Err, it's a festival web-site. It started as a way of showing the mates I go to Reading with just how pissed they got each year, and recording what everyone got up to. Then I used it to keep them informed as to who was playing. It just grew from there as more people became aware of it and it got registered on search engines and web directories. Some people even seem to like it... It takes all sorts, I guess.
This site was created using the following hardware:
Apple Macintosh G4/933 with:
• 512Mb RAM
• 80Gb hard drive
• 17" Apple LCD studio display
• UMAX Powerlook II scanner
Apple Macintosh G3/300 with:
• 256Mb RAM
• 6Gb Hard drive
• 19" Hitachi monitor
• UMAX Astra 2200SU scanner with tranny adaptor
• Pace 56k modem
• Iomega Zip650 CD-RW (for back-up)
Most of the pics were taken with various disposable cameras, which give surprisingly good results. They are also idiot-proof, which is just as well, really. Recent pics have been shot with a Canon Ixus V2 digital camera.
This is the software used:
• Apple OS 8.1 (cool operating system)
• Apple OS 9.04 (cooler operating system)
• Apple OS 9.2 (even cooler operating system)
• Apple OS 10.3 (Panther) (coolest ever OS)
• Apple OS 10.4 (Tiger) (OSX just gets better!)
• Adobe Photoshop 5.01 (image editing)
• Adobe Photoshop 6 (more image editing)
• Adobe Photoshop 7 (even more image editing)
• Adobe Photoshop CS (yet more image editing)
• Extensis PhotoFrame 2 (plug-in for image borders)
• GoLive CyberStudio 3.0 (site creation)
• Adobe GoLive 4.01 (site creation)
• Adobe GoLive 5 (site creation)
• Adobe GoLive CS (site creation)
• Macromedia Freehand 9 (maps)
• Photovista (QTVR panoramas)
• GifBuilder 0.5 (animated gifs)
• Netscape Communicator 4.7 (browser - for
Guestbook and counter provided free by
the excellent people at Bravenet
Forum provided and hosted by ProBoards.
The site is hosted by Easyspace.
The body font is Arial/Arial Black.
The headline font is Frazzle, and is available for Macs from FONTASTIC! along with loads of other cool fonts. All at low, low prices, folks. Some are even free...
For what it's worth, all images and words within this site are copyright Fat Reg, unless otherwise stated. Probably. Dan came up with the "Jazz, Blues, Rock and Sad Indie Shite" slogan years ago, but without me it would have stayed festering in some forgotten corner of his brain, so I took it and set it free. Sometimes it's better that way...
Curious facts and stuff
fatreg.com used to be a Lycos "recommended" site, but seems to have lost that status. Perhaps it was something I said. It is, however, still Netscape's top-rated Reading Festival site, as chosen by their team of editors. Thanks, Netscape guys!
Visitor tracking stats show that while a lot of people have found fatreg.com by using the obvious "Reading Festival" as a search term, a worrying number have found it through entering "fat pictures" into search engines. Hope they weren't disappointed...
Thanks to everyone who's signed the guestbook - your comments are much appreciated. Especially all of you offering to buy me beer - at this rate, I won't have to go to the bar myself all weekend at Reading.
Saturdays generally see fewer visitors to fatreg.com than any other day of the week. Guess everyone has far better things to do at the weekend. Or perhaps everyone browses when they're meant to be working?
Monday April 23, 2001 - the day the first official announcement was made about Reading 2001 - saw a staggering 484 visitors to fatreg.com. Thanks, guys!
Even that was bettered on Thursday May 24, 2001 when 502 of you checked out the site!
But even that was eclipsed on Tuesday May 29, 2001 when the site saw an amazing 575 visitors.
Wednesday August 22, 2001 - the day before the festival - saw 638 visitors. That's about one person in every 80 that went to the festival... some of you probably tripped over me in the arena.
Monday April 29, 2002, however, saw an incredible 915 of you checking out the first details of the line-up.
