Here's a sampling of my previous web pages. Not all of the dates are accurate for when I first placed the pages on the CISE Web Server, most of them suggesting when I took them off the server. Whatever the dates, enjoy.

October 2, 1995
Not necessarily my first effort in HTML (I once had the now-endangered grey-background/black-text/royal-blue-link page), this page reveals the horrible dangers of new technology. Apart from the transparent .GIF company logos which I subsequently deleted for taste, the excitement of being able to place any image in the background led to this wonderful combination of color.

One highlight of this page, however, is the main image by former roommate David Schumacher. Inspired by this work, I began my own forays into Photoshop territory.

October 4, 1995
Keeping the main image, I revised the page, and began playing with table formatting to greater effect than the previous disaster. The color combination ushered in a "light-on-dark" look to all of my pages, a look which would survive until my pages' current incarnations.

You can also see the evolution of the various pages with small elements from music, comics, and poetry in the main page.

April 19, 1996
Playing with Photoshop and Pixelsight, I experimented and produced this page. The Photoshop images are not here--they turned out as a wholly distasteful jumble of over-filtered images. Pixelsight, however, provides the nice buttons (an excellent site for sharp web graphics for novices).

Here you'll find the basic format of the primary page that I would keep for a long time (well, long in web-time). One new element in the engineering of this page is the inclusion of the ALT attribute with the IMG tag. In my opinion, no IMG should be without ALT.

You'll also find a little Java applet which cruelly interferes with what's printed in the status bar. I have since removed this monstrosity from the page. It's not nearly as annoying as the status bar scrolling Javascript, but I tend to get really annoyed when I don't know where I'm going (Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 needs to fix^* this).

August 28, 1996
Following enrollment in a Digital Art course for which I created the Eyes That Last I Saw In Tears project, I began a more extensive experimentation with Photoshop. The results form the banners for each page of my site, also archived for your enjoyment(?).

In addition to the ALT attributes, I added WIDTH and HEIGHT attributes, which allow the browser to preformat the layout of the page before actually displaying the images. While this may or may not speed up the loading of the page (the subject is quite heatedly debated in the HTML authoring newsgroups), it also provides proper formatting of my page should someone visit with Image Loading turned off.

---

^* While Microsoft corrected their initial mistake--providing the cryptic "Shortcut to history" in the status bar instead of a full http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~hsiao/about/history/--the latest version of Internet Explorer, IE4 has a horrible problem where the unconfigurable status bar now has other elements to obscure the URL. Feh.