…when linked to as the overall image repository on a blog or website? Because it’s a disruption in my read- and clickflow as a visitor, some kind of a „PDF experience“ but with simply an image opening up. Very annoying to me.

Da bat mich doch kürzlich im Biergarten der Herr S., einfach mal mehr Fotos auf meiner Webseite zu posten. Woher nehmen und nicht stehlen, war mein Einwand, immerhin sind Fotos doch oftmals eine sehr private Angelegenheit. Und die fünfhundertachtundreißigste Landschaftsaufnahme beim Sonnenuntergang ist zwar nett anzusehen, aber ein echter Mehrwert für den verwöhnten Betrachter mag sich hier schon lange nicht mehr einstellen. Bliebe höchstens noch die Unkenntlichmachung durch Augenbalken, mit der auch drei Jahre alte Archivbilder des Herrn S. in dokumentarischer Blüte erstrahlen.

Just logged on to our webserver and removed the files with a few clicks. Did you ever wish that parts of your history could be rubbed out that easily? Maybe I should post these words wrapped into embarrassment-tags ;-). But as in real life, this plan will not work out, of course. Searching for terms like „web archive“ will bring up http://www.waybackmachine.org/ in example. If you forgot about the how and when of your first website, it will take you willingly back to the old times, no matter if you like it or not.

After almost four years with the old frame-based design, I decided to start something new. Ok, the old site may have been just moderately ugly, but from the technical point of view it was really bad. Moved over the old contents so far, and most of the old links will be valid for the next few days until having informed my dear top-referers. Also you may use http://www.kessener.net/hajo/ to get to the old site. And yes, I will switch to something else than the default template asap ;-).