History of Adam Dimech Online
Adam Dimech's website was launched in July 1998, initially as an experiment. From there it eventually grew to encompass a blog, photo gallery and numerous information sites. This page shows how the website has looked since its launch.
January 1999
The oldest retained version of the website. The site was hosted with Tripod at //members.tripod.com/~dimech. Pop-up ads were par-for-the-course with free hosting in those days and to make matters worse, this design also made use of <blink> tags!
August 1999
Tables were first utilised to arrange content and graphics used to promote key sites via image maps. This site took about 10 seconds to load on a 56kbps modem!
November 2000
A cleaner look for the new millenium. I didn't have dedicated hosting available, so a cloaking subdomain URL was used: www.adonline.au.nu. Sites were variously hosted on Tripod, GeoCities and Telstra BigPond.
August 2002
Unlike the simpler designs of the past, this made better use of colours and graphics. There was no blog software at this stage, so all stories were hand-coded with Microsoft Front Page and uploaded as static HTML pages.
September 2002
This text-rich design was a modification of the previous version, utilising more graphics. More importantly, it marked the launch of the website on its own domain - www.adonline.id.au
February 2008
Following a switch in web hosts, this design represented a radical departure from the past, with a "grunge" style and more personalised look.
August 2009
The August 2009 look was adopted with richness of colour and longevity in mind. This was the first version designed with Microsoft Expression Web.
December 2013
After more than four years, the website was redesigned with new colours and a responsive design that enables the website to be viewed on mobile devices and tablets as well as desktop computers. The code comprises of valid HTML5 and CSS3 and a sincere attempt has been made to make the site as accessible as possible.