 Creative Sites was originally started during the ninth grade at Stanton College Preparatory School. The Net Magazine had published an article in its February issue on building web pages. That article opened the net up to me, suddenly it wasn't so boring anymore. Instead of browsing pages I could create them. Not to mention anything I wanted could be displayed to the masses.
I then started two sites which were appropriately named "Matt's Place" and "Web World." about halfway though the year I was informed of a Microsoft internet contest for our school. Seizing the opportunity I signed up for the job. The next day I was introduced to the other members of the web team. A group of inspiring individuals, they included James Sewell, Robby Sharp, Damon Noisette and Jonathan Maton. James and Robby had a strange passion for 3-D rendering and VRML they could do pretty much anything with it. Damon Noisette was into the "hip-hop" culture and with an eye for art created our aesthetics section for Stanton Online. |
Chris, a rebel, loved sports and defying authority (Mr. Hoffman). He staged the early creation of our sports section. Jonathan was both a model student and Bailey's partner in crime he took the initiative to get stanton a web account with CCSE and organized all of our efforts. His area of creation, the Guidance section.
You may wonder what all that had to do with this prelude to Creative Sites, well if it hadn't been for those students I would still be looking at HTML as an impossible language and the Internet as a scary place. One year after the team had been formally defined with a few additional members here and there I started my own little venture. Creative Sites is my pen name and with the guidance and nagging of Damon Noisette avoided becoming "HTML Capital." The unimaginative name that had originally popped into my head for my HTML help site.
Creative Sites has gone through many transitions and is currently hosted on |
Tripod's server.
The reason being that First Coast Online, my internet service provider wanted to charge me 50-100$ a month to host my site. After all I am advertising my services on it. Well I dumped FCOL like a bad habit and moved to bigger and better services. Creative Sites receives an average of one hit per day, but considering that I have never advertised the site to any search engine I think that's pretty impressive. Especially since I don't have a fancy domain name! Well Creative Sites has bloomed and is now a full fledged site with it's own chat program (by earth web) and chat channel. Check it out for yourself!
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