Sea Lion 0.1:

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Run Time: Sept. 22 - 27, 2000

Host: Redrival

# Pages: 164

Tools: notepad, Paint Shop Pro 6.0

If not for Unadorned--which didn't run at all--this version would have been up for the least amount of time: 6 days. I messed up. I didn't thoroughly check this layout in Netscape and there was an unsightly gap on some pages. I chose to scrap this design and start a new one.

Candy Palmer's old site had a cat that did all the talking. The idea of a second voice appealed to me; thus brain was born. He's a little shy. [brain: How you doin?] Please don't hit on the visitors, brain. [brain: What if I just hump their leg?] I don't even want to know how a brain could manage that...

Further Mistakes:

• Having nekos and foxes link back to the home page is one thing, having the bird=home, sealion=parent index, seaweed=top of page, well, that's too much.
• Continuing to use <br>s instead of a <dl> in the menu.
• Listing the sections and what's in them without linking to those sections when I'm talking about them.
• Left links section in frames for no reason.
• The layout itself is not very attractive. :p

Sections:

• News
• Jester - (sub)
• Writing -
  • Poetry - (sub)
  • Essays - (sub)
  • Short Stories - (sub)
  • Monologues - (sub)
  • Wanderings - (sub) scraps of unfinishable writing
• Art Gallery - (sub)
• Brain Dump - (sub)
• Site Info - I messed with cursors for the first time so it had a helpful question mark. To-do list, quote archive, and a "mission statement" appeared.
  • Portfolio - (sub) moved here, but still linked to in Random Chaos. I talked about my goal with each layout and the result.
  • Sitemap - a bulleted text list with dates.
• MSKing - changed to MSKing. I was hoping to get people familiar with my name.
  • Rants - (sub)
• Links - (sub) still in frames. Why?
• Random Chaos - (sub) switched to this layout.
  • Color World - (sub)