SPORTS DAY WAS AWESOME!!!!! My team was great. The kids were soooo cooperative. Our score was great too. We won 7 out of 9 games. We would've gotten second place against the kings who cheated, but there was a judging error and the judges thought we won 6 games. About 6 teams tied for second with 6 out of nine and they had a free throw shootout to decide the winner. We lost of course cause I SUCK at free throws. Oh well, sometimes you just gotta learn to let stuff go. Besides having fun is the biggest goal out there and I think my team and I achieved that. Also I'm gonna talk to someone about getting this published soooo... yeah. Skcitt
May, 11, 06
OH YEAH! Tomorrow's Sports day at my school. The eigth graders (which includes me) picks a sports team and go around to play games against the other teams. Mine is the San Antonio Spurs! AND WE'RE GONNA WIN! After we play the games we're gonna perform a cheer to win a spirit award and my cheer ROCKS! Oh, and btw I hope the site is gonna be up soon. I added a guestbook. I don't know if it works yet. It's hard to tell for sure until I publish it. Skcitt
May,10,06 my second post.
Well, I'm still working on the various links and hyperlinks that take you to subwebs. That's a lot of pages I had to create. Oh well, I can't wait to figure out how to publish this, then all you can see this on the internet.
May, 9, 06 MY FIRST POST!!
Hello, Skcitt here. I'm experimenting w/ web page designing. Sounds complicated huh? That's why I'm trying to figure it out. I have a favorite site called fanfiction.net. It's an aspiring author's favorite web site. Here's how it works: You find a favorite TV. show, video game, comic character, whatever- you name it, they got it. Then you write a story based on whatever you chose. You then post it on the website where other authors and visitors can read it and then review it. Currently, I am engrossed in the Avatar: The Last Airbender section, but I'm expanding my horizons to other topics like Kingdom Hearts and Zelda. It's really an awesome site. Whoever reads this should search for me (Skcittambro) and my two friends Drgn Prncss and The Forgotten Bender. Skcitt
August 22, 06
Okay, I know I haven't posted as much as I'd like to, but don't get too upset. I've been workin' hard. I've created a banner for my site and I think it really sucks. I have someone else that offered to make me a professional-looking banner so I'm excited. I have a page dedicated to my Ocarina in the works too. It's gonna have songs I play, maybe even a brief history of the ocarina and a few scans from the songbook. Like I said, it's still in the works. I'm hoping to get more traffic to this site. More traffic, means more people to please, and more people to please, means I have some idea on what I can do to improve this site, and that means I HAVE A BETTER SITE!!! WHOOO! I'm hoping to make this an awesome site. Oh btw, I'm working on stretching the background image so it doesn't repeat at the end. Now I have to edit all my pages, delete them, re-upload them, and make sure they're all right. I also just started High School, and it is a BLAST! I'm having so much fun, and so are the girls *wink *wink. ^-^
August 17, 06
Okay, I added an extra table to the far-left to put the hyperlinks and stuff. But now I have a big empty empty space to the left. Hmmm... any guest comments on how to improve this at all? I need all the help I can get. Oh btw, the background and the far-left table are pictures from Minnesota boundary waters. I liked the sunset picture soo much, I made it as my background on every page.
August 16, 06
Sorry if the updates aren't coming as fast as you'd hope, I've been helping my little sister create her own website. We're gonna get it published today. I just have to tinker with it for it to work. I think something's wrong with the hyperlinks. Oh well, that's nothing that can't be fixed. Let's see, I did manage to update a bit though. For one, I added a hand'drawn pic of my OC Rai in his profile. I also added another page for past blog entries and updates down at the bottom of this scroll-down menu. I think there's something else I forgot to mention... but I can't put my finger on it. Hmmm... oh well. OH YEAH! I added a hit counter on my site entrance page. Keep posted.
August 14, 06
I GOT THIS SITE PUBLISHED!!! It's address is now www.geocities.com/skcitt I hope creating the pages and editing them (for the most part) on FrontPage isn't gonna screw things up.
August 13, 06
Well, sorry for not updating at all. I kinda abandoned hope that I would get this published. Perhaps I should take a look again at the Front Page options on Yahoo. Something seems different about this font. Hold on... That's better. I had it set on a lower font size. Let's see, what can I write about. DUH! I know. One of my best buds from the internet introduced me to this AWESOME Avatar RPG. Her name is Kidate and we've known each other since like the beginning of January. We started out on Fanfiction.net, the we sent email after email, then she invited me to this awesome site where we have been ever since. Here, let me post a link... www.firebenderkaji.proboards76.com On there I am known as Rai and post often. Honestly, check it out. Authors, you will love it. Avatar fans, you will love it too. I've decided to search up some funny squirrel facts and put it on my secret Squirrel Admiration page.
September 2, 06
I know you guys can't see the updates I've been working on yet because I am not completely finished. Just to let you know, Skcitt Site is under COMPLETE reconstruction. I have custom made banners by Adrenalineflash (they look AWESOME!) Actually matching pages. It looks AWESOME, but I am not working them in until I have it all COMPLETELTY finished. Check often and I'll try to get them done as quick as possible. Also, I have some ideas drummed up for new pages but after I get the pages I had before reconstructed and posted, I'll get those done. ^^
October 19, 06
I am not dead. lol. I'm just at an extreme standstill with both the banners from AdrenalineFlash and my computer being offline at the moment. (I'm on a different one now). School's been absolutely awesome but I can't exactly put it into elaborate detail right now but I will tell you that I am absolutely AWESOME in Spanish Class second hour, or should I say Espan~ol 114 -3a hora. Okay the punc. was WAY off but I don't know how to do it in html format. ^-^ The pages still look awesome, I wish unimaginably that I could work on them now but I've been out of commission for several weeks. SCHEDULE THE DARN THING ALREDY!! *yells at the computer (la computadora)
p.s. I also have ANOTHER web site put on hold that I am designing for my BSA troop. I will probably put up a link from here once I can work on it to the point were that can happen.
