What happened to the fun?

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What happen to the fun of making websites? I now have no or very little fun creating them. I can remember back in the late 90’s when my friends were all making their own websites on Angelfire and Homestead and I wanted one too. I remember even before our family got a computer, sitting in the boat and drawing up designs for different pages I would make on my website like a page for pokemon, jet skiing, star wars, and just random fun interesting things I like.

My friend Andrew made a pretty nice for the time Rocky page for his website on Homestead.com. I can remember being jealous of him for it while I was working with angelfire, having troubles deciding what background color and font color to use while he made an awesome page really easy. Scott made a website and talked about all kinds of different stuff too, one with a pokemon page or something like that, and he said he even saw his site listed in a pokemon or video game magazine. That wouldn’t be too surprising at the time, considering that there were alot less pages and websites on the internet those days.

It’s not that way anymore. Now I view websites just as ways to make money, there’s no heart in it. I’m also afraid to make content because I fear that I won’t get the best seo optimization unless I put it under a specific domain name title and talk only about that. What I mean is, is that I have trouble writing about all kinds of different things under one domain name because if I were to seperate the topic into it’s own domain name then I might get better SURP results. This results in very little website size, and low quality, something no one would want to visit more than once. :/

What if I were to just say fuck it and put it all under one domain? What if I were to do like I was when I was younger and just not worry about it and throw everything onto one?

That’s kind of what I’m doing with this site, although I am still holding back, afraid that the content could be put for much better use for it’s own site rather than sitting in a domain with a name entitled “A Japanese and Chinese Major”.

It’s amazing to think back to the earlier days of my website making adventures and realize that I just wanted to do it for fun. That I wanted to let other people know my interest and get them interested and help them along their way with it.

The internet has become saturated. Thousands of websites are created everyday and millions of pages created. Because of this, it gets harder for webmasters to get people to view their websites and see their hard work and content. I think this is one of the major reasons I have stopped interest in making websites too, it’s that only a handful of people will see what takes you forever to make.