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6 years ago…in March I started a website using Geocities (thanks Yahoo Profiles for the exact date- now I can’t calm it was in 2003- those bastards!). For those who didn’t get the news Geocities is going the way of the dinosaurs now.
And while the original layouts and designs I have made which used Publisher to be developed are long gone- and the blank pages with affiliate links and a topsites as well. What is left on my Geocities account does hold lots of old remnants of a site once gone. A era and decade which now no longer exists.
From random mp3/midi files to images and websites today I’m sharing what has always been kept secret for many of a year.
29 January 2006 & November 2005 – CareyKid Designs; the completion of one of the best designs I have ever spirited was uploaded to Yahoo Geocities this day. (For some reason there is an extra version which was updated on the; 18 December 2007). 2006 I didn’t know much about designs to a point- but with people insisting I make some table designs and me not knowing how to make tabled designs from images- I created a few designs which used images and then got a friend to code them.
He went at that time by Careykid and developed Another Code Labs v.10 and another design which was used as a HTML design (which then got converted to iGaming CMS).

Another Code Labs v.10 (click the image to view the coded design)

Another Code Labs iGaming Era (click the image to view the coded design)
The inspiration for v.10 came from the original theme which was developed for a forum software called NextBBS. At the time I admired the forums software and most of all the colours and how the theme worked. I wanted to encapsulate that into my website- so I used the same colour pallet and designed the layout using sprites.
The iGaming CMS era was in November 2005. This layout was made before v.10. If my memory served me correct v.10 was the return to HTML while the design from November was used for iGaming CMS (this didn’t take off as well as I hopped for my type of site).
There’s no doubt that CK has done probably a few other designs for me. But these are the only ones which I have left. A shame- as slowly the history of my older sites are disappearing- but what I do have left is a good start to show people what was once there.
In 2009 I no longer have all the original files which Another Code Labs used- meaning I don’t have any of the original content. I do have access to see some via internet achieves- but that doesn’t extend the greatest parts of the site.
These designs where made in the prime time of Another Code Labs- visits from around the globe and everyone enjoying what we had to offer. It evolved into something which started going down hill just after ACLv.10- a real shame, but we did get visits from the developers who I hope where impressed, but now if you look at Another Code Labs- what has become of it- the resource that once stood has become a mini site which doesn’t deserve anything it gets.
It’s a real shame to see what my original site had become- but while most people remember me for that….Geocities shines something onto that statement which makes people go “huh- oh yeah DS sites before thatâ€. Yes its time to see one of those DS sites- in a way back style which doesn’t come back.
August 2004 – DS Like; Do you like the Nintendo DS? I do! Yes while that wasn’t the snatchy catch phrase which I should of used to advertise my site- my 2nd Nintendo DS Site (DS_Network (1st) – DS Like (2nd) – Aussie DS (3rd) – Aussie DS never took of the ground). It was hosted on that domain- why? Because DS_Network failed in a big hump- the original hosting service I used used disappeared, so I went back to my Geocities account to create DS Like durring my spare time.
This little baby also had two designs- the later which I’m going to show you – with the code. Was a free layout which I found. The original? Yes it was a CK design.
Once again it was based of something I wanted to see- via an Image and then he coded it up. What was the first DS Like Layout? Well in real fact it was the second layout. You see the original “prototype†website for DS Like- was called DS Style.

DS Like v.1 (DS Style) (click the image to view bigger image)
Ah the original design was so “icky†but it dam well provided that information it had. Showing user information (how many users online, homepage button, add to favourites button) – wow you don’t see those features anymore in web 2.0, it also featured some random fanfics I wrote/some random chick wrote.
While the new layout requested people to make a banner with “DS Style†it turns out that name was going to disappear- using the same information and resources I’ve collected – DS Like formed from the ashes of the prototype DS Style.

DS Like v.2 (click the image to view the yahoo geocities page- please note this may not work in the coming months)
But all good things must come to an end- before I shoved the Another Code Labs v.10 design on the domain- users going to the site would find index.htm- this page featured the following message:
Well the time has come for Ds_Style to close , we had a great time with the affiliates and top sites we were members of but , I have come to the decision to close the site. After 6 Months from Harvest Moon to Ds Information we covered for you now the only remains are the fanfic’s , Ds news and the forum community. This time with the affiliates wont be misted I shore had a great time maintaining a site with information on the Nintendo ds , but as I said a time comes in a sites life to close its doors and move on in life all affiliates plz remove the link , if you still keep the link plz give notification to your viewers we have closed. You may still see me working for other sites or helping out with others in need of information but this is the last big site "I" am going to run i may work for a big site in the furture but for now its good by plz join the forum or go to the idea site or news blog.
Wow! To think I used to use the internet like a fucking idiot (aka how Kieren types on his site/msn).

DS Like v.3 (Dual Idea) (click the image to view a bigger image)
The site didn’t end there- all the old information found itself on another Geocities website about the Nintendo DS later on (god knows when this happened) wait I think this happened soon after DS Like closed- wait maybe it happened when Aussie-DS closed :/
It’s a shame; It is a shame that the hosting on this site didn’t offer more secrets and clues to my webmaster past. It seems it wasn’t as smooth as I always said- and for the most part- its a dam shame the Aussie-DS design which was coded for me no longer is on that site. Because that was dam one hell of a web design. Also DS_Network/Aussie-DS pages no longer exist- I don’t think they ever where on this page- but its a dam shame they didn’t. Also it would of been nice with some of the original designs/uses for the geocities page.
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