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· ABOUT MY FAIRY KING |
For a site that hasn't been online all that much, there's still a fair bit behind My Fairy King.
It started back in maybe September of 2007 when I decided to get back in to website-making. I'd done 38275932753257293 pictures of Queen fanart, written fanfiction and all that jazz, but it still wasn't enough. I wanted to make a fitting tribute to my favourite band, but more than anything, I wanted a place where I could share stuff with other Queen fans. I tried places like Queen Zone and all that, but it was way too full for my liking...I find it harder to become part of a community when it's absolutely massive. I wanted a smaller more familiar kind of a place, so I decided to make my own Queen fansite.
I've had plenty of Photoshop and coding experience before, so I made it fairly quickly. Finding a host was the hard part, because I didn't have a job and therefore couldn't afford paid hosting. In the end I found Starszz and moved in My Fairy King. There it stayed for quite some time, until I found myself too busy to look after it properly and update it. In the end I took it down on a hiatus, and sort of forgot about it for ages until a few people started expressing interest in me putting it back online. But as I'd taken down my site and was no longer hosted at Starszz, I had to find a new host. This time, however, I wanted My Fairy King to be a lot better than the first version, so I re-designed the whole layout - something that proved to be extremely arduous. D:
It took some ten thousand years but I finally found a good host in XtreemHost and I decided to bite the bullet and buy a domain: myfairyking.net.
Although the updates area suggests otherwise [I was just testing the news script 8D], I actually officially re-opened My Fairy King to the world on November 24th 2008 - the 17th year anniversary of Freddie's death.
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· PAST DESIGNS |
The layouts that My Fairy King has had so far:
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· THE SITE NAME |
I chose the name My Fairy King from a list of many. I wanted one that would be instantly recognizable to a Queen fan in a search engine. I was considering simply calling it Bohemian Rhapsody for a while, because the domain was up for grabs and it's also an obvious attention-grabber for a Queen fan. In the end though I chose My Fairy King because I love the lyrics for the song, and it's also dandy...it's just so Queen.
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· ABOUT ME |
My name is Elizabeth, but most people on DA call me River, Grace or Ej. Take your pick xD
I live in Australia, and the state I live in is very aptly named: Queensland. I shit you not. Talk about appropriate. I live in a small sunny town in a house about a five minute drive from the beach. I'm the youngest of three kiddies in my family.
The biggest love in my life is first and foremost art. When I was very little, I'd pick up pencils and draw along the walls all the way down the hallway (and then I'd be made to go and scrub all of it off). I broke my right arm when I was five, but I tried peeling the plaster off because I wanted to enter a colouring-in competition. I ended up winning it and got free ice cream :D Also, it's a common theory among animators that most of them suffered some sort of head-bashing incident when they were young...an unusual pattern that seems to be appear within all animators. Well, I'm proud to say that when I was little, I fell out of a trolley and smashed my head on concrete, so here's hoping! (I also got hit in the face with a football rebounding off a step in front of me, so I should be doubly good.)
Next year I'm moving to Brisbane to go to the Queensland College of Art to study animation at Griffith. The course is supposed to be the best in Oz, so if I don't get in, well I'll just die.
The second love of my life is music. My first ever CD was Yellow Submarine by the Beatles. I grew up with music like ABBA (mum is a big ABBA fanatic), Creedance Clearwater Revival, Lobo, Dr. Hook, Cliff Richard, Cat Stevens, Elton John, Leann Rhymes, John Denver and a LOT of 'greatest hits' of the 70's and 80's - especially the 70's. I always loved Elton John throughout my whole life, and a dream of mine came true when on December 4th 2007, I saw him live at Townsville, Queensland, at the Dairy Farmer's Stadium with an audience of 24,000 people.
Queen strolled in to my life only a few years ago. I never really grew up with them; we had no Queen albums in the house, but somewhere on the greatest hits CD's there was Killer Queen and Bohemian Rhapsody. But one day I was sorting through my dad's CD's when I found one called 'Video Clips'. I was intrigued, and put it on my computer. It was a CD full of video clips for old songs. I saw the thumbnail for Bohemian Rhapsody and got interested, but when I opened it, it didn't work. I got curious and looked it up on YouTube, and it was love at first sight. <3
I've been making websites for about five years. My first ever site was called Raven's Totem Pole (LOL) and it was a Balto fansite that I made in PowerPoint. Eventually I figured out that that wouldn't work and used a sitebuilder at Freewebs.com to make a real website. Ages later, I made a new Balto fansite called The Alpine Express and had it hosted at Tripod, still using a sitebuilder. Finally, I wanted to make it more customizable and ad-less, and I discovered the magic of Notepad. By looking at other peoples' site coding, I taught myself HTML and made a new version of The Alpine Express, hosted at LionKing.org.
Eventually I shut that down when the Balto fandom went insane (and still is).
Then, WHAT HO, I made yet ANOTHER. A fansite for the show House MD, called House of House xD lame. I think it was hosted at Willow Hosting but I can't remember...anyway it was free. That didn't last long either.
Then I made a personal site for my art, called Denadris, also hosted at LionKing.org. (LOL it's still online, you can see it here: http://www.lionking.org/~xylene/index.html). I got bored with that quickly, and made a new personal site called Elkie Web - the first time I ever bought hosting and bought a domain.
ElkieWeb also didn't last long because I got bored with it. Hosting ran out for that and I pretty much quit website-making for a while.
Then finally, a long, long time later, My Fairy King came about. I desperately wanted to be hosted by Fansites.org but they never accepted it, because your site pretty much has to be about Miley Cyrus or Zac Efron to get anywhere.
It's the longest running fansite I've kept, and I'm still happy with it. Hope everyone else is too. ;)