ArtLung Archives c. 1996

I have posted 70 times in 2026 using WordPress. 29 were PESOS'ed from Instagram—about a third. The total word count for 2026 is 15,745 words. I have posted 35 swimming posts so far this year. I have made 2 headers so far this year.

I participated in Weird Web October which was incredibly rewarding.

I posted 292 times in 2025 using WordPress. 120 were PESOS'ed from Instagram—about a third. The total word count for 2025 was 64,782 words with about 255 images and approximately 93 external links. I posted 131 posts tagged "swim2025". I made 2 comics that year. I made 6 headers.

It was great revisitng and improving older parts of my site in 2024. I got hugely involved with the IndieWeb and did a lot of creative work.

I posted 467 times in 2024 using WordPress. 226 were PESOS'ed from Instagram—about a third. The total word count for 2024 was 101,358 words with about 485 images and approximately 334 external links. I posted 157 posts tagged "swim2024". I made 5 comics that year. I made 10 headers.

I stopped using joecrawford.com as a redirect and put in place a simple statement. Design by Al Abut.

I posted 378 times in 2023 using WordPress. 286 were PESOS'ed from Instagram—more than 75%. The total word count for 2023 was 21,898 words with about 328 images and approximately 306 external links. I posted 167 posts tagged "swim2023". I made 4 comics that year. I made 2 headers.

I posted 412 times in 2022 using WordPress. 355 were PESOS'ed from Instagram—more than 80%. The total word count for 2022 was 19,252 words with about 404 images and approximately 403 external links. I posted 177 posts tagged "swim2022". I made 1 comics that year. I didn't make any headers.

I posted 515 times in 2021 using WordPress. 462 were PESOS'ed from Instagram—more than 80%. The total word count for 2021 was 22,034 words with about 486 images and approximately 415 external links. I posted 247 posts tagged "swim2021". I made 8 comics that year. I didn't make any headers.

I posted 344 times in 2020 using WordPress. 300 were PESOS'ed from Instagram—more than 80%. The total word count for 2020 was 28,032 words with about 333 images and approximately 293 external links. I posted 47 posts tagged "swim2020". I made 13 comics that year. I made 3 headers.

I posted 342 times in 2019 using WordPress. 304 were PESOS'ed from Instagram—more than 80%. The total word count for 2019 was 20,115 words with about 340 images and approximately 348 external links. I was not yet tagging swimming posts in 2019. I made 1 header.

I posted 301 times in 2018 using WordPress. 240 were PESOS'ed from Instagram—more than 75%. The total word count for 2018 was 29,420 words with about 297 images and approximately 170 external links. I was not yet tagging swimming posts in 2018. I made 2 headers.

I posted 284 times in 2017 using WordPress. 278 were PESOS'ed from Instagram—more than 90%—. The total word count for 2017 was 5,090 words with about 282 images and approximately 4 external links. I posted 7 posts tagged "swim2017". I didn't make any headers.

I posted 463 times in 2016 using WordPress. 412 were PESOS'ed from Instagram—more than 80%. The total word count for 2016 was 12,487 words with about 458 images and approximately 36 external links. I posted 8 posts tagged "swim2016". I made 1 header.

I posted 573 times in 2015 using WordPress. 540 were PESOS'ed from Instagram—more than 90%—. The total word count for 2015 was 14,327 words with about 560 images and approximately 36 external links. I was not yet tagging swimming posts in 2015. I didn't make any headers.

The robot collection started.

thisismyjam.com shut down. it was a silo to post favorite songs.

I posted 509 times in 2014 using WordPress. 475 were PESOS'ed from Instagram—more than 90%—. The total word count for 2014 was 13,905 words with about 510 images and approximately 45 external links. I was not yet tagging swimming posts in 2014. I made 2 headers.

I had been using twitter since 2006, 7 years. I saved an archive of tweets from that time.

I posted 79 times in 2013 using WordPress. 53 were PESOS'ed from Instagram—more than half. The total word count for 2013 was 5,979 words with about 81 images and approximately 21 external links. I was not yet tagging swimming posts in 2013. I made 2 headers.

I didn't make any new headers in 2012.

I posted 549 times in 2012 using WordPress. 477 were PESOS'ed from Instagram—more than 80%. The total word count for 2012 was 15,074 words with about 556 images and approximately 50 external links. I was not yet tagging swimming posts in 2012. I didn't make any headers.

Looking at 2011's headers in reverse chronological order you can see it get less and less communicative. More stark. Darker. Reading it in chronological order and things get more hopeful and colorful.

I posted 420 times in 2011 using WordPress. 325 were PESOS'ed from Instagram—more than 75%. The total word count for 2011 was 17,578 words with about 427 images and approximately 116 external links. I was not yet tagging swimming posts in 2011. I made 5 headers.

2010 was the year my Mom died, and the black header was my way of communcating grief.

In retrospect that's how I look at it, though at the time I just thought a clever or graphically complicated header looked inappropriate. It was not what I wanted to convey with my website.

I posted 122 times in 2010 using WordPress. The total word count for 2010 was 26,957 words with about 89 images and approximately 116 external links. I was not yet tagging swimming posts in 2010. I made 2 headers.

I posted 61 times in 2009 using WordPress. The total word count for 2009 was 8,690 words with about 49 images and approximately 7 external links. I was not yet tagging swimming posts in 2009. I made 1 header.

Leah took this great photo of me at the boys' football game and I rode that photo for quite a while.

