2000
Fine Art
The earliest surviving site. Hand-authored, in an era when a page was a table and you wrote every tag yourself.
- Built with Hand-authored HTML tables
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Eight websites: the galleries that were real
Eight websites · 2000–2021 · Built by hand
Preserved as they were · Still running
One hundred and fifty-nine works in this catalogue are photographs of exhibitions that never happened. These are the galleries that did exist. He built all eight of them himself, between 2000 and 2021: portfolio sites, his own site under a working name, a page made with a grandson. Each is preserved exactly as it was, framework and all. They still run. Open any of them.
What the web was doing while he built
Each card is a broad era of web tooling, matched to the sites that fall in it. Select one to jump to them. This is context about the eras, not a record of what any one site was made with; for the sites below, that is stated only where it survives.
Hand-authored HTML
Every tag written by hand. Tables as layout. No frameworks existed yet.
2000
jQuery Era
JavaScript becomes usable. jQuery dominates for DOM manipulation. Mobile web emerging.
2014–2018
Adobe Muse (WYSIWYG)
Visual editors become viable. Desktop software exports to web. Bootstrap influences responsive design.
2015–2020
Bootstrap & Frameworks
Grid systems, pre-built components. CSS becomes systematic. Responsive design standard.
2020
Adobe Portfolio (Cloud)
Cloud platforms, hosted builders. No server management. Templates dominate.
2021
Context, not the record
2000s
CSS1 in mainstream, but JavaScript is still toy-level. Tables are grid layout. Mobile web doesn't exist. Speed means dial-up; bandwidth matters.
2010s
Mobile changes everything. Responsive design is new. jQuery dominates. Bootstrap launches 2011. "Flat design" reacts to Retina displays. CSS gains flexbox.
2020s
Frameworks fight it out: React, Vue, Svelte compete. CSS Grid lands. CSS-in-JS becomes standard. The "JavaScript framework as default" moment.
In order · opens the real site
The Eight
2014
JFSN 2014
A portfolio site.
- Built with not recordedThe site survives; the tooling that made it does not. No build files, framework tags or generator metadata remain in the capture — true of this entry and the two that follow (2016, 2018).
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2016
JFSN 2016
A portfolio site.
- Built with not recordedSame as JFSN 2014, above: the site survives but the tooling does not.
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2018
JFSN 2018
A portfolio site.
- Built with not recordedSame as JFSN 2014, above: the site survives but the tooling does not.
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2020
JFSN 2020
A portfolio site — by now the web had frameworks, and he used one.
- Built with Bootstrap
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2015
Mr. Snowmann
His own site under a working name — giclée prints of a recurring snowman figure.
- Built with Adobe Muse
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2018–2020
Sebastian · v1
Made with a grandson. The first version.
- Built with Adobe Muse
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copied 2021
Sebastian · v2
Made with a grandson. The most recent site in the collection, and the only one whose collaborator also appears in the catalogue.
- Built with Adobe Portfolio
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Earlier JFSN Websites
Preserved versions of jfsn.com that were live at different points in the site's history. These are not separate projects — they are earlier states of this one site. Both can be opened.
2026
JFSN 2026
The current live archive. Redesigned for preservation and discovery — archival aesthetic, unified metadata.
- Preserved — browsable
V32
JFSN V32
The previous generation. Data-driven design with catalogue search, filter system, and responsive grid layouts.
- Preserved — browsable