The Blue Cathedral

Does anyone here remember my first attempt at a website/blog. It was before those big blogging sites had caught on. (You know, like xanga or blogger.) It was called the Blue Cathedral. I coded the entire thing in HTML (no fancy backend like I use now), and I was just learning about fun things like CSS. I was pretty proud of how the site looked back then, though.

So, today, I got curious. The files for the site were long ago lost in some hard drive format, but thankfully there is archive.org to the rescue. I looked up the old bdwhite.com, and there it was, in all its former glory:

Blue Cathedral v2.0

This is actually the second iteration to the site (after I had learned about CSS and no longer used tables for all my html formating). I think the design has stood up well over time. The other things I especially like, are being able to check out the old "sister sites" of mine. Head to the "Entertainment" link and click on "BC Anime" or "Felix-Fansubs". While I'm still into anime...I was really into it then. The BC Anime expose on "What is anime" is espcially fanboyish. :-)

Once again, though, I think the designs for these sites are pretty good even now...if not a little oversaturated in blue. But it was the Blue Cathedral, after all.

I really need to pull those sites off of archive.org to save them for myself. They're kind of fun pieces of memorabilia.

P.S. funny to see I was still promising new chapters of elixir even then!

P.P.S. double comment points to anyone who can tell me which song the header's tagline comes from.