History
I started off with a personal site in late 2002 and co-owned a graphics site with two other school friends. However, co-owning imposed many restrictions and conflicts. Though the graphics offered by each person could freely exhibit our personal styles, the site design and overall content could not. In the end, the site was closed and while my two friends decided to stick to their own blogs, I went on with providing graphic resources and proceeded deeper into this so-called "web design community".
On 17 February 2003, Appassionato was launched as a design site, providing a wide range of free graphics, layouts and tutorials. As the site expanded throughout a year, I converted from the common HTML to organising the content with PHP and MySQL. Thanks to DayDreamGraphics for its beginner tutorials to start me off.
Up until 2004, Appassionato had been hosted as a subdomain, switching from one host to the other. However, catastrophe stroke in January 2004 when the host at the time deleted all the subdomains in one night without warning—that included Appassionato. I decided then that I wanted full control over my website domain and in February 2004, the domain wildx.org was bought and acted as the home of my design arena.
On 19 February 2005, a slightly more commercialised extension was set up at Snow-Willow.Com, containing custom design and coding services, web hosting, and my personal portfolio.
By this point, it seems like every major event happened in February each year. But no, nothing major was recorded to have happened in February 2006.
Though as we skip a year, I finished high school and tertiary studies begun in February 2007. It was at this moment in time that I made the "grave" decision to close Appassionato as a design site. I didn't want to completely sacrifice my design hobby as a trade-off for study so I made the promise that Appassionato would return as a personal site.
So during the mid-year break in June 2007 (Oh, my. The first non-February event!), I got my arse back on track with Appassionato and here it is now—the newly renovated personal site of Rilla's bits and pieces; an expressive zone, so to speak.
Past Designs
I have, in the past, reformatted my computer, moved things from one hard drive to another and inevitably lost many previous versions over the years. But some of the newer ones have survived...
