My second ever domain.. I actually had a domain when I was little, back in the DBZ craze and what not.  I still remember those old websites like “dbgtn.com” and “dbgt.com.”  How I got into this design mess?  Its a long story, but so will this post be.   So back to the story, back in the day, Dragon Ball Z was where everything was at. 

I made a couple of DBZ websites on Geocities, yes that mess.  I did some checking on my old websites, and guess what? They are still there.  One of them was “Xeo DBZ,” but.. they deleted it.. Darn them Geocities people.. Anyways, I made my many websites using Frontpage, Notepad, and Internet Explorer.  My layout designs were based off of old Photoshop techniques, tables (yes tables..), and iFrames.  I was still into DBZ for a couple of years-months, but how did I really get into this design mess?  After clicking into one of my DBZ inspirational sites, I saw that the layout was actually created by this guy named “Chris Dang,” his original website “Halovision” had stopped production I believe.  I clicked on some links on his website, which lead me to many more design websites with the same style to different varieties of styles.

With this much inspiration, I decided to make myself different things on Photoshop.  But not knowing how, I looked up some tutorials, which in turn led me to making different wallpapers.  Slowly building up my portfolio, I gained a vast knowledge of Photoshop skills and different taste in design. 

So from then and now, I had gone off of web designing, waiting for some sort of inspiration, but when I came back, I found out that tables, were no longer necessary.  Entering the world of CSS, I stumbled upon a website called “CSS Reboot.”  Most of the websites their had these strange validation links, and when I clicked on it, they said “Fully Validated HTML,” I was like, “WOOOWW (Not really, but I was impressed that people care about their coding).” 

Stumbling upon multiple layouts, I could not see the use of CSS.  But with the help of Firefox’s Developer Tools, I disabled CSS, revealing the organization and the complexity of CSS.  Everything in a list, is actually IN a list.  And content is organized with certain tags and such.  I noticed that my knowledge of CSS is somewhat above average, but the websites I saw were well beyond average.  Starting to code in CSS, I had a rough transition in Dreamweaver.  Currently, I am able to visionize a design and organize how the coding will look like, but back then, I couldn’t code without looking at a few tutorials.

Now that I am here where I am today, with my second purchased domain, I can blog on here forever, and speaking of which, I still have to do my school work.. Haha.

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