Site History

History

My first website was born on Tuesday 25th July 2000. It was hosted at my work place with the url violetsteel.hillcrest.co.za. It stayed there untill I moved to England, where working on it became difficult, and Justin my old boss and friend didn't have the time to give me the support I needed. He suggested I moved to www.f2s.com, which at the time was a free web host, so then it became www.violetsteel.f2s.com. When they terminated their free service in February 2002, I decided it was time I get serious about my site and pay for a service so I could expect it to work, and get support when I needed it. When you are on a free host you can't exactly complain about a service you aren't paying for. I beleive it was Akasha from zanet (irc) that reffered me to 2mhost, and I signed up with them and registered my domain www.violetsteel.com on 7th May 2002.
A year later my domain expired because 2mhost had some problem renewing it. So i was forced to renew it myself and re-register with 2mhost too. I toyed with the idea of abandoning violetsteel.com at this stage and starting from scratch. The only domain that I really felt partial to was digitaldeliquent.com but it already exists and I didn't want to so for the same but with a different top-level extention like .net or .org :Þ So i decided to stick with violetsteel.com as it was already fairly well established and held a part of my identity. violetsteel.com came back into online existence on 13 July 2003.

My Host

My current host remains 2mhost. They are complately fantastic! Under the ASP Sandard package, I get:
Free .com
No ads or copyrights
100Mb Disk Space
10 Pop3Mail accounts
10 SubDomains (separate FTP accounts)
Unlimited Data Transfer
Unlimited AutoResponders and Aliases
and all for $2.4/m (Cheap!)

Previous Layouts

The first. When I look at it now I just think ew!!!


The second. Was slightly better, not a vast improvement.


The third. This layout lasted about a year, mainly because I never had the time or opportunity to work on it. Was the first site that was actually any good. and it featured a cute little gif that I found years ago, I can't remember where :)


The fourth. It only lasted 3 months. Quite a crap site to mark the birth of violetsteel.com don't you think. I was going for an open, spacey, minimalistic look, but I think it ended up looking naked and boring.


v5 - Was up for about 3 months before I got bored :)


v6 - Louis Royo. Up for about 2 months until I felt lke a change. Was quite popular.


v7 - Julia Stiles. Uploaded 30 December 2002


v8- modified version of the layout above because I didn't have time to totally create a new one. and I was more anxious to just get my site up and running that waste time editing. 21.06.03


v9 - the dark version, Using an image from Digital Apocalypse.


v10 - Inspired by a layout by avedementia

v11 - feat Angelina Jolie, and brushes curtesy of Nocturna. 13.12.03


v12 - Feat Juclesia from the rpg game Magna Carta. 02.01.04


v13 -scratched and torn. Made with brushes from here, here and here - 22.03.04


v14.2 - Version 14 never made it to the www. I got bored it before I got the chance o_O This one made completely by me in Photoshop CS - 12.10.04