About the website
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Here is the brief history of the website called Awesome Trombone Links. We’ll try to remember everything. But if anything new comes to mind, we will update this page.
In the beginning . . .
While Edward Evans was a music student at Florida State University in August 1995, the idea dawned on him to create a webpage with a list of other websites related to the trombone, the concept was to hand pick each URL, that way the list was not a common list of links like everybody else was doing, but these would be “awesome” trombone links
Original webhosting provider was the Center for Music Research at Florida State University
Other webhosting up until 2000 came from CompuServe (well before their merger with AOL), GeoCities (well before their merger with Yahoo), MindSpring (well before their merger with EarthLink), and the Tallahassee FreeNet (which as of 2007 has ceased operations)
Around 1997 or 1998 a graphic designer was hired to create a set of logos which are mostly in use today and a site redesign that used Javascript, here’s a big shoutout to Crowson Design by the talented Don Crowson
Around 1997 or 1998 started using the trombone.net domain
Simplified site redesign around 1999 with a two tone two column look, sort of created a split personality for a short time. Probably in 2001 we started adding news headlines to the main page
After 2000 webhosting from MindSpring was changed to DotEasy and 1and1
Near the end of 2002 started using the awesometrombonelinks.net domain, and of course another change in how the site looks
After kicking and screaming about table layouts, the site was finally redesigned in 2007 with cascading style sheets, then further refined in 2008 with WordPress.