The boring backstory

This is an excerpt from Reviving JustWizards.com

Back in 2017, I was doing a "Digital Design and Web Development" course. It was a mixture of technical web stuff (i.e. get Notepad out to write your HTML), non-technical stuff (i.e. get Adobe Animate and Premiere out), and of course theory stuff (e.g. complementary colours).

As is typical of these things, some course material was outdated... some was even blatantly incorrect. What is less typical is one of our lecturers stopped showing up to work without explanation, and another fell ill. At the time, we heard he was on his deathbed, but I haven't found an obituary for him so don't know if he actually died.

So between me not enjoying the course material and half our lecturers disappearing, it wasn't a very good time and when work was due I stopped going in.

Honestly, the most value I got out of that course developed from forming a small group of friends. I lost contact with them in the process of deleting my Facebook account. Saw one of them carrying shopping a few years back, but I was on a bus and had somewhere to be.

This brings me onto the fact I made two essentially one-page websites which tied into our little group. One was about one of them wanting to buy a £625 sweater (about £800 or $1000 in today's money) which didn't even look very good. I took it too far, so I won't be bringing that website back into the spotlight. It was rather poorly made, anyway, with multiple scroll bars and not a lot of content.

The other website I made was "Just Wizards", revolving around a funny picture of a guy in a wizard costume. The Wayback Machine scraped the HTML, but none of the images or other media content. Which is just a bit sad, really, so I thought I'd remedy that.