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Old Web Site Layouts
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A True Homepage My site started out with the emphases on my personal activities, based around the rooms in my home. The Flight Deck at that time, was just a smaller side page linked to by the airplane on top of the white cabinet in the Study. |
Frames As the Flight Deck pages became more popular, I went to a frame layout. I thought that by having the menu on the left, it would make it easier for people to navigate the site. And it worked well, until I began to understand how frames made it harder for search engines to index my site. |
Java So I moved on to Java. I really liked this menu. It was simple and easy to use. It had sound effects and the pictures rotated to match the selections. I kept it for about 6 months then dropped it because I wasn't sure if the Java ran correctly on most computers. Besides, I wanted to try my new Fireworks program. |
Pop Ups If you ran your cursor across the airplanes, all the images, logos and text, kind of, popped out. This was my first use of Fireworks so the layout was only up for a few months. |
Testing 1,2, 3 By the time I created this page, I had learned how to work Fireworks and I went, a little crazy. Just about everything on the page was a rollover effect. It was a test layout, so I only kept it online for a few weeks. |
Flash My first and second attempted at Flash, with rollovers, sound effects and a lot of things moving around. The first last only a few months . . . |
. . . but the second interface was a lot better then the first and lasted more then a year. |
CDU By this point, the Flight Decks had taken, so I thought that it would be nice if I used a flight deck control unit as a interface. The CDU worked and the scratchpad window changed accordingly. Lasted about a year. It was too vertical and I didn't want people scroll up and down on the main page. |
Mode Control So, I stayed with the control interface idea, and just made it simpler, shorter, with a lot more interaction. I think it was my best layout. Lasted about 2 years. |
Glareshield I really liked the control interface theme, so why not put the Mode Control into a real glareshield layout. Yeah! And put a working Compass up there too!. So, the Mode Control Layout theme would continue to roll-on, for a few more years. |
Plane Shadow Finally . . . I got tried of that Mode Control, so I tried something eye catching. Nice to look at, but it was too large and had way too many slices to load in. Lasted 6 months at the most. |
DropDowns I wanted a page where you could access all the flight deck panels, from a single page. Enter the Dropdown page. Added a little Flash to the image header making the dark clouds move behind the plane. It also loaded a lot faster! |
Floating Background I got the idea for this interface from one of my favorite web sites, Ozone. It started out as the theme for my homepage, but I finally moved it over to the Flight Deck Simulation pages, where it's still being used as the interface for that part of my site. |
Visual Interface What I liked about this interface was that as you moved your cursor over the different links, small windows would pop-up giving you more Textural and Visual information about that link. And for the first time, I started using a "Side Slide-Out Menu Bar" that is still being used through-out my site. |
Current Interface I wanted to highlight more of my photo gallery, so instead of forcing people to dig down into my site to find that Photo Gallery, I just added it to my frontpage. |
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I started my web site in the early 90's and it has changed a lot since then, as you will see from the images and comments in this gallery.
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