Who's Sham? What's ShamWerks?
Sham :
My real first name is Jean-Michel (but everybody calls me "Jim"... except the Tax Office though!😁), I'm about 50 years, 10 month, 27 days, 11 hours and 18 minutes old at the time you read this. I live on the French Riviera, in southern France.
"Sham" is a nickname I gave myself around 1989 to sign my drawings, doodles, graffitis, etc...
Sham is the short for "Shaman", and it sounded like "Sham-One". Anyway, my friends at the university started calling me Sham, and after it kept on during my jobs... There was a time when a lot of people didn't even know my real first name!
ShamWerks :
"Werks", in German, means "Work", or "Factory" ; the VolkswagenWerk, for example, is the VW factory...
As this site presents my works, in different domains, and as my favorite mechanics are of German origin...
ShamWerks is my Workshop Journal! 👍
My objective here is to share my different realisations, I'm no expert in any domain, but I hope my experiences can help or inspire others.
I know this site looks like a blog, but I prefer quality to quantity, providing an original, useful, and homemade content... Which negatively impacts my publication frequency - if you want to follow my project, you better be very patient! 😁
Technically, I've been coding this site by hand on a PHP/MySQL platform since its inception. Maybe one day I'll migrate over to WordPress, but I've never been able to get it to do exactly what I wanted. 😅
History :
Let's do some online archeology :1996
My first steps on the Web occur in '96 with a site named "Good Morning Net'naaaaam", hosted by Geocities... There's still a trace of it at Archive.org!
1998
1998, I give birth to "Da Sham's Webpage", the v1.0 being hosted at Citeweb (hosting site now disappeared), until late 1999 :
2001
The v2.0 appears on a new hosting site ; Free :
2003
The v.3.0 will appear in June 2003, dropping the framed design :
2006
10 years after my first appearance online, here is the v4.0, and to celebrate this anniversary, it gets own domain name : welcome on ShamWerks.com! Layout width goes up from 760px to 977px, and the site is now fully responsive to be mobile-friendly.
2026
ShamWerks' design was almost 20 years, and in dire need for a revamp. Here comes V.5.0 : improved readability (I'm getting old myself and started having trouble reading my own article! 😅), layout width extended to 1240px (the average screen size has increased quite a bit in 2 decades), and the navigation now uses dynamic loading instead of pagination (#doomscroll).
Gosh... 30 years online as you're reading this, this site is now officially an Internet Dinosaur! 😁
Published on 21/09/2006 / 7 commentaires