barkingmoose

While rummaging around the very limited archives I have of sites I’ve worked on in the past, I used the Wayback Machine and found something I thought was gone for good—the corporate website for Virtus from back in 1998. It was the first major redesign of a site that I oversaw as a “webmaster,” and I think it holds up well today (even if the company didn’t fare as well). The cute little 600 pixel-wide table layout was probably a little graphic-heavy for the times, but I didn’t have the heart to fight my creative director.

My boss at the time made me write the names of every page in the site on index cards, tack them to the wall and connect the tacks with yarn to create something he could visualize and comment on. I wonder if he spackled the holes over after they laid off the entire marketing department.

I’m involved in another redesign right now for another software company (which also starts with the letter “V”), and it’s still probably my favorite part of what I do. Ripping down something old and tired to replace it with something new, smarter and streamlined. Closely related is the thing I enjoy least: passing a site off to someone, then visiting six months later to see how they’ve mangled the thing.

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