dominicself.co.uk
My Site
Original design
Original website design
This site has been evolving for a few years now and currently plays host to my blog, amongst other little bits and pieces. I purchased the domain name in January 2004 from me2uweb and upgraded to a hosting package a few months later, moving away from Geocities. I've had no problems with this company and their service has been great, highly recommended!

Previous version
2004 incarnation of the blog

A design revamp was introduced at the end of July 2004 when my blog was fully integrated into the rest of the site. I write everything in Notepad (yes, really) including my HTML and CSS code, while my blog is handled by Nucleus which replaced Blogger in November 2004. It may have started out as a FrontPage (urgh) template, but now validates to XHTML 1.0. Special thanks to BlogFuel and Magpie for their help with syndicating my blog's RSS feed.

A year later in July 2005 I took advantage of the long summer holiday to completely redesign the site, recoding from the ground up. The result is what you see before you now. It's cleaner and more modern than the old site, valid XHTML and tested in the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera. The beta version launched on 1st August.

Latest revamp, showing some of the visual changes
Latest revamp, showing some of the visual changes
Aside from a few tweaks here and there, it wasn't until August 2007 that I next revamped the website, mainly to distract myself from looming exam results. Aside from some reorganisation and colour shifts, the main change is the new Flash-based photo gallery feature, allowing photos to be easily displayed all over the site.

So enjoy your visit, and do feel free to contact me using the handy contact form.