Archive

My personal website

1995
My first home page
Designed on a 640x480 resolution Mac with 6Mb RAM, without the aid of tables or font tags, but wow, this new Netscape lets you put images in the background...
1996
Fabius
I'd forgotten about this extremely brief attempt to produce stuff for my site more regularly.
1998
First Gyford.com personal site
Went online in 1997 with this snapshot from the end of 1998. An attempt to do something more interesting, even if it broke some browsers, putting all essential content in a small pop-up box.
1999
Back to <H> tags
A welcome return to an extremely low maintenance page with less revealing content. This version is from April 1999 and I used the same format until the following year.
2000
A splash of colour
A better gateway to other stuff on the site.
Timeline
A more colourful and structured personal homepage from May 2000.
Daily Phil
A sample page from an attempt to write frequently. I usually hated the colours and design, but I was forcing myself to avoid monochrome. All the content has now been resurrected here (in monochrome).
2004
Long term home
The home page looked something like this for a few years, although increasing numbers of elements were added to it over time, the photos being most recent.
2005
Photos front page
How my archive of photos looked before moving them all to Flickr. Also: A collection front page and An individual photo page.

Other projects

1995
Digital Time
An early project to construct a timeline of computer- and net-related events. Aborted when I found far more exhaustive versions elsewhere.
1996
Fire
The cutting edge of digital news production, online around the world in minutes.
1998
Haddock Directory v1
A sample page from this design of the site (thanks to the Internet Archive). This design ran from the site's inception in late 1997 for about a year. Some images are missing unfortunately.
1999
Haddock Directory v2
This second design ran from 1998 to the end of 1999.
2003
Byliner
A non-functioning version of Byliner's first incarnation, which was online from March 1999 to January 2003.
Haddock Directory v3
The third design for the site, this one running from 1999 to June 2003. It had two alternative layouts for the categories.