I was chatting with a friend on MSN last night and we had the kicks showing each other our past websites. I gotta tell you some of my best works are burried in my archives, forever hidden to the outside world. Sometimes we work too hard to make things better only to derail ourselves from our original purpose. Sometimes we begin to lose our touch and trying too hard isn’t exactly the best we could do. We need to sit back from time to time and let things shape on its own. Looking back I see my work like audio spikes. There were times I was damn good and there were times I sucked.

This is for those of you web designers and developers out there who have been making websites since the dawn of time. I would like to encourage you to take a quick trip to the past. Put your past in a kaleidoscope and look through the tube. You might surprise yourself and you might learn something from your past to help improve your current and/or future work.

If you’re one of those people who trash everything after you’re done with something, you can use the Wayback Machine to retrieve some of your old sites.

But we live in a modern world, who cares about the past? Well history repeats itself baby!! So unless you make peace with your past you will eventually repeat your old mistakes again.

Learn from your past. Recycle your brilliant ideas and don’t repeat the same mistakes. And always remember to have fun!

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