The Look of Tinotopia

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The Look of Tinotopia

Tinotopia's look is the direct descendant of a design I happened upon in 1994 when I was trying to develop something that would look good in text browsers and also in Netscape. The current design does not look good in text browsers, but then there are a lot fewer people using them these days.

It eventually wound up looking something like the image below, in mid-2000.

When a disk failure prompted a complete revision of the website, I decided to follow a different route. I had been maintaining the site with Dreamweaver, and I found that I spent at least as much time screwing around with the looks of the pages (and manually maintaining links, etc.) as I did actually adding information to them.

In the fall of 2000, I switched to Trellix, an information manager that's been rejiggered to produce websites, and the result is what you see before you. I now spend my time just updating content. Since it's fairly simple to change the looks of minor graphical elements, I do that from time to time. Here's the gallery of Slanty T Devices and Tinotopia banners that have been used since the fall of 2000:

The short-lived first banner. It was replaced within a week. The 'It's my world etc.' legend reflects the Tinocentric universe of the website.

Introduced in October, 2000. I think that this remains my favorite so far, and that I'll re-use it this fall.

Used around Christmastime, 2000.

January-March 2001. I am also rather fond of this one.

March 2001. The background here is a photograph of the Northern Lights. It looks like hell, though, when used as a background and was thus short-lived.

Used from roughly April-June 2001.

In use from June 2001. Replaced for a couple weeks in July by the fireworks banner. When the cash banner came back, the original accompanying cash slanty T (the background is from a Danish banknote) was replaced with a four-colored geometric-backgrounded slanty T, harking back to the pre-Tinotopia days.

Used in early July, 2001.

And the Slanty Ts, in order. The T generally changes at the same time as the banner.

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	[time wastage] The Look of Tinotopia Tinotopia's look is the direct descendant of a design I happened upon in 1994 when I was trying to develop something that would look good in text browsers and also in Netscape. The current design does not look good in text browsers, but then there are a lot fewer people using them these days. It eventually wound up looking something like the image below, in mid-2000. When a disk failure prompted a complete revision of the website, I decided to follow a different route. I had been maintaining the site with Dreamweaver, and I found that I spent at least as much time screwing around with the looks of the pages (and manually maintaining links, etc.) as I did actually adding information to them. In the fall of 2000, I switched to Trellix, an information manager that's been rejiggered to produce websites, and the result is what you see before you. I now spend my time just updating content. Since it's fairly simple to change the looks of minor graphical elements, I do that from time to time. Here's the gallery of Slanty T Devices and Tinotopia banners that have been used since the fall of 2000: The short-lived first banner. It was replaced within a week. The 'It's my world etc.' legend reflects the Tinocentric universe of the website. Introduced in October, 2000. I think that this remains my favorite so far, and that I'll re-use it this fall. Used around Christmastime, 2000. January-March 2001. I am also rather fond of this one. March 2001. The background here is a photograph of the Northern Lights. It looks like hell, though, when used as a background and was thus short-lived. Used from roughly April-June 2001. In use from June 2001. Replaced for a couple weeks in July by the fireworks banner. When the cash banner came back, the original accompanying cash slanty T (the background is from a Danish banknote) was replaced with a four-colored geometric-backgrounded slanty T, harking back to the pre-Tinotopia days. Used in early July, 2001. And the Slanty Ts, in order. The T generally changes at the same time as the banner.
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