November 9, 06
Sorry to say, but FirebenderKaji has been deleted. If you have know idea what the heck I'm talking about check out my Avatar OC's page. Since I cannot edit my pages the way I need to, I am limited to editing the html on this page to keep you informed. If you haven't known about this yet, my computer has been down for a LOOONNNGGG time, and it just won't seem to fix. (I'm updating this via internet). Well, I guess since I am here I might as well tell you about some ting going on at school. Well, today I was at home sick. -_- I swear I've missed more days in this semester than I have my entire eight years in grade school. I HATE missing school days. It just seems to come back and haunt me. Well, I'd have to say one of my favorite classes in Spanish. For some reason I am just natural at foreign language. I have a German teacher for study hall and she has me grade her papers often because I usually have nothing to do (you could say I'm sort of a follow-the-rules bever-get-in-trouble kinda guy, CORRECTION I could say that I'm a follow-the-rules never-get-in-trouble kinda guy, if you do I'll come after you *laughs maniacly) Well anyways, yesterday she had me grade a few tests and I found two that I had graded before and for some reason I knew EXACTLY the right answers, graded them, and handed them back to them. She keeps pushing for me to take German next year. Who knows, maybe I'll end up taking German AND Spanish. It's also pretty interesting that I get to grade my friends' papers, (I'm like the only one of the group in Spanish) so I always writethem little notes and tell them their grades early ^_^. Yeah it's a blast. OH if you haven't guessed before; 1: I will not be able to edit any other pages until my computer gets fixed 2: I am still awaiting the banners from AdrenalineFlash (who is also having computer trouble 3: I'm getting an "A" in Spanish *-^ 4: I have ANOTHER web site on hold for my Scout troop that I can't work on either (sorry fellas) 5: I am putting things in from past entries that are still in the works 6: The next thing will be in Spanish ^-^.
Bueno, Tengo que irme. Adios mis amigos. Skcitt
December 29, 06
I just got out of practice for a musical I'm in, High School Musical Live. You know, the Disney movie. Well, yeah. I get to play the role of a Thespian (actor) named James, and he gets to be tone deaf in the audition song which is Bop to the Top/ What I've been looking for. The piece is HILARIOUS and yet surprisingly easy. I can't wait till the audience sees that number, even I couldn't hold back laughing. Another amazing thing the cast gets to do is perform as a closing act and lead the countdown in a special New Year's Eve celebration held in my city. It's gonna be AWESOME! We get to perform our (slightly modified) finale We're All in this Together. But wait, that's not the last song in the musical, Megamix is. So wouldn't Megamix be the finale? Hmmmmmmm... Oh well. Hasta Luego (English: See you later. Spanish literal: Until later.) ^^
December 28, 06
After long hours working nonstop to get this layout reworked and posted, I FINALLY have it up. Tell me what you think in my Guest Book. I owe a debt of thanks to my new labtop. It works GREAT! Tell me how all your Christmases worked out for each of you, I'm interesting in hearing it all. Just post it up in my Guest Book. As you can tell, I really like my Guest Book. So, do me a favor and PLEASE sign it. I absolutely LOVE getting sigs. ^^
December 25, 06
I'm now putting all the layout together, hoping it'll all work..
December 25, 06
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! I've got great news. Due to recent festivities, I am now able to update my web site. WHOOOO!!!! I can FINALLY put up the layouts I have done and work on layouts still not finished. -_-
December 7, 06
Well, the computer dude came. The good news is he didn't find a virus, the bad news is that my computer is so old is breakin' down on me. I'm not sure what I'm gonna do but I know that my new labtop will fix that problem well, but it's not ready yet and once again, I'm not sure when it will be. I WILL UPDATE THIS A SOON AS I CAN!!! Well, in other news, I did get an A+ on an algebra test I was worried about. I'm happy. My grades are actually really great. If they aren't all A+'s, they're B+'s, which I'm still happy about. I did get my grade back for the baby simulator in Health and got an A. It woke me up so many times in the night, I got pretty used to rocking in my sleep. ^-^ Ooh, gotta go, I'm on the English lab computer and just got finished writing a paper. Maybe, I'll post it on here sometime.... or maybe not. Hasta Luego.
January 30, 07
Well, I haven't been updating in a while. Well, I may not be physically working on this website... -_- but I have been working on it mentally. ^^ I have some design aspects to work on. ALSO, a FREGGIN' AWESOME new layout after what I'm using to design my BSA troops' web site. Well, the current layout w/ the unclear theme and too many pages for data transfer passage. @_@
January 1, 07
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! Well, as for updates I don't really have anything other than an updated past entries page. BUT, I have to go out tomorrow and get surgery. AHH! I'm so nervous yet so anxious. AND IT HAS TO BE THE SECOND DAY OF THE NEW YEAR! It's not gonna be anything truly complex, but I'm still nervous. Also, yesterday, I had a performance with the rest of the cast of High School Musical Live. We performed our finale, We're All in This Together and lead the New Year's Countdown. We did GREAT! and I actually remembered the dance this time!
