My HTML History

Cool! I'm surprised you're coming here to read about how it all started but here goes...
I started with html the summer following my graduation from middle school, so I was 14 years old. I found that I had lots of spare time. A few of my friends told me that they were building "websites". I remember one of my friends telling me to go to Webmonkey.com to learn html. Well when I did I was just overwhelmed- even tried it but then gave up.

Another one of my friends, maybe a couple weeks later, told me about Expage.com so I tried that out. Expage was about as easy as it got! So I started building my website. When I began to write the code of my site- I used to go to other sites, view their codes, put it in Frontpage and tore everything apart to see exactly what everything did. That's how I began to learn. When Expage was getting to small for me, I started moving into other free web servers such as Chickpages, Tripod, Angelfire, Geocities, and more.

When those free servers also began to become too small- I begged my brother to buy me my own domain for my 16th birthday- and he did. I became the proud owner of Nancy-Land.com which sadly I no longer own =( Actually if a big like company hadn't bought it for nothing- I would have had nancy-land right now instead of girlmeetslife.com But anyways! I had lots of success with that site and I really miss it. After the contract for that ended.. nobody renewed my domain and I didn't have a credit card so I couldn't do it.

This past year I was really missing doing html and all that stuff and I was beginning to forget everything so I really wanted my site back. Unfortunately, I couldn't get nancy-land back because another company owns it but doesn't use it so I decided on the name girlmeetslife. I did receive lots of comments when it first started out- people calling me a bitch because I copied boymeetslife but he even left me a message telling me he was cool with it and thought it was great. But anyways, I had my boyfriend use his credit card for me and I gave him the money. I was so excited when I got it and I just enjoy having it. I think it's fun and it's a way for me to express myself. Hopefully I'll keep it when I continue onto college next year because I think it would be a waste to just let it go. I think as the years have gone by- I've gotten better than I was when I first started out. =)

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