violetsteel.com has gone through various changes over the years…<\/p>\n
My first website was born on Tuesday 25th July 2000. It was hosted at my work place with the url violetsteel.hillcrest.co.za. It stayed there until I moved to England in 2000, where working on it became difficult, and Justin my old boss and friend didn’t have the time to give me the support I needed. He suggested I moved to www.f2s.com, which at the time was a free web host, so then it became www.violetsteel.f2s.com. When they terminated their free service in February 2002, I decided it was time I get serious about my site and pay for a service so I could expect it to work, and get support when I needed it. A year later my domain expired because 2mhost had some problem renewing it. So I was forced to renew it myself and re-register with 2mhost too. I toyed with the idea of abandoning violetsteel.com at this stage and starting from scratch. The only domain that I really felt partial to was digitaldeliquent.com but it already existed, so i decided to stick with violetsteel.com as it was already fairly well established and held a part of my identity. violetsteel.com came back into online existence on 13 July 2003. where it grew into something I was quite proud and underwent a variety of different layouts with the same content. When I moved back to the UK in 2006 I didn’t have time to maintain my site as it was so decided to take it down. For a long time it just had a holding page, but in Nov 2009 I decided to recreate it as a blog. I’m very happy with where my site it at the moment and expect it to continue on it current path for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n
\nI believe it was Akasha from zanet (irc) that referred me to 2mhost<\/a>, and I signed up with them and registered my domain www.violetsteel.com on 7th May 2002.<\/p>\n
\nClick here to see the layout history.<\/a><\/p>\n