February 11, 07
YES! I FINALLY GOT MY PAST LAYOUTS PAGE WORKED OUT! You can check out the link on the left. It contains titles, dates, descriptions, and pictures of my past layouts. Of course, there's only two. I am working on another one though. ^^
March 13, 07
An amazing new layout is to be put up, as well as updated info and interesting things. I know I say this about every layout I create, but this one is freggin' awesome! I designed the background myself also, so that's a plus. ^^ Check back in a day or two, and I'll have it finished. ^^
March 22, 07
All right, I have a lot of new stuff for you.
1) I added a new link to imageshack.us in my Links page.
2) I have a new Images page for Avatar-Themed backgrounds and blog layouts. Click on images in my left frame.
3) I have 7 new backgrounds designed by me, and 3 new blog layouts. I think you'll love them. ^^
March 17, 07
Happy St. Patrick's Day! Just wanted to let you all know that the Images page is being worked on right now, which includes Avatar-themed backgrounds and hopefully blog layouts. ^^ Check back again for more updates.
March 14, 07
I GOT THE NEW AWESOME LAYOUT UP! This works a LOT better than the one before. Most of the info's updated. I also added the Spanish translation of the Avatar intro in my Avatar OC's page. Check everything out, just sign my GuestBook! ^^
March 13, 07
Now, I'm working on all the pages I've had in my past sites and converting them to fit this layout. It shouldn't take too long... I hope.
March 12, 07
I'm working on the layout for my site. This should look really great when it's finished. I decided to test out the site's principle in my Boy Scout Troop's website, that I design also. ^^ The link is here. Check it out.
April 23, 07
The move is getting pretty complicated. I'm not used to designing in MediaWiki. I started out on pure html. I'll get it sooner or later though. Also, I'm taking down my affiliation with Avatar Portal (or whatever it's called) because I haven't seen any affiliation on their part. Oh well. To any web-designers out there. I'm open to affiliation! Just send me an email via contact form. ^^
April 22, 07
Haha! Boy do I have an exciting update for all of ya! On top of starting to create my ocarina page, I am going to MOVE! That's right MOVE! In a while, my website is going to become of subsite of Avatarrp.info. I'll reorganize to include more images and a separation between personal and Avatar. This is gonna be so much fun. Hopefully all of you will still be coming as regulars, and submit some of your own images as well as request. This is an Avatar fansite, so show your spirit, contribute. I'm very excited, this will turn out great. I might keep a sample of this site to keep a momentum. I'm pitching up a new layout as well (of course), and the name will be changed to OceanGraphics. Skcitt is MUCH harder to remember than OceanGraphics. Next time I'll update will probably once I'm done with the move. Enjoy! ^^
April 9, 07
I do have an exciting update! I decided to get a C-Box (chat box) to put on this site, but it seems I won't be able to put it up until I organize a new layout. So here's a link to it instead! http://skcitt.cbox.ws/. It's getting more and more clear to me that a new layout is in oreder. One that separates my personal stuff from the Avatar stuff. That way I can be counted more as an Avatar fansite as well as a personal site. I still shouldn't lose ties to this also being my personal site. The Easter eggs are getting rather old rather quick. I was thinking of keeping them up a little longer, but they might be gone soon. Voice your opinion, using either my C-Box, Email Form, or Guestbook! Enjoy! ^^
April 8, 07
Happy Easter! In honor of todays festivities, I decorated my site with EASTER EGGS! Hopefully, I can revert the back when I'm done. But, I'll worry about that later. Last night, for the Easter Vigil mass in my church, I had my cantoring and instrumental performance, and did amazing in each. For those who wished me good luck, THANKS! I took everything I learned in my vocal lessons, and applied it to the song. In result, everybody understood what I was saying, while being able to throw my own personal style into the music. I'm ecstatic. Once again, HAPPY EASTER TO ALL! Now as far as updates go, I have a new affiliate Element Shrine! and I have the Easter Layout up on a new Special Layouts page in Past Layouts! That should cover it update-wise. ^^ Enjoy!
April 7, 07
Today, is the day before Easter, otherwise stated as the Easter Vigil. I, being the wonderful vocalist and musician that I am, will be cantoring (lead singing) for the Vigil mass in my church. I'm excited! I've been working on the song with my vocal coach and it sounds pretty good. I'm also performing my first actually transcribed song "As the Deer Longs" on my Ocarina. I would record the performance to put on my Ocarina page, if I had the right equipment to get the sounds on here. Therefore, without being able to put the recordings in the page, I really don't have much of an Ocarina page, So I don't have one. Once everything falls into place, I'll put it up here. ^^ Wish me luck!
April 6, 07
I have the past entries page updated and extended. I'm still also working on new Backgrounds, Blogs, Avatars, and Sigs. And I'm still taking requests. Please send me them in the contact page. I also added this layout to the past layouts page. ^^
April 4, 07
Updates have been slow. The only thing I can really show you is the Next Avatar Episode thing at the top. WHEN IS SEASON III GONNA START!!!! I have been working on some more backgrounds and blogs, as well as some Avatar icons and sigs. I am taking requests, so just send me one on my contact page, but be sure to PUT YOUR EMAIL so I know where to send it. If that's not possible, I'll just post it on here under a requests section of the images page and wait for you to come and claim it, again by the contact link. ^^ Enjoy!
April 2, 07
Well, I haven't been able to do much lately. I just got done refitting the bottom frame on this to fit better. I am taking requests for Backgrounds and Blog layouts if anyone wants to hit me up. I can also make sigs for forums I also got a new image editing program so I can do a lot more for them. ^^ Other than that, I'm waiting for ideas on updates.
