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Vintage Schumin WebSometimes it's interesting to see where you've been when evaluating where you stand, as well as what direction you want to head in. And let me tell you... in the more than seven years in running this site, I've been through a lot of different designs, let me tell you. Between the launch and 1999, when I began seriously keeping archives of stuff, some redesigns were not archived. We limited full redesigns to once a year starting in 1999. Nonetheless, though, take a look... Original Design - March 23, 1996
Click the picture to see a mock-up of this original Web site! Note that originally, the site was not yet called The Schumin Web. High School Senior Year - Fall 1998
Throughout high school, my site was fairly crude-looking by my current standards. I had frames, and by the fall of 1998, when this version was recorded, the quote was in place, but there was no picture associated with it. Sadly, though, this quote was never archived. Note the way the site title looks. The logo had not yet been put in place! September 1999 to September 2000
Freedom from frames! This was one thing I did early on in my freshman year at JMU - redesign the Web site without frames. The logo is in place, and my picture was at the top of every page. Excessive? Yes. Mid-year, I did a minor overhaul, going from solid tan to blue skies, and put my picture in a little frame. September 2000 to June 2001
The 2000 redesign was the one that really revolutionized the site. Sections! Six of them... Main Event, Archives, College Life, Major Areas, Web Cam, Writings. Retired a LOT of old stuff with this redesign. This redesign also introduced www.schuminweb.com to the viewers, as I moved up in the world to a domain name at last. June 2001 to August 2002
In the 2001 redesign, the basic idea was a refinement of the 2000 design. We cleaned up the headers, we changed all the section logos, and really went circular with things, to give the 2001 design the the title "circles". August 2002 to July 2003
In 2002, we went for simplicity in our design. The menu was reduced to a scroll box at the top and bottom of each page. The sections were once again text links in a row. The logo "bug" in the corner of the screen was dropped. The colors were simple blue and white. I called this my "minimalist" design. This was also the first time I used an online focus group to assist in design ideas. July 2003 to October 2004
My redesigns seem to follow a two-year cycle. The first year, we really overhaul things, changing things around in a major way. The second year, we refine the design of the first, and improve based on feedback. This is a "second year" design, as we greatly improved on the "Minimalist" design from 2002. More color was added, the menus were enlarged, and the colors were faded from the blue header to the dark-cream page body. The menu at the bottom of the pages was removed, and replaced with a Google search for the first time. October 2004 to Present
In 2004, the design went back to something more traditional and more graceful, while retaining many improvements made over the previous two years. The scroll-box menu was done away with in favor of a left-side menu. The color scheme was changed to a blue-into-lighter-blue fade, which was originally a test color scheme from the 2003 redesign. Header images were reduced dramatically in size, with the final design leaving them far less elongated than before. For the first four months of this design, the main page carried the Quote. The Photo Feature replaced it in March 2005. |
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