Archive for September, 2006
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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September 10 2006: Interview: Becky of Babblative
Interviewing Becky of Babblative
How old were you when you first discovered the joy of web design? How did you discover it?
Well I was probably around thirteen, we’d just gotten our new computer and I, having outgrown the Archie Comics site, had turned to online forums for amusement. Up until I joined Buffyworld late in 2001 I had thought that having a website was only for the elite members of the internet, something that only the best of the best could do, so I never really went anywhere with my ideas for a site. That impression was fostered by the people at the wonderful /cough/ NOLF forums from around the web.
Joining Buffyworld, a community that was on the fringes of the teen web community (such as the VortexMB, nu/mb, DisasterMB and RadiantMB circles), really opened my eyes up to what I could do. Almost immediately after finding out that you could host a site for free (ah free, my favourite word) I set up my first webpage on Geocities, I believe you can still see some of my early stuff on /spuffyforever2003 and /rileyhater2003.
The really embarrassing part was that I opened a site so I could have my own personal Spuffy fanfiction archive. That later morphed into a personal Spuffy fanfiction archive and then a fanart site and then a blog.
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September 4 2006: Interview: Jon of Honest Truth Reviews
Interviewing Jon of Honest Truth Reviews
How old were you when you first discovered the joy of web design? How did you discover it?
You know, I can’t even remember how old I was when I first started designing my own web pages. Was I ten-years-old? Twelve? Nine? Beats me. All I know is that it was a longgg time ago. A quick WHOIS check reveals that my first domain was purchased in 2003, but I had been making web pages for at least a year or two before that. After some quick mental math, I’m guessing I was around ten-years-old, give or take a year, when I first started pumping out the ol’ HTML. And, like most ten-year-olds, I discovered the wonderful world of Disney–I mean, web design–by puttering around on Neopets. Go figure. I had a Neopets help site for a bit, and I remember bright chartreuse backgrounds (I loved chartreuse) and huge image files. Life was good.
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