May 29, 07
I haven't made much progress with the move, if any. Although, I'm about to get a break-through then everything will flow much more smoothly. Right now, everything's pretty much compiling on top and I needed to prioritize. This web site is not the highest thing on my list of priorities and I need to finish other things first. I'll finish sometime I promise.
August 24, 07
Haha! I have some good news and bad news. The bad news is, I can't seem to work with the new things over at avatarrp and haven't seen the owner to talk to him in quite a long time. The good news is I'm moving back here and with an awesome new layout! My friend Pon De Replay designed it for me from Breakthrough-Designs It features something quite new and exciting, css coding. I'm still learning how to use it all, but so far it seems much easier than the mediawiki. I'm having a lot of fun with it. I may get a little anxious and decide to post up my home page before creating all the other pages. It's much more efficient too! She created an external style sheet which applies all the scrollbar, background, and design codes into the page already. So I just need to write ut a few more codes for content, copy the navigation and credit info, and I have a new page. I'm still learning it all though, I'm not an expert in html, I'm all self-taught. I'm still keeping the OceanGraphics name. (I can't change the url though, unless I want to uprgade to a paid site. I don't have a steady income to do that yet. Until that happens I shouldn't even consider it.)I do have some cool images to show you all! ^^
August 25, 07
Icon Hey, welcome back to the new and improved OceanGraphics website. If you haven't noticed already, I have a completely awesome new layout written in a style I am now learning. My friend Pon De Replay designed this for me and I am extremely grateful. Bear with me, I'm still getting used to this and things may be a little weird as I'm learning. Some pages may not be up yet.
Remember when I said I was moving? Well, I couldn't get the hang of using mediawiki. My friend that offered me the hosting, I haven't heard from in a few months. So, I decided, I'd better get a move on things and get things working. I've tried with it for long enough. Although, if he does show up sometime soon, I'll chat with him and see how things turn out.
Also, while I was working on designs.avatarrp, I found some great graphic artists who were willing to have me showcase their material. I'll have that up soon too. I'll just say things look great! ^_^ I'm even going to try and do a css coding as a new layout for another website I design for my local boy scout troop. I'll see how things turn out.
September 27, 07
Icon I have a very exciting update for you all. I have created the Avatar OC's page. I have created a completely different layout for this page, so now I know I can create at least this type of website layouts. So, you can go ahead and request one from me if you wish. ^^ Whenever I have another good amount of time, I'll post a website layout and add that to the navigation. Also, when I created this Icon, I created a Spanish version of it.
Icon I do gave some pretty cool Icons to post when I have another update. I think you'll enjoy them. ^^ For these next two weeks I have four-day weekends. Whooo! So, I'll some more time to work on things, including this website! Hence, the new section with a completely new layout.
September 24, 07
Icon Well, I have a few updates to mention. 1. A new sig contributed by 987654321y. 2. A new affiliate Trigger-Happy. 3. The Guestbook Viewing Page is up with three new signatures (1 is from me ^^) 4. Implied update of the new icon. 5. Fixed Contact Form
Things are looking pretty good. I'm getting a lot of views and communication from all you guys on here. With much luck, this site will grow to something big. ^^ One problem though, My Geocities data transfer limit of 4.2 mb/hr. This is the cause of my website being sometimes unavailable. It's from a lot of views. That's geocities way of getting people to buy the full feature. Well, I need some feedback. Does anybody know a great free website hosting service that I wouldn't have the data transfer problem with, but will keep features like form generation (Lord knows I need that). If the problem occurs and I get a lot of people to contribute and come to this site, I'll eventually just buckle down and buy my own domain. I won't do that until I know it's something that would be worthwhile. I don't know, shoot me your opinion. My design skills will get better once I can get the money I've earned to buy Paint Shop Pro.
September 22, 07
Icon The Awakening was pretty good. In my opinion, it did just what it was supposed to. They needed an episode that explained what all happened in the nine month absence. It felt kind of a let-down though. We waited all this time just to hear what's been going on. No real story development went on. It was still really good though. I can't wait for the next episodes. Things are gonna be awesome!
Update-wise, I have the new icons posted, new episode time, and I have created the Guestbook signing page. My Guestbook is gonna be completely manual, which means you write it down, I get it, read it, and rewrite it into the currently non-existant Guestbook viewing page. I'll probably add it once I get some entries. So, SIGN AWAY! Also, if you haven't noticed, I've added my site to the avatar top fansites ranking system. Click on the link to vote for me, since you all know this is a completely rockin' fansite. So,... vote.
September 21, 07
Icon TODAY IS THE PREMIERE OF AVATAR: SEASON III FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you don't watch it, I'll come after you in your sleep! Me, I have to record it, because I'm going to the biggest High School football game of the year so far, with my school! I'll watch it later though. So, either you sit down and watch it, or you record it and watch it as many times as you wish later. Got it?
Update-wise, I added the submit and request forms. So, they're good to go. Now I have all the pages under those to complete, and those will be the harder ones. At least I have the major site bulk stuff done. Now I just need some people to submit, or me to make some more stuff so my site can grow. btw, I though of this icon randomnly the other night. I thought it was funny, or it may just be me. I'm still working for money to buy Paint Shop Pro some I can make some better quality graphics. Also, I need anybody, if they encounter a problem in navigation while cruising from page to page, besides the links below the request link, to tell me. I don't know those are there if they are.
