Revisiting a (very) old project
For seven or eight years, I ran a website called Britlinks. Over that time, it grew from a simple list of links to bands’ sites gleaned from altavista and usenet postings, to a large database of music resources with well over a thousand pages, and a sizable chunk of traffic. It let me cut my teeth with databases (first mSQL and then MySQL) and PHP, and to play with early versions of RSS for use on ‘my netscape’. It was also one of the earliest sites of its size to switch to an entirely XHTML/CSS set of templates, somewhere early in 2001. ...