A new client needed a website, and I suggested he use an easy online website builder. I could help him get it started, then turn it over to him to maintain.

He asked me for a portfolio of my websites. Huh?  I used to own more than 400 domain names. I aint asking to do anything like that for you.  I am just getting you started on building a website using a simple website builder. I ain't intending on designing any templates or doing any graphic design beyond maybe resizing your existing photos.  If you do some laughable thing for me to laugh at, I might remember to get out my camera phone and shoot a photo of it. Beyond that, you are on your own!

But I got to thinking about some of my past projects, and thought I might put together a short list of fun stuff. 

===== Current Website Projects =====

  * Donut Inspired - the combination of donuts and motivation. As of June 2019, it is hosted on GoDaddy website builder. It irks me that I am probably paying by the month to maintain it there. I am just not irked enough yet to move it to something on my own server. https://www.donutinspired.com . - Yeah I know its really distracting to try and read the home screen text with a background pic that is a large array of donuts.

===== Links to the past =====
  * My first website, an archive copy from December 12, 1996 - [[http://www.webmill.com/archive.org/1996-12-28/index.htm|Early home page of Web Mill]]
  * www.MySleepCenter.com - I used to own a lot of domains with names patterned like this. This was one of the best factual websites about how to get a good nights sleep and about sleep disorders in the early pre-WebMD days of the web. Here is a link to Feb 08, 2006 version of the site: https://web.archive.org/web/20060208200324/http://mysleepcenter.com/
  * www.GarnetChaney.com - My personal website with all kinds of editorial and humorous articles. https://web.archive.org/web/20030210132358/http://garnetchaney.com/
  * I invented a snap chat type site that allowed users to send self destructing messages to each other. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20030124102537/http://messageimpossible.com/|Message Impossible]] January 24, 2003
  * MyNovato.com directory for downtown Novato California - [[https://web.archive.org/web/20030216135622/http://www.mynovato.com/|MyNovato.com]] Feb 16, 2003
  * Designed an ecommerce site for Ellis Gold and AwesomeRoses.com [[https://web.archive.org/web/20030217000800/http://awesomeroses.com/|Awesome Roses]]
  * AnswerSleuth.com - My 1,000,000 directory of the internet. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20010118201500/http://answersleuth.com/|AnswerSleuth.com]] Jan. 18, 2001
    * An example results page about the science of Sindonology - [[https://web.archive.org/web/20010129001000/http://answersleuth.com/bible/turin/sindonology.shtml|The AnswerSleuth looks at Sindonology]]
  * Yet another search directory I built, this one working with one of the first purveyor's of pay per click search results - [[https://web.archive.org/web/20020124151828/http://www.find11.com/|Find11]]


So many other things to add:
  * trulyopendirectory.com, sitemaker, amazon book stores, sample ebay ads for collectible book stores, twatsleuth, oojas.


===== My First Selfie of My Cat Katya and I =====
| This was possibly the first digital picture I ever took. It was taken with the [[https://www.cnet.com/news/the-icamera-a-look-back-at-apples-first-digital-camera/|Apple QuickTake 100]] that Apple brought to market in 1994, just in time for the beginning of the World Wide Web. " Fully automatic and sold as an easy-to-use digital camera for consumers, one of the first available." It had a 640x480 maximum resolution, 1MB of ram, and at the setting I used it could hold 16 photographs, enough to "fill the screen on the 13-inch VGA monitors of the day."  This is a picture of me and my cat Katya. |  {{thegarnet:earliest_digital_picture_katya_and_me.gif?429|Photo of Garnet and Katya, used as a logo on www.garnetchaney.com}} |


===== Interesting things I found in the archives of my websites =====
  * Early version of AnswerSleuth, called "Ask The WebSleuth" - [[https://web.archive.org/web/19980118002756/http://webmill.com/WebSleuth/|List of Ask The WebSleuth topics]]- A list of about 100 topics I researched just for fun with the metasearch software I had written. 
    * Example page: [[https://web.archive.org/web/19980117225022/http://webmill.com/WebSleuth/new/teddybear.shtml| Research on Teddy Bears saved by WebSleuth 1.0]]
    
  * I even had some resellers - [[https://web.archive.org/web/19980118000832/http://webmill.com/lease|The Web Mill Business District Leasing Office]]

  * A partial listing by topic, of just some of the websites that I owned. Feb 7, 2003 - [[https://web.archive.org/web/20030207231439/http://webmill.com/domains_by_topic.htm]]

  * My collection of eBooks I scanned was one of the first online collections of eBooks, over 400 ebooks online - [[https://web.archive.org/web/20030207225149/http://www.webmill.com/books/]]
    * [[https://web.archive.org/web/20030301000325/http://www.webmill.com/books/notfinished.8.shtml]] - request list for what people want to see next