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Welcome to Avondale KLR! This site is owned and maintained by Kelsey. It all began in 2005. Feel free to browse around at the great content this site has to offer. I hope you enjoy your stay here at my website. Thank you for stopping by!
Kelsey
My name is Kelsey. I am 14 years old and currently in the 9th grade. I'm from the South, but I don't sound like it. I love anything involved with computers and technology. Some hobbies I enjoy are filming, interior designing, photography, and learning about outer space and the weather. I enjoy helping out with those who have special needs. Intrigued?
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When I was about 7 years old, my grandfather asked me if I wanted my own page on his website. I agreed, even though I was utterly clueless on what I was to do with it. I started learning some very basic things by the age of 8. He helped me post a small blog every week or so, and I kept it updated until March 2005, when I was a month away from being 10 years old. On that last year I worked on my blog, I started getting hooked on sites like Polly Pocket and Barbie. I printed out unnecessary things from the site, like print out dolls and posters. I'll admit, I did waste an awful lot of paper... and I'm a freakin' environmentalist! But soon I slowed down with that, come around the beginning of 5th grade.
My friend Marissa and I used to play Neopets a lot, and she got into learning HTML through Neopets. She used to talk about it all the time, trying to explain how to make tables and things. I got a bit annoyed, I must say. But soon after I did more exploring into the graphic designing world, I decided to start a fun site where I added cute graphics I'd find from other sites.
I soon discovered Matmice, a kid-friendly web host. I registered on December 28th, 2005. It was very basic and easy to use. For months I'd just blog, add random graphics to the page, and talk to other kids on Matmice. But come Spring Break, on April 14th, 2006, I was working on my site in the evening. Sometimes Matmice had problems where it deleted just about everything on the site. That, unfortunately, happened to me.
I was devastated, I must say. So as I tried to go back and get everything fixed, my tries failed. :( I was about to give up and forget about it, but then I thought, "why don't I create a graphics site of my own?" So, there it began. I became a graphic designer. In the beginning, I really did suck at it. I only knew I had Paint on my computer. I did make some suckish graphics... but I improved over time. I started out with websets, no layouts yet. They didn't coordinate with my background-- for I had kitty websets with a Hilary Duff background. Didn't match so much! I looked more into how other popular graphics sites made their graphics. I noticed they used Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, and Animation Shop. I realized soon after that, that I had Paint Shop Pro 7, 8, and 9! I was excited. I didn't have many brushes, so I learned how to download them. I later installed Animation Shop 3, and had a friend teach me how to use it. I found doll maker sites, and sites that provided good celebrity photos, and downloaded decorative fonts. I was getting off to a great start.
Come July 2006, while I was on vacation, I signed up on Freewebs, now known as Webs. I had no idea how to use it, since Matmice was more of a page builder site, where you simply click a button to center your text, and things like that. Over the next few months, I learned how to code I-Frame layouts, code images, code links, and other HTML-related things. I slowly worked my way up to having a good knowledge of HTML. I stopped using I-frames by June 2007, because I discovered how easy my friend's layout coding was, in which she used often. I asked if she would mind if I used it myself, and she let me. So I started making layouts similar to hers, and tweaked the CSS to make it more decorative over time.
Until March 4th, 2009, I was a Freewebs site girl, who came to have a high expertise in the graphics/web design world (although I still have a lot to learn). I asked my grandfather if I could by a domain from Go Daddy, a world famous domain host site. I signed up as "http://avondaleklr.org". That is where I am today, using DIV layouts on my own domain! I am excited to have come this far, and I hope I can continue working in the web designing world and evolve this hobby of mine into something more!
Why KLR?
I sort of had a tough time choosing a name, since the blog I started with on my grandpa's website was "Kelsey's Korner". I didn't think that was very mature; it was cute, though. So I thought:
Starlight MKS used her initials in the site name, so why not use yours? I decided on KLR. My initials stand for Kelsey Leann... but the R is my last name, so I will not give that out. I thought I needed some sort of creative word to put before it. I didn't have any idea, so I went with my hometown's name: Avondale. Ta da! Avondale KLR became my site's website name. Sure, I'd love one of those cute names like Dollie Paradise, Scribbleville, or Kiss the Stars, but I am happy with the name I have, because it is original, and has a meaning. A meaning, that, well, means a lot to me.
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