As a result of my experiences at Ross Goldberg’s seminar this week, I’ve been making a real effort to be more interactive on Twitter. This morning I replied to a tweet by Dr. Mani reminiscing about his first website, and promptly got tagged to write this post about mine.

I built my first website in the summer of 1998 using Angelfire. I didn’t have a clue what I was doing and had never even thought about building a website at that point, but my then-fiance wanted us to have a site. So armed with notepad and their page builder, I created my first site. I remember, it had rainbow backgrounds, all kinds of flashing and animated graphics, and if there were ten words of text on the page that’d be stretching it. It was seriously ugly, but I thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread and was so proud of myself. And of course all my friends ooh’ed and aah’ed over it, and put delusions of being a web designer in my head!

That ugly little site doesn’t exist in any way, shape or form today, and I’ve since gotten divorced and changed my name. But it was the spark that started my love affair with site development and internet marketing, and that’s a love affair that will last the rest of my life.

Thanks, Dr. Mani for letting me take this trip down memory lane with you.

If you want to play along and share memories of your first site, visit Dr. Mani’s blog for details.

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