October 1999
My pages took a little bit of an artistic detour in 1999,
as I discovered graphics packages. Unfortunately, at the
time, I really didn't have the skill to properly construct
the graphics (as you can see from my attempts).
The main new elements I added was animated
GIF files, which added a little bit of movement to the page.
By present standards it looks pretty basic, but at the time
it looked state-of-the-art. I've included a few of the animated
GIF files, if you're interested (of course I didn't do them
with transparent backgrounds at the time, as I didn't know
about such things):





At the I decided to try and generate some
distinctive graphics which would give the WWW site an original
feel. Thus I drew the little animated GIF below. It's hardly
the best logo in the world but it has some nice gentle colours
in it. As I have said previously, I did not know about transparent
backgrounds, so it has a blue background to fit in with
the index frame on the WWW pages.
<img
src="IMAGES/home.gif"
width="57" height="50" border="0"
align="right">
The graphic itself is 192x211, thus this is
very inefficient, as the full resolution of the graphic
is sent. A much better solution would have been to scale
the graphic down to 57x50, as this is the resolution at
which it is displayed.

Something that was quite distinctive was the
graphic with covers from my books. It looks a bit dated
now, but it look really good then. Here's a copy:

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