well a few years ago, about 4-5 i started a xanga and messed around with the codes and stuff. eventually i found myself to like doing that, so me & a friend of mine opened a site.. which was a flop cause we had no idea what we were doing and nobody came. plus the name was lame. ^_^ then.. i opened a site about 2 years ago called smalltownproductions it got pretty decent support, but the name was blah, i switched to a name but it was lame then i opened portroyalx3. i stayed there and had over 300 subscribers which is pretty awesome. In the summer of 2007 emma from dreamlandx3, linzie from xx_candylicious & myself started a site called fatalxfetish (which you may see on some of the layouts as a credit, i have however changed the links to my current site) I just recently, as of june opened sarcasticserenity because i got sick of portroyalx3 which i had based off of pirates of the caribbean. I will be going to school for web design and (crosses fingers) that will help me improve as well ^_^ which will also lead me to make a domain someday, until then you can find me at createblog, myspace & xanga.
oh, and i used to just use paint, arcsoft photoeditor (whcih came on the computer & is old!) & microsoft word for my layouts. i now use paint, pixie, & photoshop. :) and still the others as well.