Archive for 2006
September 10 2006: Interview: Becky of Babblative
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Interviewing: Becky of Babblative
Explanation: the purpose of these interviews was to get to know certain webmasters in my little ‘blog circle’ a little better - to see what inspired them to create the designs and sites that they did. They would be given ten questions via email - five of these were standard questions that were asked of all the interviewees, while the other five were tailored to fit them as an individual.
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.
September 4 2006: Interview: Jon of Honest Truth Reviews
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Interviewing: Jon of Honest Truth Reviews
Explanation: the purpose of these interviews was to get to know certain webmasters in my little ‘blog circle’ a little better - to see what inspired them to create the designs and sites that they did. They would be given ten questions via email - five of these were standard questions that were asked of all the interviewees, while the other five were tailored to fit them as an individual.
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.
September 1 2006: Interviews With Site Owners
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The first of these interviews was posted up in September 2006, back at my previous domain.
Basically, the purpose of these interviews was to get to know certain webmasters in my little ‘blog circle’ a little better - to see what inspired them to create the designs and sites that they did. They would be given ten questions via email - five of these were standard questions that were asked of all the interviewees, while the other five were tailored to fit them as an individual.
I’ve been a bit slack with the interviews since (at the rate of one a year…), but they’re entertaining nonetheless.