AdBrad Evolution

I’ve come a long way in the last two years of building web sites. I made my first site spring semester of my sopho­more year and I just fin­ished my most recent one last week. It will be switched over soon, I promise. I’m switching hosting and it’s a mess right now.

Because I’m switching hosts (finally ditching GoDaddy for Hostgator) I’ve been going through all my old files to back every­thing up. It’s ter­ri­fying to see what I used to think was worth showing people. I think you should always be able to look back and realize how far you’ve come. If you’re not better now, you’re not pushing your­self. So, get ready to laugh. Here comes two years of rough AdBrad site screen­shots. From hard-coded HTML to finally now all WordPress, it’s been quite a journey.

I was recently nom­i­nated in the Best Blog Design cat­e­gory of the 2009 Okie Blog Awards, so I guess I’m get­ting better at this (you should go vote for me if you’re an Oklahoma blogger!). And now that I’m working for WebDesign.com and iThemes Media, I’ll be doing a lot more web design in the future so maybe I’ll look back and hate this site too. We’ll see.

Some of these link to the orig­i­nals, but most will break by next week when I clean off my storage, so get to them quickly or just enjoy the screen­shots. There are a lot, so click the <more> tag to see them all. Be glad I only included the most devel­oped ones. There were plenty more single pages that never got developed.

Those are the first two. Click for more if you can bear to look at the rest.

And here’s the cur­rent. Never the final, but the cur­rent. Here’s to con­stantly improving yourself.