This is the very beautiful ::sniff:: story of the making of a website...
Once upon a time...
It all started in May, 2003. They were selling out domains with first names. My father got hooked immediately and told me that I should buy a domain with my name. Since the spelling of my name is pretty unusual, we were quite certain that it wouldn't already be taken.
www.josephin.se was chosen and on the 15th of May 2003 I had my own website to play around with.
Easier Said Than Done...
Oh, all the things I wanted to put on my homepage. I had all these ideas. That is, before I bought the website. Then when I was finally sitting there, in front of the computer, my head had turned into a great black hole of nothingness. All ideas had disappeared, and it was about this time that I also realized that I knew close to nothing about building a homepage. First of all, which program do you use? What the heck is html?! Dhtml? How do you make links? How do you put images up? How do you get the images to stay where you want them to be and not start floating around... I actually had a lot of these "floating" images. I put them in one corner and when I uploaded the page the image had of course moved to the other corner. There were images laying over other images - blocking them. I could see them, but they couldn't be seen on any other computers. Let's just say that it was a confusing first couple of days.
Fortunately, I'm A Quick Learner...
Through trial and error, I was stubbornly learning more and more. There is still more to learn and I discover something new every day. But now I know the basics. To my great relief (and it's a real time saver too) I can now write html. It actually makes some sense to me now. It doesn't merely look like a very complicated foreign language anymore. Thank God!
It's The Inside That Counts...
So they say. Boy, was I trying hard to live up to that. I wanted everything on my website. Useful links, not useful links, funny links, entertaining images, interesting stuff. After a while I realized that I was aiming a little tiny bit too high. So I settled with the main things; What I wanted on my website. Makes sense, huh? ;)
The Human Being Is Never Satisfied...
So my first layout came out, featuring cats. Then I learned some new functions and found some interesting websites on homepage building and no sooner had I uploaded the first version until I was working on the second. Version 2.0 was inspired by silence. I was going through a very hectic time and I wanted something I could escape to. Hence the name of that version, ::: Nowhere :::.
Version 3.0 was to follow. I worked hard with that layout. I was a little more familiar with the basic functions of website building, and could focus more on the artistic parts. Then came "Silent Lullaby", which was inspired by the warm weather in Australia, I guess. I experienced a big transition, moving from Sweden to Australia on the 11th of February; one of the major things being the weather. The layout is very simple and I guess it's more friendly to those who have low resolutions on their computers...
I'm now up to version 6.0 and I can see not only how my artistic taste but also my ability to manipulate html is displayed through the newer layouts. This webpage building is so much fun - if I can find the time...
And so, the website lived happily ever after...
Ahem... Well, as long as the webmaster managed to pay the bill for the domain...