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The Beginning:

It was a normal day. Middle School. Tweenagers galore. My friends and I got it into our heads that we were good at website design. Of course, out of all of them, I was undoubtedly the best. Just because I'd actually, like, USED angelfire and freewebs and all that crap before. So. I was put in charge of creating a website that could represent all three of us. What exactly it was going to represent wasn't exactly clear to us, but it didn't matter. As long as we had a website and it looked cool, everything would be alright.
The History:

"You're a great Artist" was what people'd always said. And being the proud child I was, I always believed them. It probably wasn't until early middle school when I realized that there was something else that existed-- the "internet". And once on the internet, I was hooked.

Somewhere somehow I stumbled onto web design. Alright, I'll admit it. It was neopets. Designing your own petpage? Pleeease. Drove me nuts. I didn't understand html at all, front or back, and I ended up copying/pasting text and getting mad when it didn't work. In any case, I began my history in web design as a tween (I admit it-- and I bet most of you other designers know too).

It helped that people considered web design artistic. Of course it was an art, but I didn't realize that it was a different field until I grew older (haha. Don't worry, I find it funny too). In any case, I started various websites. First, I used templates provided by the host (freewebs has a host of templates) and just copy/pasted what I wanted into the templates. Most of them were about nothing, just random stuff just so I can post something. Others were about my stories, and just some really weird things. None of them lasted long, and I never put much effort into them.

But when my friends and I hatched our plan to make a website, I was determined. I tried to find a webserver more advanced then freewebs and came upon hostultra. And when I signed up for an account here, I never realize how long it was going to last.


The End:

I worked really hard on it. Really hard. I dabbled into every field possible, from CSS to HTML to JAVA, trying to get the site pretty and preppy and cool. It was one of the biggest endeavors I'd ever done, first being that it was the first time I'd used an iFRAME extensively, and second because it was also the first time I'd used pop-ups. I was proud of my work, of course. More than two weeks were spent on that site, and I loved it like a baby.

Then, tragedy struck.

Hostultra failed. Kaploom. Servers crashed, every one of them, and 2/3 of all sites were wiped clean. Including mine. I was only a tween--I had no backup.

Of course I was infuriated! Crushed! I never told my friends what had happened, and they'd simply assumed I'd lost interest in the project and we moved on into Narutardism. But even still, the blank canvas of this site was left as a reminder of all it once was.

The New Start:

Years later. My friends and I are no longer together, not in the personal sense but in the physical. We're states and states apart now. Blame the bad economy. In any case, prepping for the future, I become more interested in expanding my art field. The biggest way to expand art from the web into the real world (tangible, REAL, money. Like, green, baby) was through commissions.

That, and spreading your art, but spreading your art without a commission list and info was pretty pointless.

Perhaps I could have made more use of my deviantArt. It'd be simpler, for one. But I'm not subscribed, and never plan to, and advertising art without the use of images is such a pain. That, and all the pictures on there are old, anyway. I never post my sketches.

Then, the diabolical plan is hatched. Design my own website and sell art there. Brilliant. But using a website just for selling art seemed pointless. So I expanded. Include my stories (which I can never keep straight). My Contact. Just give me a homepage.

I wander back into the ruins of my old childhood website. It was completely blank, you know. But the memories of what this site once was fused my perseverance to rebuild it-- better, bigger, more oriented.

And, just for me, of course.

That was probably more history than you wanted to know right? Moving on.