White Squadron's very first Homepage, when we stuck our nose out of FSCOMBAT in CompuServe and made our first careful steps into the Internet.

When Jane Nagatomi retired as Webmaster and White CO we just moved Jane's original page to another Geocities Account, before moving the page further on to Sherry's Ourworld Webspace on CompuServe. Meanwhile I worked on refurbishing the page design. My HTML-skills at that time were just rudimentary and I've never been an artist. So the entire result was laughable at best. Here is one of the first drafts of the start-page and I think we even dared to go public with it <g>. 

After learning a little more about HTML and JavaScript I finally overhauled the startpage some time down the road. It was probably in April of 1997. Also, with the Ourworld Webspace being unaccessible more often than not we decided to move to http://www.benimar.com/white_squadron. I think we kept the design of this particular startpage for almost a year until we switched over to the frameless Datapad-Style with the Frigate in the middle. This particular copy of the page is almost complete and most of the links should work. It was backed up at the time when the startpage with the frameless Datapad-Style Frigate went public.

This particular example was just a try to add a little more life to the startpage. I wanted a frame-like behaviour for the center of the page, where an animation was supposed to run. But without a frameset, which was the real challenge behind it. So I tried different approaches, like imbedding a browser call inside the document, used an Applet (took too long to load) and finally switched to the <IFRAME>-Tag, which got the job done. If you happen to use Internet-Exploder. Netscape users saw just the same old, same old page. :o)

The animation itself consisted of a little HTML and JavaScript, nothing flashy yet. With 70% of the visitors using Netscape at that time I thought it was pretty pointless to put more effort in that type of design and removed it quickly afterwards, switching back to the older design without the imbedded frame.

In April 98 White Squadron faded away and we made our transition to Wolfshead Squadron and another URL change occured. So most references to White Squadron were removed from the webpage (unless where they were required in a historical sense). This is the oldest copy of the first Wolfshead webpage that survived all the transitions from one computer to another.