BACK ON HOLD

THE LITTLE WEBSITE THAT WOULDN’T FLY

Back in 2020 during the great New Zealand coronahoax lockdown I used to make a point of getting outside and going for a walk every day, and I also spent a lot of time chilling out at empty beaches on days when the weather was OK.

As a result of that I not only got much fitter, but also had lots of time to contemplate my navel and have endless brilliant ideas.

About 20 years ago I had a website called www.sift.co.nz where I used to semi-anonomously post lots of stuff that might potentially freak out customers, but over time I lost interest in trying to maintain different online identities, and just started being my non government approved self all over the place, all linked to my easily traceable “Frot” name.

I always liked the way the Sift site looked with it’s cool logo and big bold coloured fonts on a black background, which was quite unusual for it’s time, so the idea of revamping the old site was appealing. Much of the style of my current blog www.frot.co.nz that I set up later was copied from it so there are a lot of similarities.

My plan with the Mk2 Sift site was to keep the original style but just use it like a scrapbook with big galleries of images and copy and paste posts of other people’s content that I liked. Meanwhile I would keep using the Frot site for posting my original content.

At the start of 2022 I finally got around to updating it and wrote an intro page – https://www.frot.co.nz/design/sift/home/sift/

But it never really worked out – primarily because the hits were absolutely appalling – a new site that is mostly images and very little text gets very little traffic, so it did nothing for the instant gratification of my ego and I just wasn’t very motivated to do the work to get it off the ground. It has sat here pretty much unused for the past eight months.

So I decided to give up my plan of making it awesome, and instead just copy most of the content as blog posts my www.frot.co.nz blog and put the Sift site back in the too much work basket. I’ll hang onto the domain name though because I still like it.

One of the galleries I did post here on Sift was “JAB REACTIONS” which was essentially a gallery of people who either died or became very ill after getting their death shots. And there are plenty more where those came from…

https://www.frot.co.nz/design/sift/home/galleries/jab-reactions/