Not one, not two, but Marcofolio.net is turning 3 years old today! Time goes so fast when you're having so much fun, doesn't it? And I'm still writing high quality content with pleasure, still exploring more and more possibilities of the web every day.

I believe the quality of the articles have gained a lot, especially compared to the first year. I wanted to push out a redesign before the blog turned three, but because of the lack if time, you'll have to wait a while. But stay tuned, I hope to get it up and running as fast as possible.

I hope to see you sticking around here and enjoy your stay on this website as much as I do writing it. Stay tuned for more high quality articles, jQuery tutorials, inspirational articles, CSS(3) proof of concepts and much, much more!

I came a long way

It's pretty funny to see that I truly came from a long way. Not only for Marcofolio, but the whole web development/-design. I found a website that I created in 2004 for a school project. You won't believe the things you see there. So, feel free to visit the site: Programmeertalen (Assignment for IT class) (Dutch). One small thing: It's best viewable with Internet Explorer (can you believe I said that?).

Couple of facts. Back than, I

• Actually liked the WordArt used in the header
• Loved the animations for the menu
• Created the page optimized for IE with a screen resolution of 800x600
• Didn't care about the blue background and red text
• Thought that Java and JavaScript were the same
• Created a "Go to top" button that doesn't use an anchor, but reloads the page
• Didn't know anything about CSS so used inline styling
• Created the site using Microsoft FrontPage

Here are a couple of screenshots in case you don't have IE:

How could I make it any more horrible than that? Luckily, I've learned a lot about (web)design and I hope you can see that on Marcofolio.

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Thank you

Thank you once again for these wonderful three years. Although I really like to share my creative thoughts with everyone, you're the ones that make it possible too.

And don't you worry: I'm here to stay for a while. On to the next celebration of Marcofolio.net!

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Gaya   2010-05-11 20:29:51 Congrats on the 3 years Marco! Lovely to see that website again haha. All the best! Reply | Quote

Janko   2010-05-11 20:54:34 Congratulations on your anniversary! I wish you to keep posting great stuff and double number of readers in next year. The website is great, you know I love tables )) Reply | Quote

saurabh shah - Congrats !   2010-05-11 21:40:24 Congrats bro ! I always enjoy reading your articles. Oh yeah ! i love tables sometimes too Reply | Quote

Pablo Lara H - Illustrator   2010-05-11 22:07:11 Congratulations and I hope you'll be here a lot of years more... Reply | Quote

Martin   2010-05-11 23:25:17 Congrats on your anniversary, Marco, and keep up the fantastic work for many years to come! It is always refreshing to see one's works after a few years have passed. This is the best way to see how much you've learned and improved. Reply | Quote

Fabio   2010-05-12 11:50:48 happy birthday, thanks for sharing so many useful techniques. thanks to your post i had the inspiration to search for my very first website, and actually found it: here it is, made with frontpage and in all its brilliant use of flash animations, frames, ugly color schemes and whatever, but still alive and kicking: http://digilander.libero.it/fabiopao/ oh boy, i am gonna cry.. Reply | Quote

Webstandard-Blog   2010-05-12 13:35:12 Congratulations Marco and thx for sharing all that helpful stuff the last 3 years! Greatings from Berlin, Germany! Reply | Quote

Marco - Reactions   2010-05-12 16:40:25 @Gaya Yeah, you're right; I showed it on school before! Now I finally dared to show it online . Can you imagine what happened in the past years! @Janko Thanks a lot - I really would like to see that too! I'll just keep on writing high quality content and hope that'll boost the reader count. Who doesn't love tables? @Saurabh Thanks, really appreciate it! @Pablo Thanks, I hope that too . But don't worry, I'll make sure to stick around for a while. @Martin Absolutely true. I need to clean up Marcofolio some time and remove all the "old", "ugly" and "non-related" articles, just to make sure everything is uniform. Thanks for the congrats and comment! @Fabio Wow, yours is almost as horrible as mine . Still, thanks for sharing, pretty cool to see that your current website is amazing! What time can do to people . @Webstandard-Blog I'm glad you like all the posts that I share here on Marcofolio - that truly keeps me motivated. Reply | Quote

Chris Spooner   2010-05-12 17:00:26 Congratulations on your third blogging anniversary. Looking forward to another year's worth of articles and tutorials. Reply | Quote

Timothy Blake   2010-05-12 17:29:29 Congratulations on the 3 year aniversary of macrofoilo and i hope it contines to grow. I'm really looking foward to seeing the new redesign any chance of a sneak peak ? Reply | Quote

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juan iconshock - congrats !!!!!   2010-05-13 14:32:12 Hey Marco, I found your site just a while ago, but I've to say I reaaaaally like the content... always useful and up to date My suggestion: Just continue with your great and honest work. Reply | Quote

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