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Adam Kleinberg
From the Vault: My 1st Website
by Adam Kleinberg
I just found a screen shot from the very first website I ever worked on. It was an e-commerce site for SGI to sell their fancy new Visual Workstations and the world's first-ever flat panel display monitor back in 1997.
I worked on site at Silicon Graphics' faboo HQ — which is now the Googleplex — for four months.
This site was pretty groovalicious at the time. See that butterfly on the monitor? That was a rollover graphic.
I was a production artist/junior designer at the time and I can still remember the painstaking work that went into creating the left navigation rollovers. I used transparent GIFs that had to be individually aliased over the gradient background on sub-level pages. Oh, the joy of being a pixel-pusher.
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Tom Cunniff
Pretty cool, Adam. I was heavy in digital by 1997 and this is way more sophisticated than most sites looked at that time. Good stuff.
Adam Kleinberg
Thanks, Tom. I built some serious chops on that puppy. We'd build the entire 400 page site, they'd have a meeting, the client would change the entire navigation, and then we'd rebuild it again. Must have built that site five times.
Alex Duke
Very impressive for '97. I remember using transparent GIFs to indent paragraphs and thinking I was SO clever.
Adam Kleinberg
I remember using transparent GIFs for everything. Adam
Finny
Agree that was pretty cool for the time! I was doing their media then lol! It was a great client.