2005 called

I can’t recall what made me stumble across this old article from the Guardian —possibly my own blogpost about helping out Zoe as I designed her website back in 2005— but it was nice to reminisce about those heady days. As well designing the website for myboyfriendisatwat Zoe (honourable mention in her sidebar), I also designed girlwithaonetrackmind Zoe’s website (my old one man designs moniker still at the foot of the page!) and attended her book launch in London. In fact I did a few others, a couple of which are still plodding along much to my amazement. I still find it odd to see things I helped create still on the internet in their original form, both websites above are, by and large, the same as when I designed them (the vagaries of how modern web browsers present them aside). Whilst this blog never really hit those heights, even if I did make it into some aspects of Scottish media, it was a joy to befriend (remotely at times) many people on the early UK/Europe blogging scene. Few…