For around 2 years, Techno Grouch has had many incarnations.
Very few made it on to the web.

What originally inspired me to make this site? The answer is to prove that I could do it. I had been told by a friend of their own website. When looking at it, I thought I would like to do a site. So I did. Around the same time, my dad had started dabbling with web design, using a freeware text program called Arachnophilia. This was text based page editing, and is the reason I know the basics of HTML.

The original Grouch Land (as it was then called) had very little on it. A few animations of a cartoon cat, originally intended as the mascot, midi files and a little javascript game.

The next incarnation was quite different. It had probably even less on it, but in design terms was much better. The first one had been to prove I could do it. With this one, I concentrated on the graphical side of things. I included a review of a concert and scans of some preview cinema tickets. This is as far as it came.

The next version was possibly the biggest leap in design terms. I moved onto a new server, primarily because my schools internet system blocked home directories (e.g. "something.com/~thisisahomedirectory"). Another reason was the shorter domain (www.oocities.org/grouch1986). The biggest advance was the technology it used, Flash! Although there was very little content, the startup animation was one of my proudest animations ever. I also began to use Dreamweaver 3. A WYSIWYG editor. This was the point where Grouch Land became Techno Grouch.

Many versions of this last site were made.Perhaps the best one, was made in July of 2001. Unfortunately, this was up for only a few weeks. It contained pictures from my Duke of Edinburgh expedition, and a greater amount of interactivity. Unfortunately, by the end of the six weeks holiday, I had took it down.

During this time, I had joined a band, Sunstar. The website I created for this had a lot of creative designs in it's time. Unfortunately, it became quite popular to take the mick out of at my school. Everyone knew the address and the amount of abuse I got for it prompted me to take it down. I may have remade it, but the hosts, 20m.com had stopped FTP uploading, a service I frequently used. The site moved to another host, .ionichost. Around this time, my interest in the band had faded and the site online at the moment is little more than a skeleton.

That brings us to today. Where I use Dreamwever 4, Flash 5 and try to make the best designs, using the best use of colour, with content equally as good.

Some examples I have worked on since October, but never made it to the web can be seen below.