Dino's Ultima Page was my first website,
dedicated to the series of 'Ultima' RPGs spanning over 20 years. The site had
very humble origins, having started on
27th
July 2002 simply as a host for a
fanfiction, then evolved more ambitiously into one of the leading Ultima news
and information sites. Being my first site, it was my testing ground for HTML
and other web languages, and as you can see from the screenshots, it evolved
quite a bit over the years.
Months after Dino's Ultima Page first appeared on the web, I was making a new
website with a totally new design. This was meant to be an educational website
(in fact the name, Edunity, means 'Educational Community')
that was supposed to provide information for both coding and school subjects.
However, I never really had time to build this website. It was not a waste of
time, however, as its design was tweaked into what Dino's Ultima Page uses
today.
About the time I scrapped Edunity, I had discovered PHP, which allowed me much
greater control over things like navigation. This drove me to write a series of
scripts, the biggest being the forum script called 'D-iscussion Board'. When
I wrote this script, I made a site called D-Scripts to host it,
and kept adding scripts and tutorials to this new site. Eventually it became too
troublesome to update D-Scripts, though, and I gave up on it.
In March 2003, I was about to finish school and decided to make a website dedicated
to my school friends since everyone would eventually go their separate ways. On
23rd
March 2003 I launched The Olde Edwardian,
which hosts some memories of our school days, and has a forum so that we can keep up
with each other. Since I am no longer at St. Edward's College, I am no longer
updating the site.
I created a new site called Code-X as a solution to the problem
D-Scripts had - that of being too complex to properly keep up to date. This
site experimented with things like default fonts and horizontal navigation that
I had not dared to try before. The design, at least in my opinion, looked much
nicer than that of any site I had made before. However, I made it so detailed
and so complicated that in the end it became even more exasperating than D-Scripts
to keep up to date. It had defeated its own purpose, and I gave up on it as well.
I don't really remember what made me create my personal website,
Daniel D'Agostino on the web. Perhaps it
was the fact that I had, at one point, three websites each with the same
information about me, so it would have been better to centralise the information
in its own website. Whatever the case, this became a fourth site on my network,
but eventually it grew and became the main network site.
In June 2005, a group of old school friends got together and made an
action/comedy film called "The Maltese Job". In September 2005 they offered
me a part in their next film, which is now called "Blood Money". Apart from
acting in this film, I also helped out by creating a website for the group and
taking behind-the-scene photos. The
filming website
was launched on the 27th, and has information about the films and the people
involved.
On 6th July 2006 I decided to make a third attempt at a computer-related website, after the failures with D-Scripts and Code-X. I named this new website Gigi's Computer Corner, which may be a silly name, but has the same acronym as the popular GNU Compiler Collection. Also, it's the first time I use my University nickname online.
I have also made other websites for friends of mine. Because I do not wish to claim credit for them, I will not mention them here.
© Daniel D'Agostino 2004-2007
