Domain
A Personal Site
appassionato adj. passionate. [Italian]
From being just a design site displaying my (Rilla's) passion in the field of web design over the course of four years, Appassionato in 2007 has turned into a personal site incorporating my blog, personal profile, portfolio and also a resources section retaining the designs and tutorials the old site offered.
If there were ever reasons other than just being spontaneous, ignore me, it's all just laziness it must be the increasing school workload over the years, meaning less leisure time, meaning less devotion to maintaining a pure design site.
But to put it in a more "sophisticated" way, expression can come in two forms of words or art, and I have grown to love both. Thus, the new Appassionato acts as my virtual connection to the wider world, a way for me to release my various emotions and thoughts. In expressing myself, I believe I'm also letting the wider world connect to the person deep down inside me. I adore this two-way connection more than being just a resources provider.
Technicalities
The domain is hosted as a part of my hosting site Snow-Willow.Com, and the domain name is currently registered with GoDaddy.
Appassionato vs wildx.org
To explain the inconsistency between the site name Appassionato and the chosen domain URL wildx.org, I must begin the story from the very start... The site name is in Italian. I noticed that a vast majority of the visiting population have trouble spelling the name off by heart. (Was it due to the unfamiliar language or was it the fact that it's a reasonably "long" word? Perhaps both.) Hence, if I was to use the site name as the URL, my visitors would be getting lost.
And if I was to change the site name?
So to extend the explanation, I decided to change the name to Wintry Passion or Wild Passion. I thought they were too long however, so I shortened Wild Passion to a simple wildx. Further down the path, I realised I had grown attached to the original name Appassionato and on the other hand, it was also the matter of being too lazy to change links and watermarks. The final result was a discrepancy between the site name and the URL. However, it doesn't bother me; it just goes to show that the domain had such a history. Unless of course, you really think I should get appassionato.org or something, tell me. I might consider.
