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BeeSource.com was started in 1998 by Barry Birkey, the brother of Headstand founder Randal Birkey. The site grew out of Barry's interest and hobby in beekeeping (an apiarist). At that ... Read more..Thursday, November 1st, 2007 Posted in Web Design | No Comments »
The final installment in this retrospective was in 2006, as the BIRKEY.COM website was relaunched with a version 4.0 redesign, as can currently be viewed online. The interface and logo ... Read more..Thursday, November 1st, 2007 Posted in Web Design | No Comments »
Continuing the retrospective on the history of BIRKEY.COM, we are posting below the third major redesign of the site since it was founded by Randal Birkey in 1996. This version ... Read more..Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 Posted in Web Design | No Comments »
Back in 1998, I had some friends in Oak Park named Lee & Margie Fay, who started an in home business called Cottage Classics. Margie was very resourceful, and would ... Read more..Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 Posted in Web Design | No Comments »
In December of 1998, this was the main web interface page for the Chicago based Jones Lang LaSalle real estate development company. This Chicago web design is based upon a ... Read more..Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 Posted in Web Design | No Comments »
I was looking through the archives of the Way Back Machine, and discovered what my former website looked like almost 9 years ago today (on 12-OCT-99). I had forgotten about ... Read more..Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 Posted in Web Design | No Comments »
I registered my first domain in 1996... BIRKEY.COM, figuring I should have the domain of my own last name. Within the next year, I taught myself to code in HTML ... Read more..Saturday, September 29th, 2007 Posted in Map Illustration | No Comments »
I've done so many map illustrations in my career, I've lost count. Many of them are of the Chicago area. The one on the left I did in 1995 of ... Read more..