History

Late 2006 – Late 2007

When I was nine or so years old, I decided I wanted a website. To be honest, I don’t know why I wanted one, but it was in 2006 I Googled it and found Freewebs, a freeserver now known as Webs.

On Webs, I used templates and had a flashy piece of shit that was to do with the games console Nintendo – except it was kind of more focused on glitters and music blaring every time you loaded a page. I got bored of it quickly and for obvious reasons no one visited, so I tried my chances and made another one called Rayfire, which was based on the novel I was writing at the time.

Early 2008

I signed up for that account, and continued to use templates. My designing skills were still pretty awful, however!
I shut it and revamped the whole thing. I kept everything as neat as I could (no glitters this time!) and started to blog a little – except my blogs were horrible.

Late 2008

After my 12th birthday, I heard about HTML. I was curious, so I tried it out, having learnt purely from the tutorials by my amazing friend Georgina at Heartdrops.org.

I left Rayfire behind after almost one year and three premade layouts using HTML. I opened a site called “More to Life”, but it didn’t last long because I didn’t update it much and the site name wasn’t unique.

Early 2009

I moved again, this time to Ephemeral Days. I started making my own (somewhat crappy) layouts, but they weren’t bad for a first attempt.
I was bored of Freewebs, and I hated being stuck there. I wanted a proper subdomain, and I felt brave enough to apply for hosting at Green Skies.

I converted to PHP and used FTP to host my files, and the site grew quite a bit.

May 2009

After entering a domain contest ‘for a laugh’, I came second and won myself a domain! I decided to take it up, so I would be hosted by Cristina.

June 2009

Cristina’s server had problems, and my site was deleted.

I got very bored being siteless, and somehow got talking to my Mum about my site. I told her I was siteless and I was after a domain (it was worth a shot before I tried subdomains again).
My Dad got involved and bought one for me – as a present for doing “well” in my end-of-year exams.

I instantly thought of Kya for free domain hosting, so I applied and, thankfully, got accepted.

I did try and continue with E.D, yet the whole thing was a 404, even when it was registered and I had my files into the database. (Plus I hated it as a .info). I ploughed through Namecheap and PayPal forms and pages and ended up with fluoresce.org. I will miss E.D so much though; it was the site that showed me everything I know.