Six years ago, after having officially been surfing the net for about 8 months, I logged on one day and decided I wanted to make my very own website. Granted, I hadn’t a clue in heaven how to do that, but I thought I’d give it a shot.
Back in those days free web service were much more reliable, and pretty much ad free. I acquired some space at geocities and l began. At the time geocities had a WYSIWYG editor. And being that I never had even heard of HTML, WYSIWYG worked for me. So I used it and I created my very first website.
All about faeries.
It was awful. I must have covered every taboo that a first-timer could make. Brightly colored text on a black background with lots of colored stars. Blinking animated stars and faeries everywhere. No site flow or proper navigation to speak of. I only wish I still had it in it’s original form. It would be perfect to show my students on what NOT to do when making a web site.
Anyway, it was god-awful, but I loved it. It was mine, and I made it all by myself. But I soon grew tired of WYSIWYG, and my brightly colored site (all of it’s images were blatantly TAKEN from other sites as well). So I assigned myself to learning HTML, and to becoming familiar with this crazy Photoshop program someone had installed on my computer (PS 4.0 at the time). And I redid my site completely. With my own code, and my own HTML. I was so proud.
Little did I know at the time it would spark my interest in web design and computer illustrating. Little did I know that 6 years later I would end up where I am today. All because of my little faery site.
I stopped updating the site years ago. But due to pure nostalgia I could never let it go. So I kept it up on geocities until I got my own domains, then put it up there just for safe keeping. Just to go back and look at it for the fun of it.
And so today I present it to you. A little peek into the beginning of my web career. You are welcome to come in, but I will ask you to leave your shoes at the door, and please don’t move anything. It’s a historical area *grin*
The Enchanted Realm of Mystiq Rose
It’s fun to look at, even though it is a little strange. I will warn you though, if you venture to far in you will probably get lost. It has a LOT of pages.
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Very cute. But, where’s the MC Fairy?? I thought you invented her.
Lol re: AuntAnnie’s comment.
I love the site. It’s like going into the Internet Archives (like Yahoo back in 96: http://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://www2.yahoo.com/)
You showed quite a bit of talent huh, even from the beginning. Tis a pity I’ve lost all my archives, though strangely Geocities has kept my space even several years after I’ve ditched it…
Wow. Six years ago… I was still gawking at Apple Macintoshes and playing Corsair… Illo the old timer
(no offence)
aww I love it. Thank you for sharing.
It’s really cute !! You should se MY first web site. Pink pink and more pink… with roses and sparkles.. OMG it was sooooooo hillarious !!!
Oooh, is that the MC fairy? She really is cute. You should offer that illustration to BE so everyone can see her when winning MCs