The Old (sigh): 
Sadly, old V.1.0 is being retired to pixel pasture. Despite three years prior experience, building this site from scratch taught me a lot about web technology. Using Frontpage 98, Adobe GoLive, CorelDraw & Photopaint, Gif Construction Set, and a smattering of hand-coded html and Javascript, I was able to post a fairly impressive website with which to communicate with current and future clients. 

The site included a great little animated pencil, dropping from the sky in a DHTML layer along a timeline path, mouse-overs presenting selected graphics, a pop-up info window, and an ill-advised midi music file.  For better or worse, some of these don't quite cut it in the W3C Web Standards world of Netscape 7.0 and IE 6.5. 

But the most important lessons resulted from  having myself as client. I was demanding, picky and slow to give final approvals when necessary. When I finally launched the site, I received  interesting and useful insight into the ways of new web surfers, levels of computer and web savvy, usability, accessibility and compatibility. 

Old V.1.0 may be decommissioned but I think I'll keep a link for a while. If you are curious, have a peak.

www.cableregina.com/business/
bruce.weild/index-v1.htm

The New Bruce 2002: Shiny new V.2.0 has big screens to fill. It is intended to focus more directly on my current projects and clients while also testing my design and technical skills. It is a centered layout designed to expand or contract to fit the visitor's screen (ie: 800x600 to 1024x768).

It employs a few new bells and whistles of its own. You will first see a popup welcome window which will automatically close after 15 seconds. A sexy DHTML dropdown menu kicks off navigation.

Text-based Navigation headers and footers throughout the rest of the site consist of Server-side includes for ease of maintenance, and text navigation links using cascading style sheets (mouseover images not required). The auto-resizing background image uses a bit of sleight-of-html-hand.

The slick images conveyor belt stops when you mouse over and links to specific pages in the site if you wish. Unfortunately the animation feature is not completely functional in Netscape 4.x yet. It does degrade well though. 

Otherwise, the site has  tested positively in Netscape 4.08, 4.72, 7.0, and IE 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0.

I've created a What's New page, a News & Events page, and each major section in the portfolio is more or less chronological from top to bottom. I've also done some housecleaning and re-optimized a lot of my images to improve both performance and visuals.

what-lately.shtml
print.shtml
web.shtml
illustration.shtml
logos.shtml
ads.shtml
misc.shtml

The launch of v.1.0 brought interesting result and I look forward to your reaction to v.2.0.

So far focus testing has been very positive. Should you discover any problems, bad links, typos etc. or have suggestions, please let me know.

Thanks/ Bruce Weild