I was playing around with the Wayback Machine over the weekend and stumbled across my first ever attempt at web design – a site for a band I used to manage called Mogwai.
Now I’m not all that proud of the homepage layout or design, but it shows just how design has come! Although this version is from October 1999, I’m pretty sure this version had been in existence since 1996! Also pretty sure I knocked the site up in Dreamweaver (without consulting the manual!).
It should be noted that back then I was more concerned with making sure band members, tourbuses and guitars were in the right place at the right time rather than something as trivial as a menu bar!
Actually, the more I look at it, the more I like it. There’s something pretty innocent about it really. I wonder if we will ever return to a time when there is more emphasis on heavily text-based web design?