The only thing that remains is this version of the logo and a lucky screenshot I happened to find while digging around.
I designed the header logo myself in a very early version of Photoshop. I think it was v4.5.
Archived blog posts exist beginning in March of 2001 however I know they began a little earlier than that, but I no longer have them.
Features included a phpnews driven blog, contact form, webcam page that refreshed every so often taking a screen grab when I happen to have my webcam on and a simple photo gallery. I wrote everything (except the phpnews script) by hand.
My longstanding website tagline read "A girls mind in 0s and 1s along with monthly 2s."
I also learned how to create an image map for the navigation links so I could design my own navigation bar as one image, with clickable areas, challenging without a visual editor to see where your points would end up.
I also introduced a Featured Album, thumbnails created manually and refreshed usually weekly.
Below is a mockup of what I wanted the layout to look like.
Not much to note except it took inspiration from my favorite album.
Otherwise content and features largely remained the same.
In the screenshot below the layout is a bit off but it did not appear that way when it was active. The web archive doesn't display it quite right.
I was beginning to integrate my photography into the site more and that gave me a larger way to experiment.
At some point I also introduced blog post comments as a feature as well. This design lasted quite awhile.
I also began a sub-site specifically for my graphic design and photography called ion-art. Eventually that site turned into ionyka.net which still runs today.
The "graphic design" aspect fell to the way side because it eventually got merged with my DeviantArt account.
I also created a digital photo gallery using a tool at the time called 35mm Slide Gallery. See example below, you could design your own look to the slides which was a huge appeal to me.
I also created another sub-site for my digital photography. Thus splitting up the volume of content so ion-art was for digital art and picion, which now was for my photography.
The layout was similar in style but with a new color scheme and feel.
I furnished my new place with a set of living room furniture that was a mix of natural wood and steel. Thus the ascetic of the site layout to resemble my new coffee table.
Because I was also working full time at the fruit stand the site finally began to take a backseat to other things as well as the influx of social media & apps.
Thus it became the longest lasting website design I used actively with also an added weather widget and a Currently Reading widget which replaced the phased out QOTD and Featured Album.
I actually just really loved this layout a lot :)
Not exactly thrilling, it made me somewhat sad for my site to sit idle for so long, but it just did not serve a big need other than to keep my domain and hosting alive so I could continue to have my email address.
The logos below are what I used up until most recently.
So why write all of this? Quite honestly it started as a curiosity about what my site looked like 20 years ago and if I still had samples of all my old versions.
Surprisingly I do have backups of all my old versions enough to make this list so I figured why not do something to celebrate 20 years!
I hope you have enjoyed going down memory lane with me. I have no real exciting plans for the site but I will never stop having it, so here is to another 20!