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Doug Loves Sarah, IntroductionThis is my second anniversary gift to my wife. Theoretically, she did not know about it at the time of me writing it, or at least starting it, since the nature of the gift is an ongoing process. Let me give you some background. The origins of this project was a booklet entitled Sequence that I worked on for our first anniversary but was never given to her. She got a DS, instead. It was a somewhat ambitious, polyvocal attempt to capture the different voices and temperaments of our relationship up to that time. It was a combination of anecdotes, poetry, "quotes" and other such things starting out at the beginning of our relationship and detailing how it went from where it was to where it would end up. The problem with Sequence was a two-fold one. It was complex and would take hours and hours of compiling. Something that would be at least a month or two of work. The second one was related, it is really hard for someone to come up with a visually appealing storybook on a computer monitor when the person it is a suprise for is sitting right there or sleeping in a bed a few feet behind. It simply could not be done. I left that project behind. The idea for an HTML equivalent occured to me a few months ago, about the time that I was getting wyrmis.com off of the ground. The new capabilities of CSS meant that I could come up with a relatively complex scrap book. But, the same two problems persisted. It would still take months of planning and execution. And, I would have to do it where it would not be readily spotted by the one person it was meant to suprise. We now have the third iteration. A serial of sorts. Once a week for 52 weeks I will post one poem, one anecdote, one something about the relationship between my wife and myself. Some will be funny. Some happy. Some sad. Some infuriating. I have pulled a 180 on the design issue, backseating design to the most primitive HTML and styles I could muster and still call it readable. This is a site dedicated to the sentiment. I hope. I wish to win no hearts. I merely wish to chronicle. It is modelled after some of the most basic websites from the 90s. You click the "next" link to the go the next page. Previous takes you back. There is an INDEX that lists all the current pages. It is ugly and it is garish in its white and straight black tones with little color or images to detract. But I hope it is honest. I, Doug Bolden, love you, Sarah. This website is the simple, almost overly basic contuining testament to that. |
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