About
Here is where you can read up on the site history of Deadly Nightshade as well as about it's name.
Site Name
Deadly Nightshade is a very very poisonous plant that has purple bell shaped flowers and small black berries. It is a symbol of danger, death, and deception. I decided to name this site Deadly Nightshade because for one, at the time I was watching the Anime Perfect Girl Evolution(The Wallflower). In the Anime, the main character has qualities of danger, deception, and death. She is very scary. She reminded me of this flower. After I had finished watching the entire Anime I felt like I wanted to make a layout with Perfect Girl Evolution characters. Thus, I did. When I was making the layout I decided I would make a website once again. So, in return, I needed a site name. Thus, Deadly Nightshade.
Designing History
When I was in sixth grade (currently a high school graduate), I was obsessed with the Anime Sailor Moon. I would watch it everyday. At the time my dad was into computers. Somehow I was curious about them myself because my dad was. For a while he would not let me on his computer. He said "Your too young." That just sparked my curiosity more. I decided to sneak a peak on my fathers computer. For the first time I went on the internet, I was amazed, baffled. How could people make those things? How could they even exist?
After my father finally let down on "Not letting me on the computer," I learned they were called websites. I was so inspired; I wanted to make one myself. The first website that caused me to be inspired was when Anime Vengence was called something else(I don't remember but, it was an full-fledged Inuyasha site). Now, I had a problem though... I didn't know how to make a website! One day my dad came home with this program that helped you make a website through page building. Since at the time I didn't know the rights and wrongs of websites I literally just took other peoples work and made my own website. I planned to make my own Sailor Moon graphics site. The good thing was that I could never figure out how to publish the websites I made to the internet. If I did I know for sure I would be in some serious trouble.
Soon I gave up on that page builder of mine once I found the wonderful world of Yahoo! Geocities. It was again a page builder. The neat thing about Yahoo! Geocities is when you use the page builder you can use it so well you can make it look like you coded a layout and the whole entire site. Thus, I finally had my first website on the web. This time I knew that I had to make my own graphics too. That's how I came to own Paint Shop Pro 7 (thanks to my father and STLP[Student/Technology Leader Program - a club in my middle school]). Later on I finally got fed up with page builders plus the fact that I couldn't code. Somehow my mom told me that she had ordered a bunch of how to with computer disks and one of them was HTML. Around that time it was (I think) 8th grade. I had soon mastered HTML and basic layout coding. I finally made my first website out of HTML and graphics(made by me). I decided to switch to a different host. Freewebs.com. For quite a while--until, I think, about the 10th grade (now using Paint Shop Pro 11)--I used Freewebs.com. Then I started hosting my website on subdomain hosts. My first one was aoumi.net(not closed). For aoumi.net, it was a great first host. The person was a male that owned the site. He let me have a cpanel (which most sub-domain users don't get), unlimited bandwidth, space, and much more! Later on, I closed the site I had hosted there. I decided to take a break from the web design world for a while.
Around the 11th grade I opened up a site called Presumptuous Obscurity. It was once again hosted on Freewebs.com. That site did not last very long. As well as the site Junkotsu Junkotsu. I don't even remember what Junkotsu Junkotsu means. Anyways, later on around the beginning of 2008 I decided to make a layout of the anime Perfect Girl Evolution(The Wallflower). Once I finished it I decided "Hey! What the heck! I'm going to start a website again. Thus, Deadly Nightshade was born. Now, this site is the first website that I took a step further into the HTML/CSS world. I learned how to make tableless layouts, Pop-up layouts, and more! I also severly advanced my .css knowledge. Thanks to Deadly Nightshade I absolutly can not give up the wonderful world of website designing. I will keep Deadly Nightshade open for as long as possible.
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