This is the history of the ASimWeb....a remarkable site now being maintained with Microsoft FrontPage 2000. It wasn't always that way, however. Read on.
The original page created with AOL's Personal Publisher, version 2 I believe, in 1996. Not much to look at, but to see it, click here. I later came across a demo of Microsoft Publisher, which let me make websites. Too bad it expired 45 days after I started using, but it gave me a better site, I think. To see that, click here. Later, I created a new screen name on my AOL account, ASimWeb, which would serve all my web page needs. I started using AOL's free editor, AOL Press, which is good. I created the layout that can still be seen today, but in a different form. I created a frame layout for the page, and frames actually used to be incredibly popular, but fell out of favor as shared borders came, and frames could also just be plain annoying. Anyhow, I later came across the product that would make this site the site it is today: Microsoft FrontPage 98. I had always read about it in PC Magazine, but I could never afford it.......it's almost $150. Well, they had a 45-day beta version of 98 available, so I got it, despite the fact the members.aol.com server didn't support (and still doesn't) FrontPage extensions, which lets me use the really nifty features of FrontPage. Well, I imported all the pages, and everything worked well, and continued to do so. 'Till the trial version expired, that is. I was without FrontPage, and unsure of what to do. I asked for FrontPage 98 for my birthday (in 1997), and to my surprise, actually got it.
Later in 1997, I started searching for free hosting services that would host my site for free, with FrontPage extensions compatibility. It turned up nothing. It wasn't 'till last year, I think, I finally found what I was searching for. The place's name was Tripod. The only thing that got me was that my address would still be in the members dot format, but it was better than those painfully long Geocities addresses. Anyhow, I began to move and publish my site to Tripod. It still looked the same, it just was fasted and easier to publish. To see what the site looked like at the time, click here.
Then I noticed the site wasn't really working the way I'd wanted it to, and some parts I had never updated (such as the ill-fated Savage Garden area). I then proceeded to wipe out everything on my Tripod account, and then started a new web in FrontPage, and imported only what I needed. Then I started really making changes......such as getting rid of that slow-loading opening page, and the frames....and then there was a really drastic change.....the application of themes, which are included in FrontPage. In case you haven't noticed, all of the pages have the same look and feel, and that is thanks to the theme I selected (I did not do these graphics myself!). Now, it's all cool, and I hope to someday have over a thousand visitors. Someday...........
Well, just a correction to the fourth paragraph: as stated on the first page, the ASimWeb does have a new address, http://asimweb.tripod.com. And I use FrontPage 2000 now.