domain history

This domain is farely new; it opened on 9-26-03. My experience with web design and websites began around 1998 when I was only 10 years old! One day I was sitting inside the Middlebury College library and I was browsing through sailor moon fansites because what else does a little kid have to do?! I was a huge Sailormoon fan around this time and I was looking up character profiles. At the same time, I was talking to my friend who had created a website for her "band". She referred me to a website called gURLpages. It was a free hosting site, like geocities, but it was focused mainly on girls. Aside from building a website or blog, it had sections on relationship advice, horoscopes, shopping, and all kinds of girl stuff. So, I read through all the directions and tutorials and began my one page site about Sailor moon! How cool was I?

Well, everyday that summer I came back and worked on this one page site. Eventually I added more and more to it, such as pages on astrology, dragonball z and gundam wing. As I began understand the computer language of html, this site became a collective. I still did not have photoshop at this point, so I used free layouts from great resources. This collective became known as the Anime Tea House. This collective became quite large so I moved it to geocites. Somehow, I got a ton of visitors. This was waay back when fan sites were not as popular.

So the years past and I finally couldn't stand using nasty geocities anymore. So, I decided to just buy my own domain, which I named besaid.com after the beautiful island from one of my favorite RPGs, Final Fantasy X.
I'm quite happy with the end results. ♥