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The Details: Sept 2002-Sept 2004.
After seeing some of my friends starting their own LiveJournals and Blogger pages, I decided to jump on the blogging bandwagon. After all, many of my college friends had moved out of town—or out of state.

My "details page" went from being hardcoded to being designed partly in Dreamweaver. When my computer suffered a power supply failure after a winter storm, I integrated LiveJournal into my design and began using it for my blog, instead of straight HTML and CSS.

Unfortunately, when I moved to Movable Type, the LJ entries converted much more easily than my HTML entries. I have yet to import most of my entries prior to January 2004.

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Portfolio (v3): Spring 2001.
Created for a final assignment in VCT 480: Multimedia/Web Development. The design dovetails with the Director-based portfolio created the same semester in VCT 466: Principles of Multimedia Production.

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Catching up with Diana: Spring 2001.
A blatant rip-off of my friend Timmay's journal-esque personal site. Had I realized what a trend the journal-esque site (aka "blog") would become, I would certainly have stayed on top of it, rather than letting myself be website-less for a year and a half.

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Di's Un-egotistical Homepage: 1998-2000.
My original Un-egotistical Homepage got hosed when Angelfire had a server crash, and I had no backup of my site. My personal page never really recovered after that. I honestly don't remember what it looked like before the crash—probably less graphical, but with more content. Very late-90's.

Di and Amy's Bootleg Variety Pak: Nov 1997-May 2001.
My then-boyfriend Aaron introduced my college roommate and myself to the concept of trading live shows on the internet, and supplied us with a Smashing Pumpkins show and a Mighty Mighty Bosstones show, respectively. Over the next four years, we pooled our resources in order to get a higher number of trades than either could have alone. (I actually had created a keen title graphic that looked like the Kellogg's cereal variety packs, only with the logos of our favorite bands. Sadly, this logo is now lost.)

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Portfolio (v2): 1999-2000.
My first attempt at a visually stylized web-based portfolio, rather than a bare-bones, functional, resume-style portfolio. I was particularly proud of the little icons I created for the various sections; as I recall, either they or something like them made an appearance in a Director-based portfolio I made for a multimedia class later on.

Cook-Sharits Genealogy: 2000-2001.
A repository for all my genealogical research online. After having found so much information online, I decided to post what I had, in the hopes that someone might find it useful.

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Di's Mighty Mighty Resource: 1997-2000.
My token fangirl site. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones were my absolute favorite band in 1997 and thereabouts, so I set forth to catalog all I could about the band.

Most of the links on this archived page are broken now, as the band broke up several years ago, and many fans (myself included) lost interest even before that.

Di's Drumcorps Shrine: 1997-1999.
Yet another page that never quite reached its full potential. I had started a drumcorps purity test, and had planned to add many more photos and links to my favorite corps' sites. Unfortunately, this site ended up like many of my other sites: a repository of links, with no real content or design.Hey, it was 1997. That was normal.

Portfolio (v1): 1998.
This was my first attempt at a portfolio page, having just completed several NISDM video-editing seminars and needing to land some cooperative education gigs. I wasn't overly concerned about the design (I'm recognizing a trend here), but I was very proud of my javascript mouseOver descriptions of the websites I'd created.

A History of Audio Recording: 1997-1998.
During a weekend of thrifting, I believe, Aaron happened across a Playtape machine. The process of helping him identify this miniature 8-track-looking tape—and my interest in Recording Technology in general—made me curious about what other formats once existed. So, I did some research and created this very 1997-looking site, just because. Chock full of information, not so much on design flair.