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Hopeless Thunder, A History

To fully appreciate what you know now as HopelessThunder.org, one must understand that this fantastically built website at one time was, well, terrible. My venture into the world of web and graphic design started in the summer of 2007. One of the main reasons my first attempts at web design were so awful was the idiotic joke that founded my first website and my ignorance to the fact that flashy widgets and automatic music players were not cool. The aforementioned joke that began my fascination with the interweb was to say the least, dumb. While I’d rather not go into detail of what the joke was, I guess it’s a good thing I decided to take the joke to new levels with a website because simply, look where it has taken me today! The fact that there are people who may still have a lingering memory of my early web design career is reason enough for me to continue to develop and make Hopeless Thunder bigger and better, not to mention unrecognizable from what it once was.

Well, now that you’ve had a glimpse into the undeveloped childish mind of my early web design career, a glimpse into the prepubescent age of my sub-domain days, yes? The time periods to which I had a site builder website to the two sub-domains afterwards are a bit fuzzy to me, but, crucial to where I am today. With my first site builder, I began to learn to code HTML and made website layouts in Paint Shop Pro. And I like to think that I was becoming more respectable in my web designing during this time. Apparently, it was good enough that I was offered a sub-domain from a friend. This would be the equivalence to a mother bird pushing their fledglings off the nest because by accepting this offer, the only way my website were to survive was by fully committing to learn to code and staying away from those awful widgets. (I hope you enjoyed that analogy because I found it to be quite clever) My first sub-domain allowed me to grow as a person because it was there that I learned how to write in a way that didn’t consist of money signs and asterisks in ev3rd@y words but also helped me face disappointment and setbacks. I found myself having my website ripped away from me and I had to start new again.

My second sub-domain can be characteristic of a crazy hormonal teenager in that I was more careful in exposing myself and I was going through a “vintage hipster” phase with my layouts. The analogy can be taken even further in that this time around, I wasn’t as close with my host. It was like I was locked up in my “room” of a website blocking out my mother (my host) and blasting rock music through the walls. During this time, I honed down on what I wanted to do with my website and chose to focus it towards tutorials, specifically PhotoFiltre, and graphic resources and downloads. It was an experimental time where I was always changing concepts and vintage layouts but I like to think this was a good way for me to find my niche with what I was doing with my website.

Then when December of 2008 came along, as my analogy becomes full circle (note the seasonal aspect). Hopeless Thunder then became legal, in the sense that it became an adult of course. I like to think that in becoming a domain, HT fully developed and really grew up from its horrific beginning. Nowadays, I’m still experimenting with concepts and where I want to take this website but I think where it is now is good. My tutorials and graphic resources continue to stay but my interests have branched out. I’m taking the website into the music and entertainment industry through album reviews and interviews with artists and individuals. Now this isn’t any reason to worry if you think I’ll abandon my roots and take away the tutorials and whatnot. I’m just branching out and looking into other ventures that peak my interests. Hopeless Thunder will always be full of random side projects as long as I continue to be full of random thoughts and ideas. Well, there you have it, my website history. It’s funny what 739 words can do to your perspective isn’t it?

Thanks for reading,

Nancy Hoang

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