Post by Steve Deckert on 05/26/21 at 03:42:39
Tonight I am working on a new DECWARE web site. A total start over from complete scratch site. The only thing that will remain untouched is this forum.
I started this almost a year ago when I thought I could pull it off over the winter months. Then the Covid 19 hit and instead of having 50 amps to build this time of year I have nearly 600. So needless to say, the new web site has almost stalled out... but I'm still on it.
Anyway the title of the post comes from remembering what it was like designing the first Decware web site in 1996 when the largest display was 640x480 pixels with 256 colors.
Now there are viewports that range in size from 4K down to a cellphone. Oh Joy...
Nevertheless there was a pioneering thrill to hand coding the first Decware web site in 1996, and now that it is possible, I would like to show people what our amplifiers really look like using the technology of the day which is giving me that same thrill! People who have never owned a Decware amp rave about how good they look, and I keep wondering how they would know, looking at the highly molested 525 pixel 72 dpi images on the site which at the time were all that were allowed by the speed of the day. Google would penalize you if your site loaded too slow, and customers would abandon the load. Yes, young people reading this post, web sites used to take time to load. Ask your professor about it.
The video here is a work in progress, there are still some edgy photos in it that will be replaced, and other tweaks, but it gives you a real idea of what I am talking about. I plan to make the entire website in this insane resolution.
https://decware.wistia.com/medias/2ugdbxhip2. Make sure you watch this full screen and on HD resolution, or don't waste your time.
The irony is that it will actually be a lot less difficult than it was to take images like this and smash them down to a 525 pixel images without looking like complete dog crap. That was really the most stressful and difficult to deal with part of making the Decware web site since the very beginning. Now, we can finally say screw old technology. If you still use an 800 x 600 computer to surf the web, you weren't going to buy anything anyway. ; )
If someone had told me this was going to be possible in 25 years when I was coding the first site I would have thought they were smoking some really good weed to have such an imagination... Knowing full well it would have taken processors that were 1000 times faster and video monitors that were not even possible to make that happen... Yet here we find ourselves. It's real, it happened.
Steve
