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The Evolution of chrisamillion.com

I have been making web sites since sometime in 1999, when I first learnt html from 'SAMS Teach Yourself HTML in 24hours". This allowed me to create some very basic webpages, which relied heavily of frames as an interface mainly because, I was not capable enough to create complex layout tables! (As it turns out I was right not to rely on tables because they are actually not supposed to be used to layout webpages). Anyway I created several basic websites in 1999, one of them was for a local school band call "Damselfly", this was never put online and only one member of the band knew that I was making it! Another website which I made was called "The Webbies" which was designed as an award website, this again never got of the ground! I was around this time that I coined the name Chrisamillion, I remember my sister creating me a hotmail email, she asked me what I wanted my username to be and I said "Chrisamillion"

The first website I actually got on the internet was hosted by Homestead, before they became a pay service and was created using a WYSIWYG interface. It comprised mostly silly java tricks, some games and not much else. This site was shut down when Homestead.com started asking me for money I didn't have!

A few years later, in 2003, I, once again, began to create websites. I decided this after seeing a friends website and I made the main focus of my website The PhotoCentre(originally spelt Photocenter!), which I used to share photos taken at different parties I went to. This site was created using MS FrontPage and went live during November 2003, under the domain Chrisamillion.com.

Since late 2003, I have maintained this site as it has gone through several different versions, the current version is almost completely different from the original site. The only similar part if the curves found in the top logo, which could be seen on the background of the original site. Over it's life time, this site has had a Music Theory Section, a Game Section and at one point I create a GuitarCentre which I never finished. All of these components are now gone since they were incomplete and useful to no one, maybe in the future I will reincarnate some of these sections.

Probably the most important addition to this site is my blogs, one on which is hosted locally and one of which is a Xanga blog. I like to think that I started blogging just before is became cool, I probably didn't, doesn't matter!

Please keep checking back, because I have many plans for improving this site and it's only a matter of time until they all come to fruition!