The blog of David Brake
academic, consultant & journalist
About the blog | Ron Yeany
Waking up in Amsterdam!
Description: Double Feature I started doublefeature.com in 1996 with Marlin May. Double Feature housed several websites. "Friends at the Flicks" was where I did most of my writing. I posted movie reviews in a blog format, and my friends sent me comments via email which I posted under the main entry. This was before any content…
I started doublefeature.com in 1996 with Marlin May . Double Feature housed several websites. “Friends at the Flicks” was where I did most of my writing. I posted movie reviews in a blog format, and my friends sent me comments via email which I posted under the main entry. This was before any content management systems for blogs became popular, so this site was all home grown and manually maintained. All the original movie reviews have been migrated to this site, but the comments have been long lost to the
The version 1 design lasted only a couple months. I didn’t put a lot of time into this design, as I wasn’t quite sure if I would enjoy doing this new-fangled blogging thing. The scheme looked like permanent autumn. The navigation featured a calendar in the top left corner of the page. This became problematic and took up way too much real estate. The leather egg was featured prominently, and the leatheregg.com logotype was introduced. This used a variation of a font based on Michaelangelo’s handwriting for t
The version 2 design lasted about 8 months. I spent a lot of time on this design, and you can still see some of these pages if you venture into the year 2000 archives. I coined the term journalogue for this version, because the “is it a blog or is it a journal” debate was all the rage right around this time. This design was very table-intensive, and it just got to be a little too much to maintain. I was still maintaining the entire site manually in Dreamweaver, and at that time there was no easy solution if
The blog of David Brake
academic, consultant & journalist
About the blog | Ron Yeany
Waking up in Amsterdam!