About ThisLoveStory.Com
Created for recommending the best Draco/Hermione fanfiction on the web, ThisLoveStory.com was
purchased on January 20, 2006 and opened on February 14, 2006. The site was originally known as
Tainted and was hosted at a domain I bought with a friend, Icy-Perfection.Net (do you
smell a certain DM in that domain name? ;D), which no longer exists; a few months later, I moved
it to my other domain, Snogadelic.Net, where it was hosted for about a year.
This Love Story was born when I decided to close my blog on Snogadelic.Net,
and it is essentially the exact same site as Tainted, only
"new and improved." The header of first layout of the site was considerably better than any other
one I had previously designed for Tainted, and the site itself also had much cleaner coding.
Although, the same cannot be said about the current version of this site, as my Photoshop skills have significantly
deteriorated due to my lack of attentions on design and the web. I had to completely
do over the site again because I forgot the password to the program I used to update the list of fanfiction.
Many fanfics that I recc'ed were lost, and some were cut because of prior questionable judgement on
my part or simply because they no longer exist at their addresses. This time around, there will
(hopefully) be more frequent updates, and I won't forget my username and password! (:
As for the name, This Love Story was an epiphany that came to me after countless hours of
thesaurus.com and dictionary.com. I settled on thislovestory.com because among those I
asked, it was the favorite. It was also the only decent one; the rest of the names I had thought
of or looked up really were really, really bad. And corny. And cliché. Stuff like, Cryptic Love.
I know, Yuck.
Credits
- Adobe Photoshop CS 2
- CuteFTP Pro
- Notepad (for coding)
- SimpleDir 3.2
- Hybrid-Genesis.Net – Brushes
- somesdaffair – Draco/Hermione photo manips (for Version 01)
- eucalyptus – Draco/Hermione photo manips (for Version 01)
- dracohermione.org – Pictures I used for the current layout
