New Website Design

Published 11/9/2024

Mikeware Website

Welcome to our new website design! We figured it was time for a refresh to coincide with our new logo and Mikeware 3.0. Interestingly, this is the 3rd major revamp of our website!

Jumping Back in Time

We thought it was a good opportunity to revisit the history of our website as well, just as we did with our logo. We nearly forgot, but before Mikeware.com, there was MWInnovation.com, this image is from July 19th, 2001:

The MWInnovation Website Header

Unfortunately, this page wasn't archived, and we don't believe we have its original source. It would have been very simplistic at the time.

2002 - Mikeware.com Begins

A year later, on June 30th, 2002, we purchased Mikeware.com; If we recall correctly, before us, it may at one point have sold foreign magazines? Originally, after we purchased the site, it just had a simple black background website with our logo as a placeholder:

The Mikeware 2001 'Door' logo.

2006 - 1st Revamp - Fully Functional

We then did a major revamp of our website on May 23rd, 2006 introducing the Mikeware Seal, better organized and presented content, and more POV-Ray 3D graphics:

Archive image of Mikeware's website in 2006 near its initial release

2010 - 2nd Revamp - Wordpress

That website was replaced in October 2010 with our WordPress based blog, though it wasn't until Aug 19th, 2011 that we started considering it ready to go and no longer "Under Construction". Here it is before it was replaced with this new design:

Archive image of Mikeware's website in 2024 before it was replaced with the current one.

2024 - 3rd Revamp - Wyam! This one!

We took inspiration from the invite image for our new Discord Server, and tweaked it into our new website header:

New Mikeware Website Header Banner

There are a lot of easter eggs hidden in the image based on our back catalog of projects, and even more so in the Discord image. We hope to continue to bring past projects to our "new" itch.io page - we created it on Aug 29th, 2021 for OddBall (originally released April 24, 2017 for Ludum Dare 38), but recently added more past projects last month.

We'll be working on some further improvements and importing prior blog content over the coming weeks, so excuse us while the dust settles!

And, once again, welcome to the new Mikeware!