INTRODUCTION

This is a compilation of all of the site designs over the years, from the time that it was incepted and went live years ago on Earthlink's servers, until now. Gone is the MIDI background music, seamless blend filter graphics and 3D rendered fonts, however the original spirit of the site -- that of an integral nexus of all that is BM -- still remains very much alive today. With eight revisions and counting, we're only going to continue to improve as we move forward.

BMUG v1, the one that started it all. I used Notepad for all of the site development. Background MIDI music, sprites, and rendered graphics were used throughout. (1251x888x16mc)

BMUG v2, the lessons I learned from v1 were applied to the sleeker v2. More rendered graphics, including the completed Sophia the 3rd model. The "X" marks where the counter was. (1251x888x16mc)

BMUG v2a, added an entry page. Also joined two NES-based webrings, which were very popular back then. The code in the background is the web code in hex. (1251x889x16mc)

BMUG v3, started experimenting with frames heavily. Everything was animated by mouse-over. (1251x889x16mc)

BMUG v3, Xmas mode. Everything from the icons to the mouseovers were given a Xmas theme. (1251x889x16mc)

BMUG v4, threw the frames out and used tables to separate everything instead. About this time Sunsoft approached me for consulting work, and the rest is history. (1251x889x16mc)

BMUG v5, enough with the black backgrounds already (the censorship blackout is over). This site design lended itself to a scalable setup, and was much easier on the eyes. (1251x889x16mc)

BMUG v6, there's no visual difference between v5 and v6. The only real change was behind the scenes: v6 used PHP and various templates to render pages and headers. (1251x889x16mc)

BMUG v6a... lost the original files in a drive crash. This was basically all in frames and using a blue/purple/white color scheme. If I ever find the backup files, I'll post an image of this revision.

BMUG v7, I guess you could call this my 'blue period'. Used imapping mainly to sectionalize everything. This was the prototype for the layout on BMUG v8. (1271x865x16mc)

BMUG v8, used a template for the site design, which worked to help in the transition from v7. No imaps, less load time. Possibly the best layout the site has ever had, until version 9. (1251x888x16mc)