masck.com and its predecessors have been around since March 1997. During this period, the site has undergone numerous design revisions. This page is dedicated to remembering those revisions, and showing off the growth of the site. Unfortunately, records of the site prior to November 1998 have been lost to history. I believe the records perished circa 2000 in the "great zip disc disaster." It was a tough time, and I hate to think of the value of all that missing data.

The pages shown below are slightly modifed. The links on most pages were deleted, so the sites below are just a few pages deep. Absolute references were were changed to relative references, and email addresses have been scraped to avoid modern crawlers.

Without further ado, let's begin:

Version 6. November 5th, 1998. This page was originally frame-based but the frame encoding was so wrong, I had to rewrite it as a table to get it to display properly in a modern browser. Nice burgundy color scheme, very late 90s.

Version 7. There is a splash page, and a few layers of depth preserved here. This is the first of the frame-based pages. Called "the wooden-web" they date to the end of March 1999.

Version 8. May 10, 1999, this short lived design is the first of the "lamp-web," named for the repeating graphic taken from a photograph of a still-extant-very-large-and-ugly lamp.

Version 9. The second of the lamp-web. The lamp motif is taken deeper, with a bunch more copies of the same repeated design. Interestingly enough, the splash page featured this image, unrelated to everything else on the site. Make of that what you will. 16 March, 2000.

Version 10. This site is interesting, for a few reasons. It is the first use of cascading style sheets, as well as the first rollovers. The main navigation for this site is still rollover based. I've always sort of liked the logo, and the rollover is effectively used here. Several layers of depth are preserved. August 1, 2001.

Version 11. 27 May 2002. Version 11 is a huge revision. It brings the site into the modern day. The sepia color scheme is carried through to version 15, and the top-level organization will be familiar to present masck.com browsers. With this revision, the strict naming hierarchy was developed, and so bookmarks from this time period on will direct to the correct places. The rollover in the corner is cute, it owes its history to version 10. Each of the rollover images were used, in sepia, as the graphic at the top of each page. Used here, too were the "dictionary" style page titles. The photograph is from Sarasota Opera, 2001.

Version 12. This is the first revision with the Eaglefeather typography and imagery. While versions 13-15 changed slightly, the building, and sunset were still used. I believe this revision used the same exact code as the previous, dropping the upper right rollover, and changing the images. 4 September 2002. The building was photographed in Italy, fall 2001.

Version 13. This edition changed to a more free-form design, with the links following a gentle curve on the right hand side. I believe the internal pages remained unchanged with this redesign of the front page. 19 July 2003.

Version 14 was in use for the second half of 2003. The curvilinear shape of the indexing has been modified, pulling three choices to the left side. Observant visitors will note the artwork behind the title has changed subtly as well. The design is cleaner and more reflective of my business card. This was also the introduction of the "H&M" style page titles inside the site.

Version 15 was the longest lasting version to date. It was new at the tail end of 2003, and ran until December 2005. The site changed around to reflect life changes. The Theatre section is gone, for the first time in ages, and the Journal has also been removed. A new Architecture section was developed, using a portion of the pages that were based in Images. The orange color is finally gone from the style sheet too.

Version 16 is the current version. This version looks somewhat like my business cards. The P22 Typewriter font makes its appearance, and the navigation is photo-based. It was created to reflect my long standing ennui with the site. I have become an active flickr user, so the badge on the front page should change frequently, keeping something interesting. Beyond corrections, I don't know if the site will change much for a while. There are still some things that seem interesting, but I sit at the computer for so much of my day, I have a hard time getting excited about sitting down to write HTML.