Artifacts
Logos, early pages, screenshots, rate sheets and polls from Jason’s QueensWest.com files.
The earliest page in Jason’s files is the server-side-include template the site launched with: sections for the Neighborhood, Citylights (FAQ, pictures, discussion), Discussions, Classifieds, Help, About and Links, and a footer reading “QueensWest.com is a production of Digital Wild Fire, Content Copyright 1998.” By 2001 the footer read “Blue Wild Fire.”
Rendered in 2026 from the original files; the images that were missing from the folder are left blank.
The “Long Island / QueensWest.com” logo, the skyline header banner and the later “new skyline” header, from Jason’s artwork folders.
December 8, 2001 and December 2003. The 2001 screenshot shows the advertising of the time as it ran.
QueensWest.com was paid for by local sponsors. The rate sheets record what the site offered and how it described its audience (for example, the 2009 sheet quotes January 2009 traffic of over 12,000 unique visitors and 2,500 registered members). They are shown as history only; no client or billing records are published.
From its first months the site ran polls (“Send future poll suggestions to Polls@queenswest.com,” January 1999). Jason saved 48 results graphics.
The three polls of the 2007–2008 site (questions and choices, from the database).
From 2007 the site sold QueensWest.com postcards, buttons, magnets and T-shirts. The store page as it last stood.