Back to School. Again.

Note: Republished and removed from Accidental Inspiration blog.

For one of my classes, Web Design II, we are required to set up a website so we are able to post all of our work for review/testing/etc. Since I was sort of wanting to abandon my old host anyway, I decided to look around a little.

Previously I used Hosting4Students. This was at the suggestion of a past teacher in another one of my classes. It did it's job for the time being, and for now I am going to leave the site in progress (or should I say also abandoned...) that I created for that class: christieann.com. Someday I may come back to it, but for now I just don't even want to mess with it.

Back to hosts... I still have quite a bit to learn about the different options of hosting services, but some of the requirements for the class were that it could handle PHP and MySQL. Another reason I could justify purchasing another host! :)

So I poked around a little bit, but word of mouth is always the best seller for me. Our instructor mentioned that he uses ICDSoft.com. Checked it out -- affordable and seems very universal. PHP and MySQL? Check! And purchased.

I could have just transferred over the domain I guess, but that seemed like too much work for the moment. Instead I started poking around for the domains available... Since this is going to be a primarily work-based site, I thought I would go in that direction. (christieann.com was chosen with the idea that I would later change it to a personal site once I got a work one established.)

First idea was initials combined with some sort of graphic-y reference. After a couple different tries -- cjdesign.com, cjgraphics.com, etc. -- I settled on cjdesignstudio.com. For now that will work. I'm guessing once I'm married (and that's still up in the air... no date set yet) I might want to change that, but for now I'm still clinging to the maiden moniker.

Done and done. Now just to start getting stuff up so I have something to show...