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Opened September 10th, 2002.

A brief history...
I started building websites because I was bored. 1998ish - I worked in a call center and during the summer I didn't have homework to keep me busy at work, so I decided to learn how to build websites. I didn't even know page builders with geocities and whatnot existed so I spent a lot of time on html tutorial sites trying to figure it all out. I ended up being lucky enough that my school had Frontpage on all the computers, so I could use that to create a site. It made it a lot easier in the beginning when I kind of understood html - but really didn't know how to write it myself. Plus, the ability to toggle between the html page and the normal page helped me learn the impact of coding and begin to decipher it.
Now, I learn by doing so every time I want to learn something new I usually start a new site, or create a new layout for this one.

Current Sites

	At some point I began collecting articles, photos, quotes from celebritites; things that caught my interest. This was all pre-internet and so all I had was 3 big binders full of paper. It was like a mini-library of celebrity information; useful for school papers, projects or proving you were right about any number of things, but still cumbersome. When I got into building websites I thought, wouldn't it be great if I could somehow transfer my binders into a website? Years of web developing later and finally learning how to build a database I built Magnate. It's still taking time to actually get content online, so it's rather sparse now.
	The first time I tried to create a site collective I created eucatastrophe. The original layout Doan created for this site really inspired me to do something more than just a site collective - I wanted to say something. So I did. I created a site collective with content about faith and art. Then 2 months later I wanted my own domain and didn't need eucatastrophe for my collective anymore. I didn't want to lose it, didn't need it to be a site about me, wanted it to be something poetic and meaningful. So it was partly cannibalized into this site. And since I'd wanted a quote site for a while I decided eucatastrohe would be a good vehicle for that.
	I previously had 5 different sites about WB shows. They were some of the first sites I built actually. But updating them got tedious and felt pretty pointless. So I decided it would be simpler if I consolidated them into one site and built the frog. It's basically everything I liked about my previous sites without the filler I felt I needed just to flesh out an entire site about a show.

Name

The name is multi-faceted.

ei·do·lon :: eye - 'dO - lan :: an unsubstantial image or phantom
It's - a) a great word, really just beautiful to say and elegant and unique in it's spelling and - b) an appropriate reflection of my lack of corporeality (I looked it up and you can conjugate 'corporeal' like that).

but since eidolon.net was taken - I added...

sol·stice :: the two days a year when the equator is furthest from the sun on our elliptical orbit. (I like the word elliptical too.)
I've always loved this word. I don't know why. It sounds like a day where life shifts ever so slightly into a wildness and freedom; an untamable reality that we don't normally know. It conjures images of solstice celebrations of fire and dancing in the woods or a really hot wind over the ocean or something.

They're somehow poetic together and have the possibility of creating images and ideas larger than either word individually.

The Current Layout

When I decided to simplify my websites I needed a new simpler layout. I wanted to go back to Viggo's photos that I started with, but I didn't have anymore that I wanted to use. So, as usual I went with my latest fandom fun - Supernatural. There's really nothing much else to say.