A Walk down Nostalgia Lane
10 years ago I had just updated our new site in Front Page and had moved it from http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/5377/omal/homepage.htm to Tripod because traffic was starting to shut down the site intermittentantly. On free hosting they only gave you so much bandwidth and we were outgrowing ours....(the site was 2 years old). I experimented with all kinds of "state of the art" things like backgrounds, music, drop down menus, javascript, Flash, ugh...frames, swirling carousels, and more (which seem decidely awful now - but they were "cool" then) and learned everything I could about web design....but the test of time is that our O'Mal Alaskan Malamute site is still here...better than ever. But just for kicks, lets look at it the way it was then (a few links don't work and some images are long lost)...Vista couldn't even read the CD it was stored on so I had to enlist an XP computer to read the files and convert them!!! Some are pretty cheesy and warning - may crash your browser so view at your own risk...but if you were with us then...it's kind of fun! Lets take a walk down memory lane...some of the articles have barely changed and the information is as good today as it was then....and sadly, the only dog still with us is Holly....
Before 1998 - I no longer have the original site that was built in Front Page, but most of the text is on the current About Us page. View them in Internet Explorer or they probably won't work and you'll have to click the security bar (asking to allow the content) because protection against rouge webpage scripts wasn't necessary back then...and Firefox wasn't invented yet .
O'Mal Alaskan Malamutes - 10 Years Good....Back to 1998 (homepage - requires sun java for the "lake effect" to work)
And a few other incarnations of the homepage ....
This one will make you dizzy...2002 (if it works...warning, probably won't work in MOST browser -today - spinning rotating pictures - requires Javascript enabled)
My first attempt at a Flash Intro....2003 (just homepage - requires Macromedia Flash Player)
Updated Flash Intro...2004 (just homepage - requires Macromedia Flash Player)
Skinny me with long hair and big glasses!
How we chose our Logo...
We've been asked where the idea came from. We considered several ideas,
but none represented our dogs' love of kids, strength and beauty more than this
picture of Stephanie hugging Homer after a sled ride one afternoon in newly
fallen snow. Also, the "mal" portion of our name is derived
from mál- `prince' and meant `nobleman'. What more appropriate prefix
for a breed that is the "King of Dogs". The fact that we live in "howell"
is just a coincidence! Woo woo :- )
WE ARE BANNED IN CHINA
This site is proud to be BANNED in China since 2002! (we proliferate so much subversive information here!). See for yourself at: Inacessible Sites Tested by Users of the Real-Time Testing System - right between Google and UCLA. Search for omalmalamutes on the page - I find this hilariously funny! We're right up there with Playboy, Dissident.cjb.net, CrimesofWar, and CBS News, CNN, Google, and more...the truth is out there and we have it! And you thought Malamutes weren't that big a deal - really!
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