re-integrating my online identity...

WOW! I've tried to put together an online art portolio for many years. It's probably one of the few things that I've tried over and over and kept failing to do. I graduated from college, in December, 1999 so most of the freebie website hosts from back then were not all that good. Today things have improved massively. It's neat to go back in time and see some of the stuff I attempted and remember why I gave up.

I remember the first year or two after college, I tried to put several sites online. Many of the hosts from back then have all but died off. All the stuff I was trying was mostly all hand coded html, javascript, and very bad scans of photos taken with a 35 mm analog camera. I remember finding lots of problems with various online places due to finding limits on the freebie website hosts and things because of space limitations. I remember trying to make thumbnails for each jpg. Remember, I'm just a painter... all this html editing stuff and web design stuff was stuff I was learning on my own outside of classes.

I remember trying to cross reference several free website hosts to try to get more space online than any one would allow... I remember finally giving up on all of it, and just focusing on turbosquid since they have free space to sell photos on and have a nearly unlimited amount of space... Anyways, today I stumbled across one of my old sites. I just changed the index since it's ancient and it still had my parent's real address on it as well as phone numbers. What an idiot I was to post that info for real. You can go and look at it now but it'll mainly just redirect you back to here.
http://master_artisan.fortunecity.com/index.html

Here's the part where I was part where I was starting an online gallery...
http://master_artisan.fortunecity.com/installation.html

Around that time fortuncity's little bitty free webspace was about the only alternative around as well as several other freebie places... all of which have mostly died off. Don't try to reach me at the email address listed over there since it's out of date and no longer used. No wonder I never got an art job... I kept changing my online identity too much, making badly coded webpages with links and images that didn't link well, and overall was in over my head... Well, now that blogger is here, I plan to stay, even if it means my google page ranking will never be too high. I might try to download the jpgs from over there and re-make something like that here.

Look at those huge ads fortunecity put on there.