January 21, 2000
www.selkie.net
I took the plunge today. Hopefully, within the next week, I will be the proud owner of my very own domain name: selkie.net. I found a webhosting service that looks more than reasonable in terms of what they provide for what I pay, and signed up with them.Why? For a lot of reasons. I've had a website for over two years now, and its gone from a bleah sort of page on Geocities (which is still up, if you're just dying of curiosity to see where I started), to the HTML'd, Java'd, framed glory before you. My first step was to move away from Geocities and learn how to use the space Earthlink was giving me as part of my ISP package. Did that back in September. As of right now, though, after less than six months' worth of journalling, I'm using half the space they allow for me. And as I start moving more into using my own photography and sound files and who knows what all else, my space needs are going to grow.
I wanted to find a spot where I could play around with more advanced design techniques, and not have to worry about space restrictions or anything like that. Plus, let's just be honest, 'selkie.net' just sounds a hell of a lot cooler than 'home.earthlink.net/~alianora'.
So hopefully within the next week, selkie.net will become a real domain, and I'm thinking I'll be moving in around February 1st. Again, if all goes well. I'm not expecting a major redesign or anything, although I do want to tweak a few things here and there that have been bugging me.
And finally... why 'selkie.net'? If you have to ask, you haven't been to the MUSH page (which I just updated this week) or to the writing page. I'm still at the stage of trying to decide: will the journal be the main index page, or not? And if not, what else am I going to do with all my space? Given my domain name, I'm tempted to consider setting up a clearinghouse of sorts for selkie mythology, but I'm not sure I'm ready to tackle something like that. We'll see.
Something about me taking my camera to work. Everyone who passes by simply must try it out.
