This time last week I was reading a couple of forum posts and ended up ordering a video camera from eBay. When it comes to new techy toys I’m way too easily manipulated. Anyway it was £13 so I figured that even if I barely ever use it I can just about justify it.
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A few people have asked my why my domain name is www.stompyrobot.net and the truth is that it was the first thing that entered my mind when needing to get some webspace to hold my coursework at uni. I think it all stems from a video project me and a two friends had to do for one of our modules.
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I’ve just learnt that you can get a wordpress app on the Android Marketplace, that’s kind of cool. It won’t help me actually maintain this but I thought it was interesting anyway. :)
While it is still under some construction I have launched a website site for an Edinburgh wedding photographer, Jason Seymour. At the moment it is just a fairly simple site with a gallery based on jquery and lightwindow but I am going to be putting together a PHP and MySQL driven back-end to allow Jason to upload images and add galleries by himself.
The reason for doing it this way is to allow him to be able to start directing potential clients to his site and build a reputation while the rest of the development work is underway. Go have a look and let me know if I’ve broken anything.
So this week saw the 40th birthday of Arpanet, the foundations for the Internet that we all know today. This week also saw the doors closing on Geocities, the first introduction to web design.
Geocities was the best known of many quick WYSIWYG webpage creation sites and over time became synonymous with badly designed websites about nothing at all that were filled with animated backgrounds, lurid coloured text and blinking/scrolling paragraphs of pure joy.
I also remember there being other similar services such as Homestead and the flash based Moonfruit. Looking at them now it appears that both are still operating but for money instead of as hosting for advertising deals.
There is no doubt that Geocities was due to be put down for crimes against coding and design. It is also likely that few will miss it thanks to the rise of decent software and cheap hosting as well as social networks negating most people’s needs for personal web pages. Despite all of this I am thankful to it for giving me my first web space to play around in.
