Stories

Here are a variety of stories and memories from other webdesigners from way back when. You can share your own here!

Currently, 4 stories have been shared!

A story by Lewyth (Sorry for my crappy english!)

I still make old school websites for the sake of good times, and I still use Internet Explorer because no other browser makes websites look as I want them to (I need my color scrollbars and effects on the links!).

I miss my fanlistings a lot =( I stopped having a fanlisting section on my blog because of the lack of fanlistings about my favorite things. I just couldn't make all of them by myself. I also miss those times when people had buttons to link their blogs, the typical 88x31 or 31x31 buttons =) I still use them, but as most of my affiliates don't have buttons of their own I had to start linking them with text links... *sigh*

I miss when websites were pretty instead of plain and boring. I loved chromeless, and shines about series/videogames/characters. And I effing miss 4:3 monitors!!!! ;_;

- shared on 23 Apr 11 12:02am www |

A story by Rose Things I remember and miss...

-When cliques and webrings were still relevant

-Woogoo & The Wormie Mafia

-Greymatter

-peachness.net

-When owning a domain felt like some super sacred privilege.

-When marquees were socially acceptable

-When there were 'pro IE, anti Netscape!' websites out there (similar to today's pro firefox/pro chrome & anti IE!)

-When livejournal was by invitation only

-When CSS was still in its baby phase

-When only super geeks knew what a blog was

-virtue.nu & envy.nu webhosting

-pitas.com blogging

-b2

- shared on 11 Mar 11 12:07am www |

A story by Shiori It's been some twelve years since I started designing. While so many things have changed about the way we design and our motivations for designing, the passion we all hold is fairly constant. I think that's what keeps me in the community and making sites. It's a passionate experience. ^^

- shared on 25 Oct 10 06:23pm www |

A story by Todd I still hold tight to a lot of things that people have abandoned. I think I might have the only domain that still has a guestbook, lol. I miss the days when buttons and banners could be (and most often were) ugly. I miss having 100 cliques and rings I could join instead of the 5 or 6 that exist today. I miss marquees on sites, polls, and top 25 site lists. I miss my FastCounter by bCentral and my Bravenet resources.

- shared on 25 Oct 10 06:13pm www |