Epiphany has just opened, so there's not much to say yet! I will talk a little about my past sites/pc involvement though.

I first bought petz waayy back in the second or third grade at my school's book fair. I was hooked immediately! I still use that same copy of Petz 5, and I've tried other versions but Petz 5 will always be my favorite.

By the fourth or fifth grade I had discovered the pc. This is the first site I ever visited. I remember trying to adopt from it, not yet understanding the concept of inactive sites. To me, if a site was online it was active, and I was highly disapointed when my adoption never came! I wanted my own site too. I wish I still had those first versions of my sites to show you, but I can tell you they were pretty bad! I was only 9 or 10 at the time, and my HTML skills weren't the best. I learned almost everything I know from a site called Lissa Explains it All.

I can't remember if any of my early attempts ever made it online or not. I don't think they did, but I had plenty of webs accounts over the years from various abandoned projects. I was never into petz enough to stay interested long enough to finish a site, so I had many half-finished projects over the years! The first name I can remember having was Somthin' Funny, and Epiphany's first layout is named after it. It seemed fitting to give my first successful attempt at a site the name that I started with:) Some other names I've had over the years were Maddilyn's Munchkins {I used to go by Maddilyn in the pc}, and Starry Night K&C. I'm sure there were more but they were all so long ago I can't remember them. There was a pretty long gap during most of middle school when I wasn't into petz, and all my stuff from elementary school got lost.

During my sophmore year of high school {2013} I started getting into petz again. That's when I started on Maddilyn's Munchkins. I had a Tumblr by that name too, so even though the site never made it online I still had somewhat of an online presence in the pc. I got sick of that name pretty fast though and changed it too Starry Night K&C, though I can't remember if I ever changed the Tumblr. Pretty much all of this happened during christmas break, and once school started I got busy and lost interest. I ended up deleting the Tumblr.

Here's what Maddilyn's Munchkins/Starry Night K&C looked like. I had tried to do an inline frame layout at first, and couldn't get the frame to get in the right position (I still wasn't great at HTML). So I gave up and did regular frames. I also wasn't very creative with fonts or backgrounds {the background is from the Petz 5 web fun pack}.

Now fast forward to the middle of my junior year. I'm in an early college program now, and have some more time on my hands as I don't have as many classes. I started getting into petz again when I decided to look through my giant folder of favorited petz sites to see if any were still alive, and surprisingly, the pc was still alive and fairly active! Once I started going through those sites, I got bitten by the "petz bug" so to speak. I opened up my game which had sat for a year unused on my computer and once I started playing I knew I had to come back. And thus, Epiphany was born!

I have this wall in my room that's covered with index cards, and they all have interesting word definitions on them, I'm a bit of a word nerd:) When I was trying to come up with names I looked through all the words on my wall, and epiphany stuck out to me. I was trying to find something that was easy to say/spell, and the word epiphany fits, because realizing that I was never going to completely leave the pc was something of an epiphany for me.

Obviously I got wayy better at coding when making Epiphany. When designing it I looked at other petz sites for ideas. Then it occured to me to look at the source code of those sites to see how they did it, and that's how I learned the HTML to make Epiphany. I did a lot of Google searches as well. In the past I'd relied mostly on the one site, which is a bit out of date by now, especially design-wise. So thank you to the various active petz sites, I think Moonflower Petz and Litters Factory especially were the two I looked at the most.

Since there's only one layout so far, there's no past layouts to show, but this is where I'd put them if there were:)