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My Online Experience

I'm a proud computer geek ?? 8)

Tainted Reverie. Yep, that's my blog. The name just popped up in my head one random day, and I decided to use it for a blog. I wouldn't say I really like the name, but it'll do.

So, my graphic-designing, site-coding career started one fine day when I was on Neopets (yes, that's kinda sad). I came across an attractive Userlookup Layout. It was the year 2004, and I had just become addicted to the computer for a whole year. A friend of mine in the third grade (I was 8 years old, a young underling, soon to have my 20/20 vision destroyed), told me about Neopets, and I started going on it everyday. Not for the games, but moreover for the userlookups (I am not weird xD). I clicked on a link that said, "this layout was made by", and was transported to a beautifully designed site, animerequiem.com. I looked at their layouts and discovered how to copy and paste them over to my layout. Before long, I learned what simple things like "br" and "p" meant in the widely used language of the computers. Although most of the HTML I know, was self-taught and self-learned, my mother (being a computer programmer) also helped me with certain things (like finally install photoshop into my computer so that I could escape the simpleton of Paint).

From then on, I decided to have my own site. I created a Freewebs account and started coding. I wasn't very skilled at the time, so I relied mostly on copying and pasting codes from other tutorial sites. Obsession paved my way to success as a graphic site webmistress. By 2005, I had created a site called Angellic Anime, because of my Neopets username, angellic_feline (I was bad at spelling and now I have abandoned that site so do not bother visiting it). In school, I made a friend who shared a similar interest in graphic designing and we both developed our sites. Hers was named Foukai Yume, if my memory is still correct. My graphic site was still amateur-ish until I decided to start clean with a new graphic site in 2006, Euphoric Heart.

2007 proved an important year with my discovery of hosting. I no longer had to use the site-builder, Freewebs. I got hosted for the first time by cloud-eyes.net and rebuilt Euphoric Heart. I was foreign with the concept of uploading files directly from my computer and the helpful tool SmartFTP, but fortunately, Felicity(one of my affiliates) helped me through an online conversation. Having changed schools because of Junior High, I made another friend who enjoyed graphic-designing, Betty. After awhile, I became bored with my site and focussed more on my offline life.

I had almost given up on site making until an idea popped up. A blog! A blog was something that could link my offline life with my virtual one. Before long, I got a host, Jan, and started working my ass off on my new addiction - I mean site. However, I gradually lost interest and yet again abandoned another site.

After an extremely long hiatus, of approximately two years, I am now beginning a new blog site. I can't say that I'm starting from scratch (since I still have most of my content), but I'm beginning from the start. I've nearly forgotten all about computer programming and designing, and I suddenly feel like a newbie again. What instigated my re-entrance to the blogging world was that I'm now taking computer studies as a course at school. (:

Past Layouts


Delightful-Version Five
Layout By: Anne (me)
Features: Rachel Bilson
Brushes: Betty's
Type: Table
Displayed: November 2007 to February 2008
Comments: I downloaded many pics of Rachel Bilson, because I really liked her character of Summer in the OC. I decided to play around with two pics and blend them together, and a layout resulted! The only way this kind of layout would look the slightest bit attractive is if it was aligned in the center, but I had trouble doing so in the past, so Betty helped me with the tables and footer.


Harry Potter-Version Four
Layout By: Anne (me)
Features: Harry Potter
Type: Valid DIV
Displayed: Beginning of September to Beginning of October 2007
Comments: I made the layout because of my obsession with Harry Potter in the Summer. I bought the book the first day it came out and finished it in ten days.


Friends Forever-Version Three
Layout By: Anne (me)
PNG: aethereality.com
Brushes: aethereality.net
Type: Valid DIV
Displayed: Beginning to End of August 2007
Comments: This layout was another valid div I made using photoshop. I was bored so I had decided to play with a cute pic of two anime girls who looked like best friends. After cloud rendering and many blending layers of brushes and filtering I came up with this. I didn't really want anime on a layout of mine but this layout turned out pretty cute so I displayed it.


With All My Heart-Version Two
Layout By: Anne (me)
PNG: xoxmariah.com
Brushes: aethereality.net
Type: Valid DIV
Displayed: Beginning to End of July 2007
Comments: This layout (featuring Vanessa Anne Hudgens, who's well known from High School Musical) was made by me :) YAYNESS! XDD (see credits at footer). Some pages with a lot of images (example: the msn icons) are messed up and I'm too lazy to fix it DX. Well, this layout was pretty simple to design but I had a bit of trouble with the coding because this is the first VALID div layout I made-thanks to Celestial Star's tutorial.


Exodus-Version One
Layout By: Aethereality
PNG: Iuriatan Felipe Muniz
rushes: Hybrid-Genesis, Pretty-Tragic
Type: Valid DIV
Displayed: Opening of site to July 2007
Comments: I wanted an emo layout but I couldn't find one so I stuck with this. I mean, I do like trees you know. It was a premade because I was too lazy to make a layout myself.