My website is named after Cepheus (pictured right), the constellation in the Northern Sky. It's named after a king of Ancient Ethiopia in Greek Mythology. You can read more about it here.

Over the years I've owned lots of blogs/websites, as well as animal crossing fansites when I was a pre-teen & a doctor who fansite a bit later on. I was first introduced to web building (and the 'design your profile' type of social media) through Piczo.com. After years of fun and thousands of accounts, I graduated from the animal crossing page community and made my first freewebs site. I'd played with HTML before but this was the first time I'd owned a html-only site. It was understandably awful and I was still a bit young to understand how to use paint shop pro well. Eventually I got the hang of CSS (now my favourite aspect of coding) and Photoshop and went on to own various hosted domains/subdomains (using wordpress and fanupdate etc). At 15 I got bored of owning a website (plus the community had died off and gone to social media like tumblr/twitter/livejournal) and closed my last domain.

Eventually, after owning a string of short-lived personal blogs during my student years, I discovered neocities. It took me a while to actually build something because all I saw were programmers and game-builders, or very geocities/angelfire esque sites. That's not to say I don't adore these sites and the people who make them - I do and often spend hours looking through them. However, eventually I started to see sites blending the geocities styles with the tumblr/wordpress blog styles of the late 00s/early 10s. This was my formative era so I had no choice but to make a site! Plus, I find building a site sans CMS is much more fun.

Thus, cepheus.neocities.org (now .xyz) was born (as pictured). What began as a distraction from writing my dissertation has become my longest-standing website and the creative project I am most proud of. Now 4 years (!) old, cepheus is filled with my writing, shrines, favourite links, digital artwork, favourite nostalgic graphics & my attempts at improving my coding. (I still haven't learned javascript though lol). I love visiting all of the different sites of neocities and am very happy that there's such a strong community. I hope it continues to grow.