I started making a website in 5th or 6th grade, because my brother had to make one for a project - and my mother was helping out with it because she did a lot of computer science. It wasn't until 7th that I practically digested an old HTML book and was making forms while other people were still earning about fonts. Of course, then I introduced myself to divs, accessability, and Notepad because tables were annoying and but Dreamweaver practically made webpages an offhand thing. There was practically no work put into it, which made me decidedly upset.

I've also been through a lot of hosts. My first sites started on Geocities with no organization, then Crosswinds which made me pay after not too long, then Frostyhost which went out of business, and finally Trap17 after an interlude of about 5 different hosts I tried but didn't like (I still think I have those accounts).

My site, http://www.biscuitrat.trap17.com, as you can see, has come a long way and I'm proud of myself for it

my site started as just a place were people could download the scripts that i wrote for mIRC. After a while, people had me adding their scripts to the site and whatnot, until eventually i filled up my 30 megs of space (was using ripway hosting at the time)

after a while of that, i looked elsewhere for hosting, found awardspace and used them for a while, and then eventually found trap17, set up my forum, then lost the internet... for about a month

came back, had to post a ton real fast (came back with -29.7 credits or something) then got my site back up and running, and now have a pretty nice community, etc

ranked #1 on google for Alternative Scripting (like anyone would search that lol)

in 2003 i found out about HTML from a few of my friends on a site called planetteen.com. I built myself a lil homepage on planetteen with a tutorial i found at htmlgoodies.com. my page wasnt much... just a dhtml menu i found and an iframe ... with a couple links to pictures and such... then i got all hard core and made a template for mysite (the one i have now too ). I put a couple songs on it. made a stupid little javascript calendar that had to be changed monthly... put a few bravenet plugins on it and linked to a few places. then in 2004 i found freewebs. I began hosting my site there for quite sometime. I began creating my member based website using authpro.com's features. After a while i abandoned my site... only knowing html, javascript, css, and dhtml there wasnt much that i could do. Even if i knew other languages i couldnt use them because freewebs doesnt support any other languages. Then finally in april of 2006 i found a lil site called ripway. So i immediatly started bringing back my site. i learned php and xml and i went to work on my cms (Content Management System). I was able to make a registration, updates, links, and css system. I had 2 main features like the forums and 'the wall'. then i realized ripway wasnt enough i needed somthing better. So then i found a lil old site by the name of Trap17. Since i have been here i have updated both the forums and the registration system. I created an extensive Admin CP with features for managing the updates, users, links, css, forums, the wall, calendar, images, stats, and ads.

In the works we have artwork galleries, story board and a chat. I am learning java so hopefully the chat will be better than expected.

Tsunami Central - Check it out for urself

It will take long time to tell but I will do

A bout 6 months ago , I go to a Simple Machines forum named Rockman perfect memories and create a thread name "MegaMan fan sites" (Site for MegaMan) and one person replied with the link lead to MegaMan Underground then I joined it.

After that , for some reason , he closed his site.

About 5 days later , I asked him and he said he can't do anything so he will make it offline


About 3 more days later , I asked again and he told me the new link lead to the new site hosted at SMF For FREE.

I posted some messages there and saw the button "Create you own forum"

I clicked it and everything setted up

But that isn't the end.

When I came to Rockman Perfect Again , I click on the help page and see a link lead to Simple Machines Homepage

Then I downloaded their software with the version 1.1 RC3

But I don't know how to install it even I read their doc sites clearly.

Then for some reason (I don't remember exactly) , I know that I have to hosted at somewhere and then I started searching the NET for a good place.

And I found Astahost , I requested an application there but no reply

Then I leave to Awardspace but it is the worst web hosting site ever

And I searched the Net again and found Trap17.


The rest you guys should guess it , right ? , that is how I created a Simple Machines forum.

I had my first page years ago, it was on a asp host, athlo I dident knew how to create asp files. I yust used the service for html files It had a 100mb / 1 gig bandwith. It was really nice for that time. Altho back then I even had bandwith problems it was my first site build in clan type.

After that I started multipull sites and creating over the years, mostly personal or for frends busnisses. I realy loved what I did. Then I learnd some more etc. Recently am using php mysql. Its yust the future of the websites and in the end every 1 will start using it. Well if they wanna learn it I gues.

But even newb admins can eassy install a php / mysql site no expert or whatever needed for it. And stil some ferms keep using html funny. Well my first was a clan site. My 3 sites after where personal sites. After that I created 3 busniss sites in xhtml and dhtml.

Then I started to create forums for my own clan uses or community. And I mostly used dhost.info xthost.info and fsphost.info that admin is a frend of mine so ofiusly I used it. Great service altho he's a bizzy man with free hosting instant space etc so the service on dhost isent as great as here. But the html offers of him are stil great non the less.

Used it about 3 years. Now am trying 2 setup my own network of free mmorpg / rpgs games. Why? a frend came 2 me and ask me if i wanted 2 create games / host them with a team. Well I said I can give it a try and well here we are my sites on and my game servers:)

Interesting topic.

Well, "my" site has been a LOT of different things, from a pokemon info site to a phantasy star online clan, but I guess I can just start from when I joined t17.

When I joined I originally planned to make a gaming forum [hence the name plusone.trap17.com, sort of like 1up] but I got bored with that because nobody was interested. Then I turned it into a blog, to talk about random stuff in my life. Then I got into graphics design [one of the major reasons I am staff/was admin here on trap17] and wanted to do a graphics forum, but that idea quickly died out. So I then added a sort of gallery to my blog to show off all my sigs and such.

I bought a domain [and got 5 .info for free with it] somewhere during that time, so the new address is brooksrockett.com [brooks rockett being my name]

Just recently, three or four days ago, I remodeled my site, and now the main section is still a blog [although I haven't had time to post anything substantial] with some contact information, and there's a new flash-based portfolio section behind that to serve as a gallery and a potential "resume".

I think this is the way it's going to stay for a while [aside from a few visual changes], unless I find something a little more fitting.

Personally I'd rather still have the portfolio as a part of the blog, but the flash-based portfolio looks and feels much nicer, has better effects, and music that stays on while you're looking through the images.

Hmmm well my site is not really done yet

lol I have a rather short but rather interesting history. Nothing really exciting though.

I started out actually looking for a place to host my chat for a game I knew nothing about graphics, web sites, and web hosting at the time. Here though got me interested in computers and what not though and that's how it all started. My name was Crazy Stunt Man at the time so my first web site was called The CSM (Crazy Stunt Man) Network. lol Stupid name but like I said it was my first site. I didn't really know how to make a web site yet so I took a free template and eventually started a forum. I taught myself HTML and eventually made my own design on Photoshop. It ended up becoming a Graphics site but it never really got far in Google Rankings. I never really was able to get much of a site going.

Then as I got better with coding and what not I changed the name to Plenoptic Design. I made better sites and tried making free templates to download and made tutorials for people to read but that site also ended up like The CSM Network and didn't really get far. By this point my other host had gone down and I moved on to Trap17. After months of on and off work with the site I gave up and now have Stexel.net I was hoping to develop Visual Basic programs to offer for people but haven't really had the time yet. I was also gonna give the graphical design another shot but so far I'm still novice in design.