The Doctor Who Cuttings Archive Version 2.0 - Image 2 of 6
Image captured April 1999 - see comments below.
Comments
A year in and I'd learnt a bit more and, thankfully, realised that multi-coloured text (see previous version) was not a great idea! The design you see above is fairly plain but does the job and you might notice the Cuttings Archive had won it's first award (see top right above) - I was rather proud of that.
The site had expanded considerably (see Technical Details below) and scans were kindly being donated by a number of people. The quality of the images/cuttings on the site had also improved but there were (and this remains the case even now) a lot of scans that were produced in the very early days and were frankly pretty awful!
I was learning all the time and trying to improve the site as much as possible and this led to much hard work on both the design and content of the site. It still wasn't right though but was probably the best I could manage at the time given my level of experience.
Technical Details
Still the same underlying buggy code although by this time I had swapped the free, and pretty awful, Microsoft Front Page for the expensive, and even more awful, Front Page Express. Another 'feature' at this point was the ever increasing numbers of tables, many embedded, that I utilised for layout purposes.
I'll stress both versions of Front Page produced terrible code which, in my now experienced view, was/is designed to produce websites that only M$ browses would swallow properly and thus squeeze out the opposition. Well, it's either that or the software's produced by a bunch of idiots, now it couldn't be that could it...?
Look at the top left of the image and you'll see the words "These pages are best viewed at a resolution of 800x600 or larger", this was quite a popular little note placed on a lot of websites at the time but this type of browser/screen specific design is now rightly considered rather bad practice.
No. of Pages: 711.
Overall size: 51.0 MB (53,513,071 bytes).
HTML version: None (no W3C DOM reference).
CSS: No.
W3C Compliant: No.