Historical Documents
I don't think it's been decided whether the internet is the best place to keep your anonymous secrets or the worst place as it's always stored somewhere. But I've never been one for having dirty little secrets.
I keep this portion of my web site to host old web pages and presentations to show a record of where I was and how far I've come. Some of these were done for fun and others for school, but all are retired documents. Here they are warts and all in chronological order.
This was the very first web site I ever built, a fansite for the British band Bush. It was originally built in 1999 with a clunky WYSIWYG editor and hosted on Tripod. Those were the days. I learned html and how to handcode in Notepad because I wanted to this site better and bigger. It was a labor of love. It closed in 2002 when I went to college.
This site was built in the Fall 2002 for a Communications 101 class at the University of Puget Sound. The class centered around how drug abuse is portrayed in the media. For my final project, I came up with a "dummy" website as a way of marketing an anti-drug message to youth without feeling outdate. In a way, this website showed the promise of social networking and web 2.0 in the days right before the MySpace and Facebook phenomena.
This was a Power Point Presentation which I put together in Fall 2003 for an Oceanography class about Sea Turtles. I hadn't had excessive experience with Power Point, but my love of turtles drove me on.
Only works in IE.
Another Power Point Presentation, this one created in Spring 2003 for a Colonial Latin America History class about a
Camile Argentinean film. This was a group project, but I put together the Power Point for everyone and did the main part about the film and gender.
Only works in IE.
This was the fastest website I ever built in that I turned it around in 2-days. I made it in Spring 2005 for my Irish Literature class on a selection from Joyce's
Ulysses. (Yes, I have read the entire book.) It was my first real venture into hypertextual linking and I have to admit I did not spend the time on it that I should've. It was finals' week after all.
This web site was built in Summer 2005 for a group project on earthquake renovations for a geology class. I was the sole web builder and editor and also contributed the content sections which bear my name. All other information was gathered from group members. It documents the weeks we spent renovating two different Tacoma, Washington daycare centers. This site also documents some of my first experiences using CSS, which I grew to adore after some struggles.
