^{Originally posted: 19th August 2026}

I Have A Website Now?!: My 11 Year Old Self Is Currently Screaming At Not Being Confined To Wix Anymore ★

(Localised in 1985 in English-speaking regions as "Rad Gals on Rad Sites" to a niche audience)

As you probably realised from seeing the main page, having a website has been a dream of mine ever since I was young. To be able to have a place on the internet where I could freely talk about anything in my little corner that I owned! What a dream that was.

Of course, journals and diaries were a thing long before I was given internet access for real, but that wasn't Cool and Trendy and Futuristic. I didn't care how much Jeff Kinney could write about a boy that should've probably had tests done for psychopathic tendencies! Pen and paper was NOTHING compared to the marvel of technology that was Windows XP Professional on an absolute monster of a tower with a whopping 1GB of RAM and 50GB of storage.

It went hand in hand with my dream of becoming a game designer that worked for a big company like SEGA or Nintendo or Sony, and considering how well that worked out, it's safe to say that my various attempts of creating a website were all very quickly limited in one way or another.

The Wix / Dreamweaver Era

No, I am absolutely NOT kidding. Despite my age, I was somehow taught Adobe Dreamweaver in school.

You know. Dreamweaver. Adobe's attempt to make a website app that was just frankly a bit naff.

_{Probably didn't help that I was using the 2003 version of it over TEN YEARS after its release...}

Regardless of its age (and how, frankly, it was a chore to use instead of literally anything else), it lit a fire in pretty much everyone in the class, and that entire term was spent making our own little personal sites in very, VERY basic HTML.

From what I remember, mine was a Pokemon themed site, unsurprisingly, detailing my dream team, their moves, personality outside of battle, headcanons... all that sort of stuff. It was also yellow text on a black background. Very fetching (it wasn't) and incredibly stylish (also wasn't that). The best part about Dreamweaver, though, was the function where it allowed you to draw a shape, colour it the same as the background and link it to a secret page. I, uh, can't remember how I did it. It's been years and it's a miracle I recall this much from that time in my life.

After a while, everyone started getting a bit bored of Dreamweaver, though, and people quickly moved onto Wix. The best sites for flash games at lunch time were Wixsites, and though I won't go into detail about the games as of now, people caught on quick.

Wix was a website maker. A free website maker.

It spread like wildfire. Homework rooms at lunch went from a decently packed space to actively needing teachers on the door to make sure students weren't overcrowding the room to make websites about their favourite footballer, or putting a teacher's personal information online or something.

I ended up making one too - again, Pokemon related - and again, mainly the same thing. But since I was also caught in the 'I NEED to be a YouTuber with a bajillion subscribers or I'll DIE!!!' mindset like every kid was at the time, I had some very... interesting headcanons on there, from what I remember. Thankfully, that site's been long gone, probably due to Wix realising I never remembered my login from 10 odd years ago.

Neocities

After this, I never really stepped into website creation for a while. Probably because of schoolwork taking all my time, or because I dropped computer science, or something like that. Lockdown came and went, and I had to do a coding workshop for 12 weeks for something or other. By that, I mean I absolutely coasted through with Google because the entire thing was at home. Obviously, awful decision looking back, but I'm far from the same person I was back then. I would absolutely do the exact same thing though.

_{what the fuck do you mean i have to learn html and css}

But it wasn't much trouble, right? I could absolutely follow a quick tutorial, and then base my site off a template! Cyanobacteria looks nice, I'm sure I made something goo--

...Oh.

Well, can't get any worse on light mode, ri

_{oh, god.}

When making the current version of my website, this was what the previous attempt was left like, and had been left like since around that time. I took a crack at it with the help of a very close friend (thanks, daisy and all of f0rest!), but it very, VERY quickly became apparent that... yeah, no, this was horrible and beyond saving. I'm honestly surprised I didn't get in a state and fully delete it beforehand, but it was quite funny to look back.

And now, we come to an incredibly hot 2026 summer, and I'd seen a post from riley smudgebap mentioning another friend's site, and I'd had enough, I NEEDED to make a site of my own.

Anyway, it's currently almost 4am. I now have a fully working website with a home page, a 404 page, a page all about me, and bits and bobs everywhere, and though it's modeled off a template (see the bottom of the page), I finally have what I've always wanted.

This is MY own little corner of the internet, and it's all mine to play about with.

and im really really happy about it and it's a pleasure to have people looking at it. thank you <3