Someone on Twitter mentioned BeOS, and that got me looking over my old pictures from the previous incarnations of my blog. This was how the site looked when I hand-coded it. I miss it.
I had created the graphics all by hand in a graphic editing program that came with FrontPage 97, called Microsoft Image Composer. (I still can’t drive Photoshop.)
This is what it looked like before I did a big upgrade. I still like the look of the title with the color gradient.
I still use the 4-corner gradient I created with that program as my desktop background on every computer I use.
I love, love, love Microsoft Image Composer. I love it so much that I continue to use it, even on my up-to-date Windows 10 laptop. You can download a FrontPage97 .iso file here: https://archive.org/details/Microsoft_FrontPage_98_-_Win95_Eng
Download the .iso file, right-click it and choose mount. In the new disk that gets created, go into the ImgComp\enu directory and double-click setup.exe. A few questions later and, voila! MIC is back!