Website's Thirteenth Birthday, a Trip Down Memory Lane

I think I made my first home page some time around 1995. It was pretty basic but it had lots of animated gifs and made extensive use of the <blink> tag so I was happy.

Since then the site's gone through five distinct revisions including the one your looking at now, and I think it's got a little better with each.

Here's a screen-shot of my very first site. Notice the rotating globe in the header, and the spinning email link. They don't make them like that any more, huh?

Here's the next revision. I had found the <frameset> tag, but black backgrounds were still all the rage at this point:

By the third revision I was working as a web developer and head learnt to construct cmplex themes using tables:

And by the fourth revision I had learnt not to construct complex themes using tables, but to instead relax in the zen like simplicity of XHTML and CSS:

In this fifth revision my focus has really shifted towards content management. I needed something which would allow me to publish, quickly, easily and regularly:

DokuWiki's just the trick.