I went back to the Wayback Machine to see the different incarnations of the CFG site. I’ve had 3 previous ones that I can remember. The last one was the blue design, using html tables and a touch of CSS:

The design previous to that was HTML only and had the menu bar along the top (doesn’t that logo look familiar. . .):

Both of these were when I had the CFG domain name, either pointing at the GeoCities free website, the 0catch site or the current godaddy locations. The wayback machine’s records only go back to Sept 3, 2000. Following links there the ‘site update bulletin’ shows the first entry as being May 23, 2000. They don’t have it, but it is still on my harddrive:

May 23, 2000: update bulletin created, cerebus checklist finished — pictures currently being added, created new index.html file for y’all to choose frames or no frames versions — this seemed to get rid of the ‘error’ message that keep popping up. Just finished added all of the pictures (that I currently have) to the Cerebus Checklist.

Frames? Wowza, that does take me back. Before GeoCities I had the CerebusFanGirl site on Juno using their WYSIWYG Homesteader interface – before I learned HTML. I don’t know when I started the CFG site, I want to say late 1999, but I don’t have any code dated that far back. The first IMHO column that I did, the precursor to my blog, is dated April 01, 2000. I know I had the CFG site before then – and as you can see by the above update, I had finished (ha!) the Cerebus checklist at that time.

10 years.

So taking what I learned about CSS from developing the CerebusTV website, and learning more (if you’ve been by in the past few weeks you’ve seen drop down menus and the links page was set up with tabs), I’ve redesigned the CFG page yet again.

Yes, I like purple.

The site looks best with any web browser other MicroSoft’s Internet Exploder – I’ve tested with FireFox (which I use and highly recommend), Safari and Chrome, and it looks like I want it to look with those browsers (MS claims that they are CSS 2.1 compliant with MSIE8, but the site still looks different on that browser while on the others it looks the same). I’ve set it up so it is formatted for a 1024 wide resolution monitor, but it looks the best if you have a monitor with at least a 1680 wide resolution screen. There are a few more tweaks that I want to do to it, but they’ll be minor.