September 15, 07
Icon Well, I had some time to put up the fanart page, which is lacking of such. Perhaps somebody would be willing to contribute. ^^ If you haven't noticed, I'm trying to fill pages in going down, so next will be the submit your work form. Oh, and I have a treat for you. I asked some of the people who contributed work to my site if they'd be wiliing to take requests. Only one said no, but when I create my requests page, you'll be able not only to request graphics from me, but from other designers who are much better than me. ^^ I'll be able to channel the requests to them.
Also, I'm trying to raise money to buy Paint Shop Pro (No you don't have to contribute). At first, I thought about Photoshop, but that's about $700. Yeah, no way! My cousin told me Paint Shop Pro would be better. It's 7x cheaper and you're only missing a few features. So, I'm definitely doing Paint Shop Pro. I should be expecting a check in a while from a presentation I gave. Being internet smart, I'm not going to tell you much about it other than I was the main speaker. Yes, I'm only 15, but I have something special to present on. Also, I've been thinking a lot lately and have decided where I'm going to get my first job and how. I'm going to get trained in the Red Cross to become a lifeguard and work at a marina near my home. I could take lifeguarding sessions through Boy Scouts, but I bet they'd take Red Cross over Boy Scouts anyday.
Oh, one more thing. If you haven't noticed, I try to keep adding a new Icon to each of my posts. Each one I add, I put up on the icons page. I'm debating whether to put up contributed icons, or just keep the posted icons from me. Oh well, I'll figure that out later. For now, enjoy the "My Personal GuardLemur" icon. Yes, I know the GuardLemur is hard to read. It's hard to write in something so small.
September 14, 07
Icon I have some new things to put up. One being my Sigs page now works. I tinkered with it a bit with how I wanted it to look. I tested having each of the images up there, but I didn't like the clutteryness and clashing colors. I also tried putting things in tables, but I couldn't get the text to NOT change when I put it inside. Oh well, I'll probably figure that out later. Anyway, I settled on separating different sigs by a horizontal line. Check it out and tell me if you like it.
Also, I had a request for affiliation from one of my friends, 987654321y. Since he's my friend, I'll accept him. His site seems to be more personal and he is fairly new to html. Anyway, new sites could always use a bit of work and I'll help him out. Once he gets more experience, his site could be really great. Heck, have you seen my first layout? You will be able to again once I put the past layouts page up. ^^
September 9, 07
Icon Well, hello. I decided to post things a little early. So far only the links from >>home down to >>Avatars and Icons work. I'll update with new pages when I finish them.
I gotta say. I am ecstatic about how things turned out for my site. Sure, I never got to open up with avatarrp.info, but I have a new awesome layout, redifined purpose, and some new friends. It's a new time, things can change for the better. I'm deeply sorry for not opening up after I've been trying to since Easter. As you see, my work has not been in vain and neither has you wait. Now, I just need everyone to bear with me as I try and put everything in place. As you may all know, school is very time-consuming so I probably won't have a big update everyday, but I will get things done when I can.
I'll still accept any graphics from people even though the form isn't up. You can send me a url in my contact form I guess, or you can find me on Avatarspirit.net and just give it to me there. I want to thank everyone who has posted already, I still have more to put up. ^_^
October 1, 2007
Icon Well, for yesterday's update which I had to post today because of bad internet connection, I don't have anything really bulky besides an updated episode watch, new guestbook entry, fixed affiliate link, and the implied icon update. I'm trying to plan out a layout for the squirrel admiration mini-site. Why do I even have one? Er... will have I guess. It's for squirrels! I know squirrels are my favorite animal but an admiration mini-site!? That borders obsession. Anyway, I might make it, I might not. I have a bit to put in there, but I may just skip it and move on to... the ocarina page I think. Great, now that I've created a completely different layout for my Avatar OC's page, I'm locked into making two others for the squirrels and ocarina page. The ocarina page will need some extra work. I haven't recorded my songs yet, so I'll have to do that. I might even put up a piano song or to for you to listen to. My Aunt requested me to play at her wedding. This is probably the biggest thing I've ever done in piano and it surprised me that she picked me. I may not be the best reader, but once I learn a piece, I can put so much emotion into it, it blows people away. You might like to hear one. ^^ I've even had some old, famous piano guy say that I didn't just play the music, I felt it. I though that was really cool. ^^ Anyways, I've been pretty much swamped so far with work and school. I might have to pull back a bit on updates. I'll probably be working on the weekends for a bit for a temporary job you could say. Short, I'm busy. I have a life. Computer free time is limited. Same story as always. Enjoy!
October 8, 07
Icon Sorry for the prolonged update. I wanted to wait until I have something to update with. Things were very busy. I've been working all weekend and even had homecoming last Saturday. Things went very well, I had a blast... and so did my girlfriend. ^^ Well, update-wise, I have a new layouts page including a Myspace layout I've worked on all weekend. It's okay but it's my first. I'll practice it and come up with something even better. For now, you can have that. I have that up on my own Myspace. Also, I have two new backgrounds added: the one from the layout (with a texture from Breakthrough-Designs and various screenshots from Avatarspirit with some other screenshots by me. ^^) and one I made called Left Behind? Once again, it's alright, but I need some work. I'll set aside one day and just go to town on graphics.
