Originally started back in 1999 as a static Geocities page with a few links on, the idea was the have a bookmark site where my friends and family could see the sites I'd been visiting and take a look at them themselves. I got bored of updating the site all the time by having to alter the HTML files, and thought that there must be a better way. After searching around I ended up reading about ASP and how you could use it to build a dynamic site. So I bought myself a book on ASP and built the site to use an MS Access database. Obviously I needed something other than Geocities for this, which is when I registered this domain back in 2002 and got some proper web hosting.

I eventually lost interest in ASP, as I moved away from Windows and towards Linux. I picked up a project that required PHP and MySQL, so I bought another book and taught myself PHP/MySQL. I liked the combination and so I re-built this website to use it, and it's still running on PHP/MySQL today, although the code has been completely redone several times since then. This was before I went to University, so I was only slightly aware of something called "Object Oriented Programming" (OOP), and had never really build anything in an OO way before. After reading up on what OO was, and writing a few Java applications, I once again completely rebuilt this site to use OO PHP.

It's by no means finished, and it never will be. I'm always updating the style, or tweaking bits here and there. In a few months I intend to rewrite the entire site yet again, but this time using Ruby on Rails. Another web based language which has come along and promises to make building websites much quicker. I've already played about with it and built a few test sites, but I'm not ready to migrate my site over to it just yet. But soon.

The screenshots section will show some of the old layouts for the site over the years.