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MarkScudder.org 2003

The 2003 blog design was an exercise in simplicity; I needed a sharp-looking front page and a basic template for content, but wasn't yet able to finish a full-page dynamically-resizing site.  There was a running theme of frustration in the blog entries at this time, which made the "facepalm" image work there.  It was taken by candlelight with an old digital point-and-shoot camera, in an unrelated photo shoot.

The other elements on the front page are absolute positioning, but anchored either top or bottom, sometimes with percentages, to keep them even no matter how big or small the browser window is.

The blog was custom-coded in PHP as I couldn't find a content management system at the time that would allow this level of theming for the same amount of work.  It also didn't need an elaborate user-friendly backend because I was the only author.

The inside pages were largely a basic gray and black template focusing on content.  Most of these were static content, with the copy typed right into a PHP file that called the code that created the template with PHP include() statements.