October 12, 07
Icon I have a few new sigs for you, well four to be exact. I think I'm getting better at these. I'm trying to make sigs that feature a single character. I have Momo, Master Pakku, The Painted Lady, and an extra featuring all of Master Pakku's pupils. I'm trying to work on a Myspace Layout request from a girl at my school. It isn't about Avatar though, so I won't post it when I finish it. Although, if you want to see it, I'll put it up in an update. Go ahead and tell me in the C-Box. I still have open requests for all of the artists. You don't have to just request me, I have a small list of some great graphics designers. Hey, I've got a question for all of you. Should I post requests on this web site, or should I keep them between the creator and the requestee? Send me a shout-out on the Contact form. I have some really good icons I have prepared, as well as some not-so-good one. -_- I don't want to let them go to waste, so I may just mingle them into some of my updates. Send me a comment on what you thought of the new episode in my Guestbook!
I've also been planning out on moving to a new host. Paid service on bluehost. My mother also wants me to design a website for her to promote her buisiness so we can share the host. That way, I won't have to pay all the cost. ^^
November 3, 07
Icon So sorry about the lag in updates. I went to Canada for a week to speak at an international conference. When I came back, my internet wasn't working. Oy! Anyways, It works now obviously and I spent the offline time catching up on a serious load of homework. I think I missed five tests, three quizzes, one big lab, and 8 worksheets. Oh, and the start of a project (er.. proyecto). I was extrememly busy. On top of that, I had a choral concert two days after I got back for show choir and GTU (really hard vocal jazz). My director had pushed the date back to not interfere with my presentation mainly because I represent 1/4 of the guys and 1/2 of the tenors. The concert went great and I had a lot of fun. Our GTU group started rehearsing our first song without music the day before. Let's say that wasn't such a smart move by our director. We managed to pull it off perfectly at the concert though so that was good. ^^
Let's see, on to updates. I joined Pon de Replay's itopsite the Dai Li. Be sure to vote for me. I'm already pretty far down on the list from joining and not being able to post up. I also have another artist to add to my requestee list, Ryanj27. Oh, and an updated request form where you can select whether or not you want your request posted on this site. I added the sample work he sent me and it looked really good. Check out his two icons on the avatars and icons page and his sig on the sigs page. I may have to think of a better way to organize the sig page. I also added some older icons I made that I didn't really want to put in my posts because I always made ones I liked better. Well, I posted four of them as well as the one I made for this update that I like. I also added an icon from Sedai. There is a matching sig with it, but I'll post it when she finished using it. She's not using the icon though so I can post that.
I finished another page. This one took a little bit of time to work out, my Past Updates archive. Click on the link to get there. Remember, I still don't have all the >>other pages done so if you click on them nothing will happen except the page will reload. I think the organization is pretty good but if you have a better idea on how to do so please tell me. The past updates archive has every single update I have ever posted! If I forgot to mention some other update sorry. I did get a nice halloween gift from my friend Konoko from Trigger Happy, but since the holiday is over, I figured I wouldn't show it to you. Ah what the heck, here it is! Tell me how your Halloweens went! Oh one more thing, tomorrow I'll be traveling up north in my state to perform in my old pastor's new church. Well, the entire adult church choir. (even though I'm not an adult (15) it's counted more on maturity. We have plenty of younger members) The funny thing is, one of my very good friends lives up to where we're going so maybe I'll get to spend time with him. ^^ Enjoy!
November 10, 07
Icon Phew, I have a few new graphics for you. Including the usual new icon from me. I have 5 new icons and 5 new sigs from Sedai. They are some she made from requests so some do have names on them. I even posted the one she made for me called "Waterbending: The Art of True Design." Let's see, I made a new blog. Check it out. I think you'll like it. I noticed a problem with the forms. The default when you fill out a form is to be redirected to a message sent page I chose to redirect you to the home page. In doing so, another floating ad appears. You can close out of it though. I can let the redirect page be the default, but I don't like that idea. Oh well, no big deal.
What did you think of "The Puppetmaster?" I thought the episode was kinda creepy, but I really liked it. I can't wait to see the next episode, which by the way is "Nightmares and Daydreams." Ooh, sounds interesting. Go ahead and give me a shout out and tell me your thoughts. As always, please tell me about any mistakes or errors I make.
November 24, 07
Icon Well, sorry for the late update. Hope you had an excellent Thanksgiving. Where I was, I didn't have internet, if I did I would have definitely had this up in time for the festivities. This one isn't relatively big, but the updates I did do, I had to apply to every single page, and that became quite a hassle. Anyway, if you scroll down, you can see I have a new affiliate, Growing-Dream. Also, if you check out the backgrounds page, I have a really cool new background called "Blow Me Away" which I did using Pon De Replay's tutorial from Breakthrough-Designs. I really couldn't use it though, I just borrowed the ideas and found ways to do them using my program.
In speaking of my program, I downloaded a trial for Photoshop and am still figuring out how to use it. Some things look new, but a lot seems that I can do already. Some major differences include using layers and effects for those layers, and being able to use my own brushes. Let's see,... I have a new Guestbook signature from Bobby. Really, it only says hi, but what the heck, I put it up anyway. I decided to put my Avatars in a little scrollbox so it doesn't take up the entire page. ^^
I can't really think of anything else I did site-wise, but I do have some personal news. I finally got my Driver's Permit. I'm a summer birthday, so even though I was 15 for a bit, I still got pushed around. I was 7 days late for being able to take the Driver's Ed class during the summer. -_- I even got my permit late. As you can imagine, state workers+ Thanksgiving= long wait for permit. My parents got tired of waiting and had me driving anyways. Well, now I'm legal and they're having me drive quite a lot. My total so far with only four days in 3 hrs and 14 min. I'm still extremely nervous about driving. It's a pretty scary thing to do. Maybe, I'll put up a driving counter so you can see how much I've driven towards my 50 hr requirement lol. Well, I think I'll end on that note. Enjoy!
