Yes, this is what I see every time I want to upload my site or edit anything. It isn't wonderful, and it isn't always perfect and clear, but I'm learning. This site's (and Glitter Gear's) history isn't exactly interesting, but it's a satisfactory tale.
Well, I found the Chocolate Creme dollmaker one boring summer day just sitting around playing Neopets and doing nothing inparticular. Now, before that, I loved putting dolls that other people made onto my site, just for decoration. So naturally I was pleased to find this particular site. I began making dolls with it, but all too soon, I had this huge file full of dolls and nothing to do with it/them. What do I do? I begin a site. So I looked around, and noticed that a lot of things used angelfire, so I decide to give it a whirl. I start with GlitterGear, using html assistance from mulitple sites and sources. Still creating my little drag-and-drop dolls, I inhanced the site to the best that I could, knowing the little html that I did. It wasn't beautiful, not anything like I imagined, but it was a place to put my dolls. So I began placing them, one by one, onto the pages.
Soon enough I found Dolls in the Mist by going to Chickzrock. I noticed that it was like a doll index, in fact, that's what it was! I found some more great drag-and-drop sites to use to make things like silents and wonderkins and that stuff. And I was enjoying myself a lot! I was trying new things, and, yeah, I was having fun.
It was a long time before I began to tire (and run out of props and sites) of drag-and-drops. I was looking around at Dolls in the Mists again, and I found Josie's Dollz. I looked around and saw the neat idea...drawing dolls indstead of using drag-and-drops. It sounded cool, so I scribbled around on paint and drew one. It sucked majorly, so I deleted it...I wish I hadn't now...
Bronwyn was doing a Thanksgiving contest at this time, for handdrawn dolls, so I made one (not one of my best) and entered it. Ha! It did not even come close to winning. It gave me the start of making these handmade dolls while using basebodies.
(My doll entered in DIM's Thanksgiving contest)
I began working on another doll for fun, calling her "Angel". She was...well...supposed to be an angel. After awhile Bronwyn started a Christmas contest. I thought to myself, "Well, maybe I can change my angel doll a bit and make her into a Christmas theme." So I make her clothing red, add a few poofs of white, give her a hat, administer a shadow, and chrisen her "Santa's Little Helper." Tada! Then I enter her in the Christmas contest.
My first win! It was awesome...well, I was a little over-excited, but face it, it was my first award. So yeah, I was happy. After that I entered my doll Icy into the Olympics contest, and she won. I start on a doll-making frenzy (figuratively speaking) and start making a lot more than previously. My mind just goes to work, spitting out ideas.
(My three dolls: Angel, Santa's Little Helper, & Icy)
I figured out a few html codes...things that I was dying to know. But I knew that it was too late to totally redo GlitterGear. So what do you know? I tried a few site-making sites...geocities, yahoo, envy.nu...I got pretty confused with all those, so I decide to just use angelfire again, since I already knew how to use it. When I started this site, I smoothed out a few bumps that my old site had. I added a diary, typed a different info, and changed the layout majorly. The dolls remained the same, however.
