I fell in love with bagatelles in 1997. Within 2 years I had acquired about 100 spanning the years between 1890 and 1990. They come from every corner of North America. I have my favorites but I love how they are mirrors of the values and popular topics of each decade they represent.
This website was not publicly available, it was an intranet built for myself and a few other enthusiastic collectors. It contained a database of bagatelles that I owned and saw on eBay. It allowed me to collect bagatelles virtually! Still, I made an effort to give it a nice UX and user experience. It was built in ASP and connected to a MS Access database.
Here are a few screenshots of the management interface.
Adding a new bagatelle was easy and the interface allowed for a picture upload.
In 2001 I created a web service that would automatically manage errors across all my sites sending me an e-mail every time one was encountered. Before that, I had custom pages asking the user questions. It would also be sent through e-mail.
I used to be a bit obsessed with registration forms. I spent a considerable amount of time testing how many fields a human could see before deciding that it was too time-consuming to go on with the registration process. That number seemed to be 4… that’s it, just 4! Of course this site was by invitation only so it wasn’t an issue.
A small part of my collection of bagatelles in situ
