These pages are cringingly bad. You have been warned.
I took a whole bunch of Nalin's photos, scanned them in and made my first web site. The quality of the photos isn't very good; the colours of the photos where often wrong, and my scanner wasn't very good either. I tried to correct the colours using gimp, with only partial success.
It was hosted on free web space by my dial-up ISP (demon). At the time, the web site was VERY slow. It did stick around on the net for quite a while, even after I stopped using demon. In fact, as of writing (Feb 2006) it still exists
My second web site, slightly less crappy looking (but less interesting than Nalin's artwork).
This was the beginning of a simple prototype. I've only kept it because it is the first web site that I was paid to write.
The real thing doesn't exist any more, and wasn't available on the internet.
Aaron asked Nalin to rebuild a web site for his fledgling hypnotherapy practice. The old site was hosted on a friend's home computer, looked very bad, was never updated, and was often off-line.
Nalin rewrote much of the text, and I revamped the layout and the graphics and made it easy to maintain by using jsp custom tags to seperate the content and presentation.
As of writing, the site is still in use, Aaron is now running a sucessful, full time hypnotherapist practice.
Aaron's brother Josh started a band - they are damned good, but their web site sucked. So I created a mock-up of what I think it should look like. Josh seemed to like it, but other members of the band didn't want to have a "outsider" in charge of thier web site. The site never made it "live".
Since creating my mock-up, they have rewritted their web site. Its a lot better now, than it was.
Following the success of City Hypnosis, I was also asked to create Locked and Bolted. This business wasn't so successful though, and is no longer running.
I bought a cheap domain name, and hijacked some web space from the city hypnosis web site. Its quite a random collection of pages. some infulenced by the new craze of blogging, others
After creating Aaron's and Josh's sites, everyone wanted one! First came Dad with his singles club.
I used the same techniques to create the site (i.e. jsp custom tags), but my dad wanted to maintain the site himself, so I gave him the html, and a crappy html editor, and he does everything himself.
I tried to covert him to use a wiki, but he didn't like the idea.
After seeing the mock-up of The March Hares web site, my borter Mike wanted a similar site for his band, "Eastbound Platform". They aren't really in the same league as The March Hares. Eastbound Platform are a tongue in cheek, covers band.
I created the layout for the site, added the photos that I had, and waited for the text. It never came, so the site was full of "blah blahs" for months. In 2006 I converted the site to use wiki technology, but still nobody updated the text - oh well.