Adam Norwood

Bits & Pieces (asnorwood.com circa 2003)

This was the principal look and layout of my personl site circa 2002–2006. Content was limited to my portfolio of art, sketches, and some design work, along with basic contact and bio info. While I hadn’t gotten up to speed with web standards by 2003 (the layout was all tables and presentational tags, oh no!), the site was entirely written in homemade PHP, using image file metadata to handle the portfolio and navigation. As far as I know, it was also one of the earliest uses of the “CSS repeat-x with single-pixel-wide images gradient background effect” on the web. (At the time I thought I had invented the technique…maybe I did? Nah.)