Completed. Done. 48 hours later AndAny has switched from v3 to v4. I notice designs I’m especially pleased with have a habit of piecing themselves together easier then those I’m only half excited about. The coding of this was relatively stress free. What was wrong with the last design? Nothing, it just didn’t suit my current mood. You know how it goes.

In honor of the new look, I’m posting a brief history of AA in all it’s forms.
Or perhaps it’s an effort to emulate Allison, who not only remembers all the domains she’d had over the years, but also keeps snapshots of everything. (I’m always on a hopeless design snapshot quest, while trying to remember what exactly that particular domain was called.)

Near the end of May 2008, I decided I needed a change from LifeLibraries.com, my previous domain. In part because, to many people, “libraries” is impossible to spell. So AndAnything was born.
Unsure what I wanted to do with the main site, I built two subsites.

A photoblog, AA Shot.

And a book review site, AA Read.

Neither of these achieved the collective or personal/business form I wanted. I needed something that could be both a blog and a portfolio.

Version one of the official AA site combined cutouts of seagulls from one of my photos, with various blues and brushes. Very calming, but the post titles never had the look I wanted.

V2. I built the planet and the starfield, then (as so often happens) I built a site around them.

V3. This design went through several changes. Several. At last I decided I had enough and started coding it. But still, it didn’t quite fit with the current image logo.

V4. Sometimes it’s all about mood and style.

So far, AA has worked well to provide house both a portfolio and a blog. And the best part is, I haven’t met anyone who couldn’t spell it. They’ll misspell my name (Tessa Elwood being somewhat complicated), but not my site. In an online world, this is not a bad thing.

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