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Design?

In early 2001 I discovered that most of this site looked terrible with newer browsers & larger monitors than it was designed for. Why can't one just file and forget?

These are some of the other designs I've worked on instead of this. The NMD site achieves a set of design goals I've had all along:

  • it's ridiculously over-featured if you have a fast enough machine and connection;
  • it seems to degrade gracefully if you don't; and
  • it works perfectly in Lynx.
Notional Missile Defence 2001 The Notional Missile Defence initiative. A possibly over-planned effort to deploy sarcasm in the service of survival.
 
The Rate for the Job 2000 The Rate for the Job: a fresh-start subset of the 1995 NUJ/LFB site. All spat out by the eccentric and wonderful free-text database program Idealist.
 
Reed Breadwinners' Information 1998 Reed Breadwinners' Information - rejected in favour of a corporate-stylee design. Hrmph.
 
International Freelance 1998 International Freelance site for the Freelance Experts' Group of the International Federation of Journalists.
 
Within Reach 1997 Within Reach Built as "the samizdat organisation of the NUJ and GPMU unions" in what was then a hostile corporation. That'd need rewritten now that all companies are officially union-friendly, and will be if the local union officials get around to providing content.
 
NUJ London Freelance Branch 1995... NUJ London Freelance Branch. One of the very first UK trade union sites on the Web in the Summer of 1995. The "official" NUJ site is due to launch in the Summer of 2001, when this will mutate into the Branch site. Like this one, it's a design museum: I quite deliberately maintain pages the way looked when they were first posted, updating to make the same effects work in newer browsers where necessary.