Editing: The Digital Art

Bura's Adoption Agency - Dragonball Z Gaming Screen Sprites

I like to play around with graphics, create banners, and design digital work. As a kid, I would watch my sister draw, and get envious because I couldn't draw the way she did. In fact, I still do. I think it'll always be a sibling rivalry thing. But as a kid,  I would always draw, everyday, everywhere, trying just to be as good as my sister. Eventually, leading me to take an interesting in the arts. When I first encountered the Internet in 2000, my sister and I would see so many beautiful digital paintings created by really young people. We encountered websites like deviantART - a wonderful place to see various art pieces, including photography, designs, patterns, and poetry too.

We started getting into computer art, and photo editing and sometimes little animations. We also created many websites too...which unfortunately got shut down because of GeoCities closed in 2009, no more free web hosting. The golden age of web hosting was gone.

But my sister would be the artist and the HTML (hyper text markup language) and CSS (cascading style sheets) writer.  I would help with the little things, editing, making thumbnails, putting galleries and fixing broken links. I think about how much time and effort we put into editing to make the website the way we liked it to be.

We were more self taught, than trained if anything. We started off as kids and eventually grew out of it. It was a fun little project we would work during the summer holidays. In the end, the satisfaction of knowing we created something, and getting Internet surfer's to compliment you on your work was really gratifying.

Below I've included links to some of our *erm* websites. I am a little embarrassed by them but hey, we were kids after all. Plus, it shows the progress we made with HTML editing and CSS.

*Warning: I suggest if you don't like Sailor Moon or Dragonball Z don't click on them.

First site, my sister and I ever made (2002):
Katlynstar's Silver Moon Millennium - This site we used a template, and smushed everything together (N'sync? with a Sailor Moon? Now that's a wtf) we had no clue what we were doing. This site had no focus whatsoever. I was 10 years old when I started this and my sister was 14.

This site soon evolved to this:
Neo Queen Serenity's Palace -  This was our main site, all about Sailor Moon. Our most prized piece of work we did. It received a lot of hits and many Sailor Moon fans (Moonies) loved our content. It has more ads now than how I remember it though. This is only the archival site though so our layout doesn't quite look the way it's suppose to.

We also made this site:
Bura's Adoption Agency - I'd probably say it's the one that's most put together, design-wise. But it's a Dragonball Z sprite site. We screen captured the little characters when we played Legacy of Goku, and Legacy of Goku II on Game Boy Advance on the computer.

Saiyan Princess - 
This site was a site dedicated to girls of DBZ. Probably one of my favorite layouts.

Anyway, that was a recollection of memories, not to mention, it did give me a few laughs. I think if I were to start up site building again, I could do a lot better job of it now than back then. But a lot of editing goes on in web site building. For me, HTML and CSS start looking like math equations if I work on it for too long, then I just want to leave it alone and have a snack.