The Doctor Who Cuttings Archive Version 4.0 - Image 4 of 6
Image captured January 2000 - see comments below.
Comments
Even better, this still looks very nice to me although the graphical nature of the layout meant the page was overly large.
Leaving the main page aside, the rest of the Cuttings Archive was much closer in design to the current one, at least on the surface, and I knew what I was doing with images by this point so new scans were of a far higher quality than in the past.
By 2000 I was using Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Fireworks for all image editing/creation and optimisation and continue to do so - both of them are brilliant pieces of software! This is one of the major reasons for the vastly improved look of the site, that and a large dollop of experience!
Content and navigation were still issues, as with the last stage of the sites development, but many improvements had been made.
Technical Details
As noted above, by this point I was using professional level software, Photoshop and Fireworks, for the production of images.
On the coding front I had begun to use Macromedia Dreamweaver, another superb piece of software, particularly in it's more recent versions, and was able to hand-code to some extent. My increasing knowledge of HTML code had a downside in that I now recognised the mess of code that had been created by Front Page - a big clean up was ahead of me!
No. of Pages: 1129.
Overall size: 74.9 MB (78,557,442 bytes).
HTML version: None (no W3C DOM reference).
CSS: No.
W3C Compliant: No.