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Portfolio Showing Some of My First Websites
This page shows some examples of websites I made when I started working as a freelance full-stack web and database developer/designer in 2001.
I'll add a lot more to this page soon, and also demo some of the other sites and projects I worked on around that time, and later on...
Embedded Website — Loose Furniture
For this site for Loose Furniture, I adapted the look and feel of their existing promotional material to the web. The desired outcome was a clean, uncluttered look, without a lot of links and other material surrounding the pages.
The site shows examples of products available and gives information about the company. The animation on the home page is 20 KB in size, giving virtually no delay (perhaps a couple of seconds) in waiting for the page to download before the animation begins. (2001-2002 internet was a lot slower than in 2021-2022, and minimising file sizes was a very high priority for getting anything to load quickly.)
The contact information has been changed to zeroes since this was 20 years ago, and (as far as I'm aware) the company is no longer operational.
The website is embedded in a 1024 x 768 iframe to emulate the low screen resolutions of 2001-2002.
Because the sites from that era (this one was from 2001-2002) were made for much smaller screen resolutions, they look wrong on modern screens. I've embedded this one inside an 1024 x 768 pixel iframe, so that it displays more like the proportions that it was meant to look like originally. I've avoided modifying the original site to look more modern and more "responsive" in terms of how it works on different devices' screens, because its meant to be shown here as basically a museum piece of what early 2000s internet was like.
The animated Macromedia/Adobe Flash content is run here using a Flash emulator called Ruffle.
Embedded Website — Road Safety Auditors Register
The Road Safety Auditors Register listed qualified and competent Road Safety Auditors who were available for work in NSW, Australia. I developed the website and database for the Institute of Public Works Engineering Australia (NSW Division) and the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority.
The site was made using Macromedia Cold Fusion and a Microsoft SQL Server database. Members of the public (and anyone working in a related industry) could use the site to look for a qualified Road Safety Auditor. Auditors were able to log in and maintain their own record online.
This demo version shown below is non-functional, and contains no actual auditor information nor private data. It demonstrates some of the features and styling which were present in the live working version, which went online in 2002. The contact information has been changed to zeroes, since this website was made 20 years ago.
The picture in the green-tinted thumbnail art in the very top-left corner of the screens (and on the "About" button on the home page) is me driving my VH Commodore.
The website is embedded in a 1024 x 768 iframe to emulate the low screen resolutions of 2002.
Because the sites from that era (this one was from 2001-2002) were made for much smaller screen resolutions, they look wrong on modern screens. I've embedded this one inside an 1024 x 768 pixel iframe, so that it displays more like the proportions that it was meant to look like originally. I've avoided modifying the original site to look more modern and more "responsive" in terms of how it works on different devices' screens, because its meant to be shown here as basically a museum piece of what early 2000s internet was like.
Macromedia/Adobe Flash
The animated Flash intro was a popular style around 2001. Since Flash had so many security issues it was discontinued — though it can be emulated now using Ruffle (which is written in the programming language Rust, and compiled to Web Assembly).
Coming Soon
Many more live examples of coding, web and database development, and security work to be added to this website soon...
I'll also write about some of the technology used then, and now — and how things have changed over the 20 years from 2001 to 2021.
Easy Clock With Seconds On Windows 11
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Stuxnet and the Birth of Cyber War
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