basic info
edumacation info: Jr. High. That's all you're getting. And I know it's education not edumacation.
machine: iMac G3
software: OS 10.4.2 (but I have to use the family computer to get on the internet, which is running 10.2.8) and old copy of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator CS, and the macromedia MX suite (not including ColdFusion, since that's only for the PC version).
contact
I'm only going to offer one contact medium. And it's this email address.
swiftlab@gmail.com
bio
In late 2004 I started an organization called Enigma, with some friends. We were going to make games, originally. There were going to be divisions called Bladen (actioney stuff), Realboy (funny stuff) et cetera. However, dare I say it, we were quite, well, quite noobey. Yes, I know. Shocking. Okay maybe it's not very. Anyhow sometime in early 2005 I decided we needed a website for it. I worked in Adobe GoLive, using only a visual editor (I didn't even know how to put it on the web without paying. It's called Freewebs. Or Yahoo! Geocities. Or anything else.) until sometime in 2005 I was visiting my friends in New York. They're 13 and they still like Neopets. (okay, one is thirteen. And he and the 12- year-old stopped playing now.) Man, they coulda' talked me into anything back then. Even making a Neopets account. However I did notice the Pet's Pages ("A free webpage for your pet!" Yeah whatever…)and Guilds (like clans) or whatever. They required HTML. So I looked into Neopet's extensive HTML guide. (That was sarcasm, thank you.) That's where I learned what HTML was, and started the whole web design hulibaloo. I still code my own pages, but when it comes to blogging, I just let the nice folks here at wordpress bring me some themes. I stopped playing Neopets shortly after I returned here to Massachusetts. (Hahah! Die DarkDragonSoul! And uhh, the rest of ya.) However I continued to work with web design, got a Yahoo! Geocity, and started it off. Mmmhmm. It was a list. It was a list with graphics and a background. I mean, it was okay, it's just, the design sucked. It proceded to improve… Kind of… In Fall of 2005 I started with Bravenet.com. It was still a list with graphics. The only difference was that it had way too many Bravenet webtools. So in late Fall I'd had enough. I marched to my room, opened up dreamveaver, and started working. It didn't quite work. So I went back over to GoLive and used the visual editor and HTML. It turned out pretty well. It had a nice sidebar and a pretty cool logo and all that stuff. I even got over a hundred different visitors. But true computer people would never come back to it. The space in between the sidebar images made it look all raggedy and unrefined. So much for that idea. So in early 2006 I decided I would redo the site. And get a domain name. So I did. In February I had the new site on Freewebs. On the 6th I purchased the domain name www.enigma-project.net. That domain was active on the 10th. On… oh, say the 10th I got inspired to make another site. With interactive Flash stuff, and graphics and everything. So I set to work on—I think—the 12th. Maybe the 11th. I don't know. I had been thinking about doing this for about 4 days though. Back to the point. I made the site in Flash, for the first time. It had a link to a blog, and whatever. I had it like that for about a day. Then I had to change it to a blog. I needed it to be more flexible and easy to update. So I made it just a blog. Here we are.
