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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 - 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. Message Impossible January 24, 2003
- MyNovato.com directory for downtown Novato California - MyNovato.com Feb 16, 2003
- Designed an ecommerce site for Ellis Gold and AwesomeRoses.com Awesome Roses
- AnswerSleuth.com - My 1,000,000 directory of the internet. AnswerSleuth.com Jan. 18, 2001
- An example results page about the science of Sindonology - 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 - 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 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 640×480 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. |  |
Interesting things I found in the archives of my websites
- Early version of AnswerSleuth, called “Ask The 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: Research on Teddy Bears saved by WebSleuth 1.0
- I even had some resellers - 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