Comment from Jonathan Snook
@Lucas: I had taken it down because at one point I had implemented theming into the blog but I ended up taking that down leaving the old versions inaccessible. There's a screenshot on Flickr that shows...
View ArticleComment from Lucas
Jonathan, http://v4.snook.ca/jonathan/ not work anymore. why? i want to see your old design.
View ArticleComment from Montoya
That just sounds like too much work to me... Anyway, I kind of deleted some of my version 1 design, and my biggest problem is that my design changes for my site are usually motivated by necessity, as...
View ArticleComment from Jonathan Snook
Barry: I just reuploaded an archived version of the site. Some of the links might not work but you should be able to get through to the articles to experience that fixed-comments goodness of old. On a...
View ArticleComment from Barry Melton
I'm not sure if the question was ever answered entirely, but is there somewhere I can view your old design? Nothing against the new one, which has an equal amount of pimptaculum, but I desperately miss...
View ArticleComment from Kyle Bradshaw
I would think if you developed from within a subversion repository from the start of the web application you might be able to pull something like this off. If you knew what revision the website was...
View ArticleComment from AndrewD
I was researching an australian designed CMS (go aussie!!!) called mySource Matrix @ www.matrix.squiz.net which apparently has a style rollback feature. It's a very heavyweight CMS though and I haven't...
View ArticleComment from Jonathan Snook
PJ. The problem is that the shiny cover often has elements that are referenced from the content. My site is a prime example. I have posts referring to the comment form but it's changed in functionality...
View ArticleComment from P.J. Onori
Personally, I think it's nice for purposes of nostalgia, but not much else. I think the content is worth preserving as it is the main focal point of the site, not the shiny cover.
View ArticleComment from Jason Beaird
I set up a little style switcher on my website a couple years ago and when I redesigned I coded the css around my old source code so you can still get to my old 1900s theme as well as a styleless and...
View ArticleComment from karmatosed
I have a switcher on my blog which I use to select flavours. I also use this on my portfolio where I allow users to select their mood. For me, it allows the freedom to develop different looks while...
View ArticleComment from Chris
Sounds like a good idea, my only problem would be that I was glad to see the back of some of my old designs. Allowing them to live forever volountarily (rather than through archive.org or the Google...
View ArticleComment from Lim Chee Aun
Sounds like the Wayback Machine ( http://www.archive.org/web/web.php ), I supposed?
View ArticleComment from WD Milner
I archive all my old page designs as well, though they are not online, for my personal sites anyway. I have the code if not all the content for some of my projects sites. This has been easy in the past...
View ArticleComment from Steve Tucker
I do something like that with my websites. Everytime I release a new version I create a subdomain for the old one. For example: version1.stevetucker.co.uk version2.stevetucker.co.uk version3....etc....
View ArticleComment from Lucas
I've been considering this recently as well. My perspective on it is that you produce a design as a framework for authoring content that works well in it, but also looks stunning. When I've built up...
View ArticleComment from Tim McCormack
What about the Wayback Machine? Sure, it takes anything 6 months to show up in their browsable archives, but they archive pages on a very regular basis, including the CSS and Javascript. It even...
View ArticleComment from Joel
A friend of mine, Scott Schiller ( http://www.schillmania.com/?theme=2006 ), has this sort of thing working on his personal page - change the year in the URI.
View ArticleComment from franky
The idea of a 'design switcher' sounds nice and has even be considered by me. But problems might arise if you just have a 'design switcher'. Is your backend still the same as 3 years ago? If not you...
View ArticleComment from Elliot Swan
That would definitely be cool, though I don't think we have any particular obligation to do so. By the time one has a new design, most comments (both internal or external) about the old one aren't...
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