December 8, 07
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Well, time for another update. I don't have much to put up, but I did add another guestbook entry and a new link. I
found this random site called Nobody Here. It is pretty weird, but it will keep
you entertained for a long time.
Other than that, I want to tell you that many people have been requesting Neopet layouts for guilds and such. I don't
know how to do those and neither does anybody on my artists list. The only person I know that can is Pon de Replay at
Breakthrough Designs. So, stop asking me for them and start asking her.
I had a big school concert tonight. I performed 20 different songs. 12: Show Choir; 6: Vocal Jazz; 2: Special Auditioned.
It was amazing, and my solo got the biggest applause out of anything. It was great!
I didn't bother adding the air date for The Western Air Temple. I heard a rumor it will air Dec. 28th, but I don't know for
sure. If somebody finds out for sure, let me know. As for the update, sorry, nothing else. Tata. ^^
December 25, 07
Icon Merry Christmas everybody! I don't have a whole lot to update with besides some big news. Because my parents felt so generous, I now have Photoshop Elements to begin toyinh around with. Once I get the hang of it, you'll get some really neat stuff. I'm planning some more animated icons like that one, in the future. You might want to know that most forums do keep a size limit on icons and the animation may be too much for it. On other big news, do you remember when I told you I was planning my move to bluehost to get on top of my data transfer limit, well I am. I was setting it up this afternoon. I can get the hang of that much easier than photoshop. So, be warned, my address will change in a short while, after I get things settled in. I do think I'll ask my good friend 987654321y to do a little overview checkup before I open it up, but other than that, I'm not giving out the new url yet. I gotta say, I'm extremely excited.
Graphics-wise, I am expecting two wallpapers designed by Pon De Replay from breakthrough-designs.com, so you know it ought to be good. After all, she designed the layout for my site, and boy am I glad she did. I don't think I was getting very far with the older layout. I have a sig by 987654321y added as well. Oh, by the way, I'll be creating my past layouts page as well as the other "other" pages, whenever. Hopefully, I'll get plenty of things done over Christmas break, but I can't promise anything. Gotta say, I'm pretty busy away from my site, but I love doing this anyway. Hate to say this, but I'm starting to get a little design-hungry. I've started dreaming up another layout for my site. Don't expect it ANYTIME soon. This layout is far too good, and I haven't even finished creating everything yet!
January 1, 08
Icon Happy New Year! Welcome to 2008. This year, I think, is going to be a time for change, a time to grow, a time to stretch out and become better people. I think I'm going to have a blast this year! In speaking of changes, I am now MOVING to http://www.ocean-graphics.net. Get used to typing that in your browser instead of the stupid geocities link. It took me forever, but I finally fixed the forms on my website. My old forms were part of geocities, but the ones on my new domain are from emailmeform.com I modified them quite a bit to get them to look similar to the old ones. If you haven't noticed, the new icon is one of my first tries with photoshop. I like, I hope you do too. ^^
I discovered that my affiliate growing-dream has dropped out of the avatar industry and therefore, I must cancel our affiliacy. I will have a new filler though from another site I was invited to help build with my friend Kidate. She and I are building an rpg site named The Avatar Tree, based off the unity concept from the giant tree in "The Swamp." Once I finish deisgning the skins and putting it together, I'll add it to my affiliates and links. On top of that, my mother wants me to design her a website for her buisiness. I'm not gonna give you any more information about that so don't bother asking. ^^ Phew, my work is cut out for me these next couple of days. Good thing I'm still on break or I'd be completely swamped! I love all the support out there from my fellow Avatar fans. We are the avatarverse. Oh, by the way, I noticed that tv.com has had a couple direct links to its Avatar: The Last Airbender section on its Home Page for a while now. I think that's a pretty big honor. I use tv.com a lot to check episode airings which is where I get my marquee at the top. In speaking of the marquee, I still have no idea when "The Wester Air Temple" will air in the U.S., so I still can't change the date. -_-
Let me think... anything else I forgot to mention? Hmm... Oh yeah! If you find any errors in my site move, please tell me. Chances are, I've overlooked them, except for the squirrel, ocarina, profile, and past layouts page, those haven't been made yet.
January 5, 08
Icon Whoo! I have a pretty big update for you. I have ten, that's right, TEN icons from Sedai, so you know they're good. I also have a great sig from 987654321y, one new guestbook signing from my friend Koji, a new affiliate, Avatar: The Dark Legend, and I still have no idea when "The Western Air Temple" is airing in the U.S. even though they've already aired "The Firebending Masters" in Canada!
I do have a bad bit of news for you. I have to take Pon de Replay's name off the designers list. She's been much too busy to do any requests. Ooh, and with that, I might even take off Website Layout off the request options too. Nobody on my list can do them, and I'm not that good at them... yet. I still have PLENTY of openings on my list. Just send me some work (maybe something to post on here ^^), so I can see what you can do and so do the requesters, and I'll add you.
Tell me what you think of this new icon I made. It took me quite a long time to get everything right, I had to redo it twice. Ah well, tell me whether you think I should continue ones like it. ... Hmm... I can't think of much else to talk about. Guess I pretty much covered it up there.
