So, six years ago, I quickly put together a website for a singing group called LowDowns. The technology then was limited to .NET 1.1 and my experience was seriously lacking. Most of the site used HTML. The only .NET was written by my husband, which was used to create something a lot like 2.0's masterpages. The finished site was simplistic, had a limited area to work with, and wasn't much to look at.

So, the time had come. The site desperately needed an overhall. I was having troubles figuring out a decent layout, and then I found a neat tutorial to create buttons in Paint.NET. After going through this tutorial, I decided to base my design around these buttons.

The site looks much better now and has the ability to create more functionality in the future, unlike the previous version. Although the buttons could fall under the category of "mystery meat navigation" they add some personality to the site. The site utilizes .NET much more than the old site and the code is much easier to maintain.