Michael Paccione here, and it’s throwback Thursday during coronavirus pandemic season, so I thought I would just show the very first website I ever got paid to build from scratch.
I made this in 2016. It was the very first one. I am very proud of it, because everything on here aside from this google map (it’s a 404 now)…
Mike Finklestein, who is a dog walker here, it was his service area for his dog walking business.
So you were able to see actually, what zones he catered to. So imagine a google map and then a radius, slightly opaque. I actually went out with him, here in San Francisco to Fort Funston. I went on a walk with him and I took all these photos. I also created this background. Everything here, I made. I was really proud of it. I think I actually did a good job. I believe he paid me $300 for this. Given it was my first website, with the amount of time and effort I put into it…I think that was pretty fair there.
I actually still think this is a fantastic website. I really like the design. It really goes with the Viking Dog Hiking bit. And even way back then in 2016, I knew about mobile responsiveness.
(adjusts window size as window changes with it)
So if we drop this down, you can see…bring this back up here. You can see that it changes a bit. Look at that action there. Boom!
(shows phone size screen)
That’s a phone.
(scrolls to the bottom)
You get a little menu at the bottom.
(hits About menu item at the bottom)
I believe this pops it up. Right? Pretty good for my first website, four years ago.
Mike’s a friend of mine there, and he’s still walking dogs. I started my own business for walking dogs for many years there. So, I thought I would just do a little retro action there, because nowadays I create complex user interfaces using the latest architecture and tools for handling reactive data, and this was just the good old days.
Well I hope everyone’s doing well during coronavirus. If you need any compex websites, with wordpress or web application development, please reach out and I will get back to you as soon as I can.
Thank you