This weekend, I shut down my historic domain freylia.net.
I first opened this website in August 2003, during an internship at the European Court of Auditors in Luxembourg. I was making progress with HTML/CSS and I had grown tired of the limited confines of Geocities-hosted pages… The site started as a System Shock and Deus Ex fan site; it also exposed many elements of what is now The Uncertain War, the main draft of which (currently undergoing heavy rewrites) I wrote during the 2006 or 2007 edition of NaNoWriMo.
I also hosted several sub-sites for a while, ranging from walkthroughs to fan projects, some of which I participated in. From gaming, it evolved into a file repository, then a portfolio of services, from Translations, to Photography, to Desktop Publishing.
It went through many lives, but even when it was occasionally on hold, there was always a plan to bring it back. This is the first time since 2003 that I take it down indefinitely. My focus, as far as websites are concerned, is now firmly on presenting and promoting my books. This is not the only change I have in mind, as this is part of the process I alluded to in my last post; But this is the first, and its symbolic significance to me is pretty deep.
The simplest thing is, freylia.net was created when I was a different person, and as such it belonged in the past. It is time to close this door now, and look towards the future.