Archive for 2006
October 17 2006: Interview: Rose of Sillyish (Impish)
Interviewing Rose of Sillyish (aka Impish)
How old were you when you first discovered the joy of web design? How did you discover it?
I first got involved in web design when I was in grade five (1996? 97?), however old that was. After some rough calculation, this probably means I was either eleven or twelve. At the beginning of grade five, I didn’t even know what the internet was, let alone that you could actually make your own websites. I remember this guy giving us a web address, and I didn’t even understand what he was doing. Everyone else did, though - I was mighty embarrassed, and determined to get a computer as soon as possible.
I didn’t have long to wait, as my uncle, sick of my mom making up excuses as to why she didn’t buy a computer, bought us an Apple computer for Christmas. Yay for uncle!
Anyway, once we got a computer, the rest was really history. I found that GURL website (which still exists, I think) That GURL website introduced the very basics of HTML - things like <font> and <I> “Holy crap!” I thought to myself, “Hotness!” So then I began to learn from davesite.com, which also still exists, amazingly.
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October 13 2006: Interview: Skye of Skyefairy
Interviewing Skye of Skyefairy
How old were you when you first discovered the joys of webdesign? How did you discover it?
I didn’t have a computer until I was 15 and that was also the first internet-access-in-the-home that I had. We first got that in August of ‘02, my friend Sarah dragged me into Neopets in September or October, and I created my first Angelfire site (Skye’s Own Little World) in October or November (again because of the same friend). It was the usual “she has one, I want one” thing but for some reason I got hooked. Sarah and Effie (another friend) taught me basic HTML and I kept learning on my own, basically through going through coding and seeing what it did. SOLW started out as just my poetry because that was my current obsession; it grew to accept submissions because a visitor asked if I would post hers. What would have happened if she hadn’t? I have no idea how I discovered the graphics community as we know it. All I know is that I began using premade designs and editing them to my needs; I remember Darkmis 29, Aethereality, Enchanted, and a site that had a perpetual layout featuring Stitch. In January of 2004 I made my first layout that was mine (complete with CSS copied from some premade; though many look down on it, that is how many people start out before learning) featuring Amy Lee. Picture maroon red content area on a black background with black text. Uh-huh; that bad.
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September 29 2006: Interview: Vixx of Furious Angel
Interviewing Vixx of Furious Angel
How old were you when you first discovered the joy of webdesign? How did you discover it?
Ah, Christ, do I really have to answer that? It just makes me sound heart-sinkingly ancient compared to everyone else in the world. Can’t I just say younger than your parents, but older than most people reading this? No? Well, okay; it was 2003, I was 26, heavily into my pregnancy and desperately trying to whittle away my insomnia. I’d been working with Dave, one of my online BBFs and co-founder of SHH, for a little time. We had a system where I wrote the site and he designed it but everytime I wanted to add something or fix a typo, I had to go through him, as I was terrified of inadvertently messing something up. In an attempt to learn a little more, I created a site of my own as a subdomain at http://silenthillheaven.com. It was fucking awful, if my memory serves me right.
A few weeks after I bought my first domain, http://excessmoderation.com, and I set up a small personal subdomain there called ‘Exposed’, and a few months after that moved my personal site to a domain of its own, http://so-complicated.net, at which point I really threw myself into learning more about coding.
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