About this Domain

How I Began Webdesigning

It's kind of silly, really. I was a kid when the world of Neopets was new, exciting, and very popular. I logged back in while typing this, and it looks like I joined Neopets in 2002. Wow, it's unbelievable that Neopets has been thriving for so long and is still standing. Anyway, users on Neopets had the option of customizing their profiles, "shops," and "guilds," each of which we could use HTML and CSS on. So that's where I started learning some coding to make my pages pretty. After getting a basic hold on coding, I started my first webpage, which was a website for my guild.

Then it hit me that I should create my very own personal website. I named it "Pink Mist" and (surprise) decided to give it a pink theme. It had a lot of random stuff about myself and a lot of random content that was supposed to entertain the visitor. I can't remember too well what my first one was like, but I can vaguely remember a couple of my first layouts and they were pretty terrible. I give my 13 year old self some major props, though, for figuring out how to make my own website (complete with image maps and everything!) while everyone else my age was more interested in watching TV.

I'd say I went through at least 7 free webhosting sites. And the free hosting scene back then was bombarded with tons of ads and slow servers. I don't know what free hosts are like nowadays, but after my fair share of free webhosting sites I never want to go back.

One great thing about the young webdesigning community is the generous and friendly people out there. Many personal websites I've come across are very open about giving free hosting on their paid hosting plan to those who need it. I had my site hosted by three of such people. I have lost contact with them and their sites do not exist anymore, but I still remember their names. They were Maggi, Mandy @ Rainbow-Dreams/Grunge-Kitty, and Amber @ Grumblebee. I was first hosted by Maggi on April 5th, 2003.

Off On My Own!

As you can see, I am now on my own at fadedout.com. It was the best solution. Really, it was the only solution for me at the time because I had to change hosts every month and I didn't want to deal with that anymore. My brother bought me hosting from Blue Host and this domain for my birthday, December 22, in 2005. It was a wonderful thing, having my site on a reliable paid host. I made the root directory of Fadedout.com a collective, listing all of the many sites I had opened up and maintained.

That was Then, This is Now

However, after nearly five quality years with Blue Host, we just can't really afford $100 a year for webhosting that I haven't really been using to its full potential. So now I am back to taking advantage of free hosting from wonderfully generous people (Currently SupahStar.net), but I have registered the domain name myself under Namecheap.

The site has been fully revamped, with me getting rid of the collective and merging any content I still wish to keep into my blog for simplicity and ease of updating. So that was my very long history, and I am glad to have written all of it down for records and memories :)