Site Info

I started this site a long time ago, probably in about 1998, purely because I wanted to try to teach myself HTML. I still enjoy playing around with web design and trying new things, and that is why it's still up. It's an outlet, a place for me to put my stuff and talk about things I like.

When this site opened, it made its home at Geocities, which was a great free web server considering what they used to give you for no money, but I eventually felt I had outgrown my space there. I also felt that it was time for me to try to do some more "high-tech" things with my sites: I wanted to try out PHP and working with MySQL, and these things are not supported most free servers. I investigated the possibility of buying my own domain and paid hosting and decided, after much extremely confusing investigation of various hosts, to buy paid web hosting. I purchased this domain in January of 2004.

I became a little unhappy with my original host so, in January 2005, I moved over to DreamHost for a change. Their service is a bit cheaper and they have a few extra things that my other host didn't. So far I'm very pleased with them, and would recommend them without hesitation.

The Name

The name Nothing But Memory comes from a song by one of my favourite bands, the Manic Street Preachers, called "Everything Must Go."

I look to the future it makes me cry
But it seems too real to tell you why

Freed from the century
With nothing but memory, memory

And I just hope that you can forgive us
But everything must go

Credits

I made this site using PhotoShop, Firefox (with much use of the Web Developer Add-on), and EditPlus. It has been tested in IE and Firefox, and should look fine at most resolutions over 800x600, I would think. I've used the NL-ConvertToPHP and NL-PHPMail scripts from Codegrrl to make it work. The header image makes use of a texture from this site and the font Pea Jamie, which can be downloaded here.