Art by friend 'Banana'
Hi! My name is Sian, but a long time ago I used to go by the online-alias Aqua. I'm from the North of England, near Manchester in the UK. I first got interested in websites in 2007, when I was 12 after discovering Piczo, a website building platform popular with teenagers. From there, I started my own string of personal websites: I was really into anime and games and through Piczo I met a good group of friends who also had websites. I learnt HTML and CSS over the period of time I was involved with these friends and outgrew Piczo until I finally had my own fully coded website hosted and uploaded through an FTP server. Ultimately my hobby fizzled out in around 2012 when I got really into Tumblr. But ever since that time, I've felt a sort of empty hole left over from my time with my website. It holds a dear place in my heart, for a myriad of reasons (some too personal to share here). On Neocities, I am glad to finally have this important part of my life archived and easily accessible for others who are now finding the same enjoyment in web-design as I once did.