Javascripts.com

It was originally the home site of Click here! The Internet Company. We'd been doing sub work for them for a bit (i.e., they'd present an html mock-up of the site and specs and we'd bring the site to completion including html, programming, etc and they'll hire an artist to workup final graphics) when they asked a question. They asked if we'd like to overhaul JavaScripts.com to bring in more traffic.

JavaScripts.com was reborn sometime around March of '97 (or there abouts). It was our first high traffic site, so we made several mistakes. One of them was relying so heavily on dynamic cgi to give the place a living, breathing feel. (This experience is directly responsible for the "ghtml" design of Intrafoundation packages -- html generated on a need-only basis.) It underwent a few major revisions from time to time as I, my web-based programming experience expanding on other projects, realized how truly horrible the JavaScripts.com code was.

There was at one time plans for a major revision of the site, but nothing ever became of them because of a general lack of time imposed by other projects. After ties with Click here! had been severed around the beginning of the '98, the website was apparently sold to developer.com. I was offered the position of webmaster over it, but was not enthusiastic about rejoining an affiliation with Click here! at the time so I passed. Eventually, after about a year of siting on the developer.com machines, they hired Paul Summers (a friend of mine from Canada) to retouch -- or gut depending on how you look at it :) -- the site.

There were several other people who worked on the Javascripts.com site as well in it's later days. It should be known that from time to time a few of the "avatars" or other programmers hanging around in those days would come in and tweak the site while I we were otherwise busy.

Mike Page (aka Supercool) was responsible for the most memorable refinements. He brought to the table the concept and code of emailing a user's password to their registered email address. Duh! He was the closest thing to an assistant webmaster that the site had as I recall.

The only two other "helpers" I can remember that the owners ever let caress the site code were Paul Summers (aka Prowl of whiteflame.com) who Earthweb recently gave the job of webmaster and Kurt Anderson (of andersonhouse.com fame) who introduced the concept of actually trying to get people to advertise on the site.