So things are looking promising for Bright-Matrix. Since Saturday, we've gotten four bites for possible web-work. Granted, no one's actually hired us just yet, but (especially this early in the game) at least we've got possibilities. I think Mike and I need to work on the Hard Sell--or whatever you want to call it when we try and convince someone to use a product.

So between viewing some websites that can definitely benefit from a re-design, not to mention revamping my ubiquitous Vendetta Shrine, I wound up revisting the place where it all began for me: The Shadow Gallery. This, longtime friends will remember, was the name of the Geocities site that was my first official website, lo those many years ago. (Late 1996, if I remember correctly.)

God, what a piece of shit it was. I officially shut it down about in 2001, though it was dormant . . . almost since inception. If you go to the main page you'll see the "closing" notice where I admit the site was nothing more than a collection of links to sites I liked. The only two sections that I did anything with were, not surprisingly, the Comicbook section and the aforementioned Vendetta Shrine. And, look at my webdesign circa 1998, it's obvious why these sites went nowhere fast.

So, for a laugh, check out:

The Shadow Gallery of Comicbooks


The Gallery of Friends


The Gallery of Shows

Be afraid. Be very afraid.