Featured Demo
Converted from the original `Movie.wmv` so the archived page still has a working media centerpiece.
Home
A proper landing page for the archive instead of the broken `Error 402` export.
Reconstruction note: the original site depended on external ads, counters, hosted media, and toolbar services that no longer resolve cleanly. This rebuild keeps the voice, images, and page structure, but routes everything to local archive copies.
Archive Notes: a full reconstruction journal now lives alongside the site. It documents the original PowerPoint decks, the root and `wwwHome` branches, recovered imagery, and how the new transmission visuals reinterpret that material.
Archive Timeline
- March 2005: `Dave Dot v.2.ppt` starts the main site deck lineage.
- June-September 2005: `v.3`, `tbd`, logo, and update decks push the visual identity forward.
- February 2006: `Dimensions.pps` makes the fourth-dimension idea explicit before it lands in the later site navigation.
- March 2006: `Dave Dot v.4.ppt` and `v.pps` lock in the space-site navigation.
- Late 2006: root-level `index.html` and `home.htm` show a Blogger-style under-construction DaveDot landing page.
- 2006-2007: `wwwHome` grows into a live page set with FTP, search, homework, and sponsor pages.
- March 2007: `Welcome to David’s Homework Site.ppt` formalizes the password-gated school portal.
- August 2007: `index.ppt` reframes the site toward media and site features.
Space-site Version
The PowerPoint-era Dave Dot site was built as a mini sci-fi portal with sections for news, projects, worm holes, time travel, and black hole tracking.
School Work Branch
The school site split out into grades, assignment logs, and a gated `davids-school-files` area, all still preserved in the original exports.
Search Toolbar Era
The later site pivots toward downloadable toolbars and a site-local search bar. This rebuild turns that into a local archive search instead.
Earlier phase now included: the recreation now covers both the root-level Blogger/under-construction pages and the later `wwwHome` branch, instead of treating `wwwHome` as the whole story.
News
The earlier root-level `latest_news.html` phase preserved as a readable section instead of a detached raw file.
The Latest News
The surviving `latest_news.html` is a Blogger-style page rather than a big newsroom. Its core content is a short resource list and two DaveDot announcements.
DaveDot News: “Access your Gmail account” points to `mail.google.com`, and “Get the DaveDot Search Toolbar” points to the community toolbar download page.
News Sites
Root Phase
The root `index.html` and `home.htm` are even simpler: an under-construction landing page with Google, Blogger, and FreeDomain branding. That phase predates the fuller `wwwHome` branch and helps explain why the later site still carried sponsor badges and portal-style navigation.
School Work
The school-work branch is one of the clearest surviving pieces of the site.
Finished Assignments
| Assignment | Subject | Date | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| My Zune Media Player | Communication Speech 1 | Jan 16, 2007 | 75% |
| Guantanamo Prison | World Geography Current Event | Jan 12, 2007 | 100% |
| Current Event | World Geography Current Event | Jan 19, 2007 | 100% |
| Ch. 12 Vocab | Science Ch. 12 Vocab | Jan 18, 2007 | ?? |
| Test Review | Algebra 1 Test Review 1 | Jan 22, 2007 | ?? |
| Be a Sportscaster | Communication Practice Speech | Jan 12, 2007 | 90% |
Semester 2 Subjects
- Algebra — Jennifer Mason
- Integrated Physics & Chemistry — Rick Heaton
- Communication — Jimmy Matsler
- Theater Arts 1 — Don Zolidis
- Computer Applications — David Worley
- World Geography 1 — Jami Langford
- English 1 — Tiffany Cox
FTP Access
The archived site kept promising a user file area. This rebuild turns that into a readable local manifest.
Status: no active FTP users. Archive mode exposes the surviving files directly instead.
Public Files
Legacy Login Area
The `davids-school-files` branch survives as both raw ASPX pages and a saved `.mht` snapshot. The original password form was already failing when the archive was captured.
Search Bar
The old Conduit toolbar hook is replaced with a local archive search.
Matches page titles, deck names, and notable archive files.
PowerPoints
The original site logic starts in PowerPoint. These are the actual deck files, with locally rendered PDF previews.
Original Files
Direct links into the preserved root `DaveDot Files`, `wwwHome`, and PowerPoint trees.