January 13, 08
Icon Well, I've been really busy lately. I added anoter affiliate, Avatar Harmony, and updated the Trigger-Happy link, and posted a new guestbook signature. I don't really like this new avatar but it's what I had so sorry. I've been completely busy with a musical which I am having an ENORMOUS amount of fun with. I've been working non-stop on a request layout. It's for my ex-girlfriend's band Latina. Let's see, here's the base graphic. It's not completely done yet. I can do layouts like these now. ^^
January 21, 08
Icon I've been extremely busy lately. I've been doing a musical (Beauty and the Beast) and that has been sucking away at my time but I love it a lot. I'm also in like four different choirs and vocal groups so,... yeah. ^^ I've also been trying to complete a bunch of requests for me. Ugh, some just take forever.
In speaking of requests, my ex-girlfriend gave me a website layout request for her band latina. After a while, I figured out that pictures she was giving me of her band performing (which I haven't seen) were actually of the band RBD. I called her out and we discussed thing. Apparently, it was just a big ploy to get me to go out with her again. Well, I really liked the layout, because by then, I had it finished. Anyway, I took it apart and threw in some things about Avatar and it became a really great layout featuring Sokka from the episode "Sokka's Master." Go check it out on my layouts page. Also, I created this icon using the layout. Keep those requests coming, but not all to me. Give me something I can dole on out. Bwuahahaha.^^
January 26, 08
Icon Man, these updates are getting extremely tedious. I take the extra time and update every single thing by hand. It's boring to go through and change little things on every page. Well as for this update, I went through and trimmed some loose ends. I got rid of my affiliation with Avatar: The Dark Legend considering, it no longer exists. I did add another one though, Avatar Aang. I really like his site, it could use some work though too, just like mine. -_- Anyway, I also added a 404 error page so that when you click on the things that I don't have finished, it'll tell you. ^^ Also, I added my Past Layouts page which shows every little embarrassing layout I've ever had and demonstrating my growth in internet knowledge. Ugh, that should belong in some old vault with the key missing. Haha
As for a glimpse in my personal life, I went out on a date last saturday with an AMAZING girl. She's in my vocal music class and is gorgeous. She has an amazing personality that just happens to keep a great conversation going for about three hours, while we were eating grinders in a pizzaria. Did I mention she's drop-dead beautiful. During our last concert, she was the only thing my eyes really did focus on. Well, now my head's caught in the clouds. Hahaha.
February 2, 08
Icon Once again, my family is getting pretty ticked at the amount of time it takes for me to complete one update. I tried to make a change-off by trading all the time I mess with my website during the week, to make one update each weekend saturday or sunday, give or take. Yet, I still take pretty much all day to complete it because it's all done by hand. I don't know what to do. I don't like making my family angry like that.
Well, anyways, I have 12 new icons by a new designer, Frozen, as well as 5 sigs. I also put up a new layout from me. I was practicing something and I kinda liked what I did. It isn't Avatar-related, but I didn't want to ruin it by throwing in a vexel of the aang gang. It's good and extremely simple. I simply titled it Splatter because that was my inspiration. I'd better make this as short as possible so enjoy what I have so far!
March 20, 08
Icon I am soooo sorry about not updating. I have been the busiest person alive these past couple months. I did huge show choir competitions, performed in a musical, performed in soloists competitions, auditioned for another show (and got a big part too), working on big school assignments, choreographing for my show choir, performing in concerts, doing anything I really can but didn't expect to fall on me all at once. My vocal director in my school noticed the scheduling of a bunch of things and knew the kind of stress we were gonna be under. I was absolutely stressed to the max. I am so glad I finally got some of the things I needed to get done here out of the way though. In speaking of which, here is my update list for today.
. Switched Avatar Harmony from Affiliate to Link Exchange
. Added both Konoko14 and Suki to the designers list
. Updated link to Avatar Aang
. Added new affiliate, Trust Your Heart
. Put up a new icon
. added three new guestbook sigs
As I always say, I'm only a teenager, if you find a mistake anywhere let me now. Chances are I don't know it's there. ^^ Also, if you have something specific you think I need to update with, tell me.
March 30, 08
Icon Hey, I just wanted to put up a small update before the week started. If you're wondering, my trip to the Dells was awesome. It was only for a couple days but I still had fun. I even met two of my friends from school at one of the waterparks. I couldn't believe it. I mean, what are the chances of running into two of my friends not only in the same town and the same time but in the same waterpark? Ah well. Anyway, I added a blog I created for Hannah by request. She let me post it up here. It's based on Suki and has a nice purple glow around it. It's a little bigger than the others but I still like it. Let's see... the new icon for this entry was made by Frozen and I added it to her collection. I moved the older posts from January to the Past Entries page. Now, it's just February and March up. ^^
As you can see, I'm still working on requests, but now I'm kinda tired of working constantly on them so I'm gonna temporarily remove my name from the designers list. I'll put it back on sometime when I want to start them back up, but now I just want a small break. I'll still work on ones I have received. As for this update, I now pronounce it closed. ^^
August 2, 08
Icon As you all may well have known, my new layout is pretty much finished. I'm just waiting on some affies to contact me back for updating. I must say, it is by far the best I've done so far. It includes artwork by two deviant artists, javascript drop down menus, lytebox image viewing, page fades (you'll see why, not available in firefox -_-), reorganized navigation, new credits page (I needed one badly), and a bunch of other new stuff. I still expect people to send in some artwork to me. I'd say the purpose of this site is to showcase many avatar works for usage not just by me (cause I can SUCK),but by a bunch of people. My job is to make sure the site looks pretty. ^^ Haha Anyway, I'll be leaving for California the 7th for a week and won't be able to update the website during that time. I probably wouldn't anyway unless I got some submissions. So, I will set the time toset up the new website for Tuesday, the 5th in the evening. Expect to see it up (or being put up) at that time. Enjoy!
