My name is Peter Sanderson and I draw stuff, this website is where I put my not terrible stuff.
You can contact me at bluebright.psm [at] gmail [dot] com
Old Websites
I started this website when I was 15 (2005) as a way to make money. Of course, that never happened. What I did get out of it however were many years of self taught web building experience. For those who are interested, you can see a history of all the website iterations I’ve been through below.
Site 1
‘My Zany Adventure’ was a webomic that consisted usually of single panel drawings updated 3 times a week. The content management system consisted of Simon Steinhouse’s Webcomic Script and me opening up ‘news.php’ every week to update. Archaic!
My first attempt at web design was basically a back ground and one gif on top of that. The links were embedded in the image using fireworks. What skill!
Here is the ‘more’ page where I would eventually put other artwork.
Site 2
Not too much changed for my first revision. Probably a result of Bjorn telling me my site looked girly. It sounds like something he would say.
Pretty much the same site design with darker, ‘moodier’ colours.
This is the ‘about’ page that I’m sure I was proud of for being witty. The comic archive would also be on a similar page.
Site 3
Now I was getting the hang of this whole web thing, I wanted to get stuck into a comic that had a story and a bit of depth. I then redesigned my site for a comic that was larger. Below is the original comic for ‘victory pocket’ which started out as half pages.
Macromedia Fireworks is thrown out the window in favour of this crazy ‘html’ stuff I had heard all about. The top menu buttons were gifs and I also added more comic links I liked in the footer.
The rest of the pages followed the above format.
Site 4
It’s starting to almost look like a real website. I have three different comics now split into three different colours. I love colour coding things and this idea went on for another few redesigns.
‘my zany adventure’ had a bit of an identity crisis here. I now had three comics on the site which were to split into three colours.
The ‘news’ section was across all three comics. Green was the colour of my one off comics that had more effort put into them.
Purple was the colour of my old high school single panel drawings.
The other pages were coloured red.
Site 5
Number five is when I renamed everything, giving the green comics the name of ‘the expensive vest club’. Despite the name, vests are scarcely mentioned in the comics.
I now created a dedicated front page with space artwork that rotated on every visit.
The comic pages are still colour coded with banners added to the top of each page.
‘Victory Pocket’ has now become a full page project. I had to go back through all of halves and join them together. Now the idea was I wanted to write a graphic novel.
Site 6
Version 6 is the first site to be made with wordpress. Beforehand I had been making everything from scratch and the CMS was a little script made specifically for webcomics. Not pictured below are the comic archives. It went from a text list to thumbnails as I switched to NEXTGen Gallery to handle displaying images. My favorite version and also the last version to made from the ground up with my spindly little fingers.
The front page has the same design but now with a useless added footer.
All the background graphics had been changed from diagonal lines to coloured tiles.
Site 7
“If that was your favorite site, why’d you change it you moron?” Good question. A little rudely asked, but valid. You see I designed the above site to be viewed on PC screens. Then came along all these new fangled tablet phones and what not and thus my none-responsive site had to be thrown out. Since I wanted to focus more on drawing and less on website making, I decided it was time to use someone else’s design. I had trouble finding one that I liked so I literately stole the code and assets to create this version 7. Also combined psm with my brikwars blog.
Look at that web 2.0!
Brilliant use of java script someone else!
Site 8
I never liked version 7, the look or that I stole it, so I started to find properly licenced themes. After editing the crap out of it, we get psm v8!