| August 22, 2005 | Bootlegs page added |
| August 22, 2005 | Reading 2004 review added |
| July 7, 2005 | Festival prices updated on Timeline |
| June 9, 2004 | CSS implemented on home page |
| April 30,2004 | Who's who page updated - it works now... |
| April 28,2004 | Reading 1990 review added |
| April 27,2004 | Reading 1991 review added |
| April 20,2004 | New ProBoards forum added |
| February 8,2004 | fatreg.com records visitor number 150,000 |
| August 26,2003 | Reading 2003 review added |
| August 5,2003 | Willow 2003 review added |
| July 29, 2003 | Reading 2002 review finally makes an appearance |
| July 15, 2003 | fatreg.com moves to its own dedicated server |
| June 10, 2003 | Links page updated |
| June 6-9, 2003 | Downloads updated |
| May 15, 2003 | Reading 1986 page updated |
| Oct 22, 2002 | Site re-designed with frame-based navigation |
| July 23, 2002 | fatreg.com records visitor number 100,000. Thank you! |
| July 15, 2002 | Ozzfest 2002 page added |
| July 8, 2002 | Reading and Leeds 2002 desktop pictures added |
| June 25, 2002 | Festival A to Z page added |
| April 20, 2002 | fatreg.com records 75,000th visitor |
| April 19, 2002 | fatreg.com records 915 visitors in one day |
| January 20, 2002 | fatreg.com records 60,000th visitor |
| November 8, 2001 | Reviews page added |
| September 30, 2001 | fatreg.com records 55,000th visitor |
| September 24, 2001 | Crystal Palace 1985 Anti-heroin page added. |
| September 16, 2001 | Reading 2001 review added. Front page simplified. Survival page re-organised |
| August 22, 2001 | fatreg.com records 50,000th visitor - 638 visitors that day alone. Well, it was the day before the festival |
| July 15, 2001 | fatreg.com records 40,000th visitor - by a strange quirk of fate, that visitor was Fat Reg... |
| July 2, 2001 | Arena map added to Directions page |
| June 26, 2001 | Five new sites added to the Links page Timeline page added |
| June 25, 2001 | AC/DC at Milton Keynes page added. Reading Festival directions page added |
| June 25, 2001 | fatreg.com records 35,000th visitor |
| June 21, 2001 | Downloads page added |
| June 21, 2001 | Ozzfest 2001 page added |
| June 9, 2001 | fatreg.com records 30,000th visitor |
| May 29, 2001 | fatreg.com records 25,000th visitor |
| May 16, 2001 | fatreg.com records 20,000th visitor |
| May 13, 2001 | fatreg.com records 19,000th visitor |
| May 10, 2001 | fatreg.com records 18,000th visitor |
| May 6, 2001 | fatreg.com records 17,000th visitor |
| May 3, 2001 | fatreg.com records 16,000th visitor. I can hardly keep up! |
| May 1, 2001 | Reading line-up poll added |
| April 30, 2001 | fatreg.com records 15,000th visitor |
| April 26, 2001 | fatreg.com records 14,000th visitor |
| April 23, 2001 | fatreg.com records 13,000th visitor |
| April 22, 2001 | Links page updated |
| April 20, 2001 | fatreg.com records 12,000th visitor |
| April 12, 2001 | fatreg.com records 11,000th visitor |
| April 1, 2001 | fatreg.com records 10,000th visitor |
| March 29, 2001 | Ozzfest 1998 page added |
| March 27, 2001 | Tribal Gathering 1996 pages added |
| March 22, 2001 | fatreg.com records 9000th visitor |
| March 13, 2001 | "Tell your mates about fatreg.com" service added |
| March 12, 2001 | fatreg.com records 8000th visitor |
| February 28, 2001 | fatreg.com records 7000th visitor |
| February 14, 2001 | News archive added. Crap pics page added |
| February 11, 2001 | fatreg.com records 6000th visitor |
| January 11, 2001 | Festivals 2001 page added and home page updated. |
| January 4, 2001 | Links page updated |
| December 12, 2000 | Reading 1983 page added |
| October 18, 2000 | 29 new links added |
| October 9, 2000 | Reading 1982 page updated |
| October 3, 2000 | Reading 2000 review completed |
| September 27, 2000 | Reading 2000 micro-site, with QTVR panoramas |
| August 21, 2000 | Forum added, weather report added |
| August 8, 2000 | 13 new links added. Reading line-ups revised |
| July 27, 2000 | Comedy stage for Reading 2000 and nine links added |
| July 26,2000 | Six new links added to Links page. Recent site history added to index page |
| July 18,2000 | Survival guide added |
| July 14,2000 | Links updated. Traditions page added |
| July 12, 2000 | Links page updated. Site history added |
| July 11, 2000 | V96 page added |
| July 10, 2000 | Big Day Out 1999 page added |
| July 6, 2000 | Reading 1992 pages added |
| June 29, 2000 | Countdown to Reading applet added |
| June 28, 2000 | Guestbook added |
| June 27, 2000 | Reading 1982 page added. Update to links page |
| June 19, 2000 | Who's who page sorted out so the DHTML works properly. Still slow to load, though. Sorry... I'll re-make it as a frames-based page one day. Maybe |
| April-June 2000 | Various pages added. That's useful information... |
| April 12, 2000 | Domain www.fatreg.com purchased |
| March 2000 | First pages designed and uploaded to web |
