Drippy Taps

Easily the oldest site here, DrippyTaps.com was one of my first paid freelance websites and the first to enjoy any real success. Advertising a plumbing firm in the South West of England, it surprisingly generated a fair share of leads for it's owners.

Looking at it now I feel it is a deadful design (what was I thinking?), but considering how long ago it was done and how at that time I was still very much learning the trade, I guess I shouldn't be too hard on myself.

To be fair, it did work in every browser at the time - and still does perfectly today. In those days, cross-browser compatibility involved exhausting battles with Netscape 4.7 to get a site to look remotely how you wanted it to, and if that attempt wasn't right, often ripping up that swathes of HTML <tables> and all the images within them and starting over from scratch. If it looked good on a Mac too, you were quids in.

My version of DrippyTaps.com died some years ago but it marked a small milestone for me at a time I was desperately trying to build an online portfolio. It all seems a horribly long time ago now.

Visit an archived version of drippytaps.com.