Version Six Major Site Update - New site released! A new version finally goes live. After many hours, days, months, and (yes) years of procrastination, or more accurately, other priorities taking up my time, I finally re-launched the site.

Version Five Site pulldown, temporary page. What was meant to be a temporary downtime in January 2007 turned into a major renovation, with no time for the shoemaker to make his children's shoes. In other words - other priorities were taking up my time. Don't get me wrong, these weren't misguided priorities - my wife was pregnant with our twin girls and my son was absolutely joyous to watch grow. So as the analogy goes, the web professional has little time to work on the web (outside his professional job, that is). I used a .NET Starter Kit design my friend Kevin Goldman created. Originally I was just using it to play around with some coding tests, but ended up publishing a couple pages using the design. This was the only vincebrooks.com design not designed by me.

Version Four New site design goes active.

Almost everything is new. New site design. New content. New search engine. New showcase projects. New cybernetic legs that make those "boing-boing-boing" Six Million Dollar Man sounds. New attitude.

New, new, new.
Better... Stronger... Faster.

Designed and coded most of this while driving around the country during my roadtrip. Also used Macromedia Dreamweaver's version of what .NET now calls Master Pages. Made for much easier global and resusable elements management.

Version Three New site design launched. Using classic ASP (with include files!). Much of the content is rendered dynamically using Active Server Pages (ASP). The portfolio section uses a single pop-up window page and generates content dynamically by passing querystrings and a single include file. Common variables throughout the site (menus, address, copyright) are set in a linked file and written to the page on the server before appearing in the browser. The top and bottom sections of the pages are set in two files and then included in each section page file. This makes it easy to maintain, as any sitewide changes can be made in only a few files. Technologies used: ASP, Access, DHTML, JavaScript, Flash

Thinking back on the site, it was fairly cutting edge for the time, but is oh-so-dated now.

Party like it's 1999 The vincebrooks.com domain is acquired and goes live with a single 'coming soon' page that linked to an old version of the site.

Version Two Complete overhaul and redesign of site, with lots of new portfolio content.

Version One First Incarnation of vincebrooks.com goes live. Technically not even on the vincebrooks.com domain, it was a user section on a now defunct shared hosting provider called Halcyon/Northwest Nexus.