Thread by @NickFitz

Found some old DVD+RWs so I’m backing them up. They include backups of a laptop from 2006, when I was implementing a redesign of GCap Media’s local radio websites. They looked really good for the time, when 800x600 was still king. Here’s some of the page designs I worked from :-)

These sites were for something like 35 different stations.

A cool thing was the multiple colour schemes: the site changed colour over the course of the day, according to the timeslot of the show currently being broadcast. (That info came directly from the broadcast systems.)

A look at my first cut of the CSS, dated 26-Sep-2005, shows them as follows:

Breakfast (06-09) Orange
Morning (09-13) Red
Afternoon (13-16) Leaf Green
Drivetime (16-19) Sky Blue
Evening (19-22) Violet
Late Night (22-01) Purple
Overnight (01-03) Navy Blue
Early (03-06) Crimson

I still like the idea of a site that adapts according to the time of day, though of course for something less local than a set of UK radio stations, timezones would inevitably make it a programming nightmare :-)

Thinking back, I suspect morning was more predominantly yellow/gold, with red accents. Let me look at the CSS again… no, it was yellow with orange accents for Breakfast, then orange with red accents for Morning :-)