The post is an announcement with two sentences of substance. The studio had been working on the site “for quite sometime now”, it “should be uploaded in a few days”, and the brief is stated plainly: “a very simple site done in xhtml, css some javascripts and php” whose concept was “to make it as simple and corporate as possible”. The closing line — “Your C&C’s are very much welcome” — is the old blog habit of asking for comments and corrections, which is also how the studio tagged its own work: the labels on this entry are chyuanchya, microsoft frontpage, photoshop, portfolio and web design.
The client is named by the design itself. The wordmark reads chyuan chya with the gold company under it, the navigation carries INVESTORS and STOCKS, and the About Us column explains the name: CHYUANCHYA is “translated from its Chinese words, which means Gold, Diamond over Ghana”, and because Ghana was the Gold Coast the site’s own copy resolves the phrase to The Gold Company. The listing is named after the client, and the unusual spelling is left exactly as the studio set it — CHYUANCHYA in the copyright line, chyuan chya in the wordmark, CHYUANCHYA.COM in the post title.
As a layout it is a 2009 corporate homepage in the full sense: a dark olive masthead band with the mark at one end and the navigation at the other, a mustard utility bar holding the search field, a white content band that pairs a gold masthead panel and the About Us extract with a render of stacked gold bars, and then a strip of five numbered tiles on a wood-grain ground, each with its own still-life image — a house model, a folded newspaper, a document and pen, a checklist with a downward arrow, a compass on a map. The numbering starts at 00, so the home page is one of the sections rather than above them.
The footer is the part worth a second look. Its credit line reads HANDCRAFTED AND POWERED BY REVIVAL.DESIGN+VFX.STUDIOS - the SEED.v1.2009 | Valid XHTML & CSS, which is the studio’s seed signature — the same device listed as the SEED wallpaper at v.1.0 in October 2009 and stamped THE.SEED.1.1..2010 across the 2010 GOIL frames — here typeset as a working site credit instead of drawn as artwork, and the first of the three that also carries a validation claim. The “Valid XHTML & CSS” badge text is period practice: a hand-coded page advertised itself by passing the W3C check.
What the archive does not hold is any later word on the site itself. One entry in a hundred and twenty-two mentions Chyuanchya, so the launch the post predicted is undocumented, and this listing keeps the announcement’s own position: a finished homepage design, one image, no screenshots of anything running. The tools are only those the labels name — Microsoft FrontPage and Photoshop — and the languages are only those the body names: XHTML, CSS, some JavaScript and PHP. Nothing else is inferred, and in particular the then-competing editor that this studio did not use is not written into the record.
The source post is on blogspot — coming soon! the new WWW.CHYUANCHYA.COM - WEB DESIGN, 29 September 2009.