At the time I was using an off-the-shelf WordPress theme and these headers all fit into that scheme.

This was before I figured out that the best way to get the look you really want out of WordPress is to build your own theme properly.

I posted 292 times in 2008 using WordPress. The total word count for 2008 was 55,678 words with about 192 images and approximately 90 external links. I was not yet tagging swimming posts in 2008. I made 5 headers.

Not much changed between 2005 and 2007, but this was how the homepage and most of the site looked then. It had a random header on the home page. As life got busier, more emphasis was placed on the blog.

I leared to use jQuery this year and turned joecrawford.com into a sort of game with little green rectangles and sheep that moved around. A very odd but fun choice.

I posted 381 times in 2007 using WordPress. 110 were imported from via Delicious. The total word count for 2007 was 55,481 words with about 159 images and approximately 113 external links. I was not yet tagging swimming posts in 2007. I made 4 headers.

I exported a tag cloud of my tweets to that point from tagclouds.com.

I posted 341 times in 2006 using WordPress. 41 were imported from via Delicious. The total word count for 2006 was 40,502 words with about 73 images and approximately 44 external links. I was not yet tagging swimming posts in 2006. I didn't make any headers.

I posted 337 times in 2005 using WordPress. The total word count for 2005 was 60,383 words with about 135 images and approximately 82 external links. I was not yet tagging swimming posts in 2005. I made 2 headers.

I posted 401 times in 2004, 86 using WordPress, 315 using Blogger. The total word count for 2004 was 47,684 words with about 38 images and approximately 72 external links. I was not yet tagging swimming posts in 2004. I made 14 headers.

July 2003 brought many changes, including a revamped and simplified main page for artlung.com. A stark image announcing "Onward," combined with a list detailing events in my personal and professional life.

I have a snapshot of sandiegobloggers.com from this time period here. It was a site meant to chronicle the growth of the blogosphere.

I posted 540 times in 2003 using Blogger. I was not using WordPress yet. The total word count for 2003 was 64,654 words with about 24 images and approximately 197 external links. I was not yet tagging swimming posts in 2003. I made 21 headers.

This splash page was originally in blue, and was in place starting in early Summer, 2002. It is in xhtml and uses CSS for layout. The pixelated design, coupled with the personal touch of my face gives a warm, friendly feeling. The page is filled with links, encouraging visitors to explore.

"Kitties Thinking" is one of my favorites. A DHTML effect is used to explain what the links are in a "thought balloon" above the cat's head. The cat in question is my sister's cat Ferris. The image is a charcoal drawing I did sometime in 1988 or 1989.

"Mr Spaceman" is from a watercolor illustration I was always proud of, though it appeared as the splash page only briefly.

"Joe in Headphones" is an experiment in color for me, based on a photograph of me as a kid, listening to records. I might have been listening to "Philadelphia Freedom" or maybe "Theme from Batman" - but I sure look comfortable. The use of small accents here, using CSS and xhtml, is meant to give a clean, but friendly impression.

"Supercolor Joe" is kind of nice. DHTML plays a prominent role in this design, as the links are only available that way. The picture of me is rather flat though, despite the fun use of colorizing effects. As an academic exercise in CSS positioning, this was a success.

This is the first use of the "Graffiti ArtLung" logo, with a bold digitalized pink backdrop. Also used is a grunge effect on the main links, which lead the visitor directly to the blog, or open a lower section of links to the whole site. I also like the use of bar codes on this page.

I posted 666 times in 2002 using Blogger. I was not using WordPress yet. The total word count for 2002 was 66,399 words with about 58 images and approximately 197 external links. I was not yet tagging swimming posts in 2002. I made 18 headers.

I started blogging this year. It was with blogger.com, the way that worked was I would write in blogger.com and would publish to a file that was transferred by FTP to my server.

I posted 324 times in 2001 using Blogger. I was not using WordPress yet. The total word count for 2001 was 22,309 words with about 5 images and approximately 43 external links. I was not yet tagging swimming posts in 2001. I made 23 headers.

I was a year away from blogging and experimenting with the site heavily.

I did some design work for my employer, AVENCOM, including a site called TransitWorks.

joecrawford was put live in 1999. The idea was for it to be my professional page, as increasingly my site was personal.

4 pages. Full Archive.

This was the initial design for joecrawford.com. Several elements and the color scheme carried over to the actual site.

1 page. Design Comp.

I put in a framework that lasted through Summer of 1999. The architecture was based on server-side includes as implemented in Apache. The volume of pages here makes an SSI approach make a good deal of sense. Additionally, the framework would accommodate almost any content inserted. The goal was always to have the sites' HTML and CSS validate. This was an important value and the site rendered very consistently across browsers. The layout was designed to be "liquid," that is, it would stretch and squeeze in to accommodate almost any screen resolution. The principle of making pages work as well as possible, across as many browsers as possible was, and is, an important one to me. It was with this design that I began using the domain artlung.com.

1 demonstration page.

This website got me a good deal of work. It is a portfolio and a personal space. I think it did its' job very well. This was my second public website and was hosted with earthlink.

36 pages. Full Archive.

This was my first website posted to the web. It's rudimentary, but features the things that have been a hallmark of my personal site since then: many outbound links, lots of art, and a resume. It's a good first site, but not a good site.

3 pages. Full Archive.

This is my very first website. It was never posted to the web, but was the very beginning. I have come a very long way since then. The parody (ripoff?) of the Art Center College logo, sized far too big, is the site's only prominent feature.

2 pages.