpened
- Pages zip now, rather than 'dodder', like in 3
- Source is now, as promised, a far more stylish affair, especially if you're using a newish browser
- FULL Netscape support -incredibly- and it doesn't look half bad. I am stupefied in disbelief
- I wrote a crapload of new content to ring in Source 4's arrival - the site map page has a use, my profile is (3 months late) finally up, as if you care, and updates has been re-organised (with an excellent, try-to-hold-back-the-tears history page)
The whole site isn't ready yet, but I've settled on a design and have the entire HomePage section running smoothly. The rest will follow, hopefully quickly, because I've left the same (rubbish) version of
Source 3 up on the net for a couple of months while I worked on this one. Upload soon, I promise!
2nd March 2000
After some minor layout problems, I revamped the entire site again, in one day. Ack! The pages now work better in old browsers, a feature I almost forgot to put in. The front page design is almost ready, with some rough graphics looking the business. I got a better search engine today, better for Netscape anyway.
4th March 2000
Ah yes! I finally got rid of the old section system. You remember - Encyclopedia, Atlas, all that jazz. I wish I had noticed that they were redundant a long time ago, since all the sections I've decided to carry on with are all from the Encyclopaedia part. Can you believe I spelt that wrong for so long?!
In other excellent news - have you seen the very great frosty effect behind this writing? I came up with that myself - go on - try to find it on any other site. It means that I can use bright, colourful backgrounds while still keeping the writing readable. Do I have the funk? Yep.
6th March 2000
Isn't the site so much brighter? Hopefully this will mean the site will stop appearing in the newspapers alongside the headline "The Source killed my son". I actually don't know how I worked on such a gloomy site for so long without falling into a massive depression.
Oh well - it's a new sunnier me from now on!
8th March 2000
After a 'great idea' didn't really work out, I've had to spend the whole of tonight fixing mess-ups. Good news though!! The pages work great with even rubbish old browsers.
And Netscape.
I started a 'Muzak' page, and am now realising that it was probably a bad idea. Damn!
Source 4 is definitely shaping up to be a bit special. Can you bear waiting 5 seconds for a page to download? Yes please, Daddy!
12th March 2000
A homepage is always a useful thing for a site isn't it? Sadly, that's the one thing Source 4 lacks at the moment. Not to worry, I'm sure one will turn up soon, and I might have the whole thing ready by next week. Anticipate!
I've been trying to find a new webspace provider for ages, and thought » FreeServers would be good. So I registered www.earthsource.8m.com and tried to log in. Nope. Again. No deal. 7 times... The next day I get an email.
"There was a fire, or something. Your website was lost. Whoops."
Crap! So I have to wait about two weeks before putting it up.
14th March 2000
Muzak section R.I.P. Well, it was turning out a bit crap anyway. I now have almost half the site converted, so please God I'll be finished soon. I got a lot of negative feedback in school today about the site. Where do you people get off?? Tsk. Asses.
Check out the new site search. It's ace. Get one for your site at » Atomz.com. Must be off! The France article awaits!
April 6th 2000
Hope everyone had a good April fools day. The magic is kinda gone, isn't it? Remember, when you would steal your dad's car keys, then flush them down the bog, and run up to him with a big grin and shout "April Fools!" Man, that was the best.
April 9th 2000
I haven't written a proper update for a while, have I? Well, I've been busy - Easter Exams and that. Oh well guess what? I'm redesigning again! Huzzah! Huzzah for redesigns!
Yes, that's right. I wasn't happy with good old Source 4, so I'm going to try again. I don't know why I bother. I had actually stopped working on The Source for a while there, as, let's face it, it's been going almost half a year and I've only recently got past 100 hits. Hmm.. I should probably get those search engines searchin'. What an excellent idea!
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