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Written By Claire It all began on an April afternoon almost two years ago, when I contacted Miss Marié Digby on her Myspace for permission to make a fansite about her. Of course, she said yes-being one of the sweetest people I've talked to, she contacted me back with a warm reply, and at once, I set to work on making my fansite. It all began on the very website I used two years earlier for mediocre template sites, so I was a bit nervous about making a full HTML website. I emailed a girl named Erin, who owned a style site called Urban Miley about two years ago, to help me make a layout. I started coding the website with iFrames (with Erin's help) and eventually, the site grew until we had enough content to start on the news. I used a news generator on Freewebs, and instantly started cranking out pieces of articles, songs and new blogs from Marié. For about a month, we were up and about; then, it happened.

I never had any reason to "close" Marié Digby Online, but it just happened. I just stopped working on the site, stopped adding news, and stopped changing layouts for a long time. I felt the need, since I was pretty poor at HTML back then, to stop working on it because of my skills. I compared my site to all of those other great websites, and just lost a lot of my reason and motivation to start the website in the first place. Plus, I had other problems; real life situations. I was pretty busy last summer and fall, so another reason was because I didn't have enough time for it.

So, in the middle of last December, after many failure websites, including the likes of a website called Dress Like Carrie, I turned to my very first "real" fansite-Marié Digby Online-the fansite I really should have opened and hosted in the first place, into a cleaner, better site. Obviously, since I had more skill than before, I set to work on cleaning it up, adding more pages, changing the layout, and doing little tiny things here and there, until it looked good enough for a host to accept me. I chose StarsZZ, the host of my other website, Twilight Style, because of their high quality services and free domain names.

I got everything set up within a few days, and after finishing up on the site, I put up a new layout, hired a co-web and immediately started posting news and pictures. Although the site was up and running and I was happy, I couldn't help but regret my decision to abandon the website months before when it could have lived up to it's potential months before and could have been a thriving fansite. But it was a thing of the past, and couldn't be reversed, so I decided to ignore my regret and enjoy working on the website (which has worked for a while).

Quite a while after re-opening, I set to work on a new layout, but then put the site on a temporary "revamp", hoping it would only last for a few days. I ended up abandoning Marié Fans again, for nearly two weeks, and I felt so badly. At the time, however, Marié had almost no news for me to post, so I left the site without reason. After choosing to clean up the site once again and put up a new layout, I finally settled on a layout from a friend months back, and opened the site back up in late January.

Now, after many revamps, hiatuses, and regretted decisions, I can't help but wonder if it was good to wait on re-opening the site, and build my website and work on my HTML skills. We are now one of the best known Marié Digby sites around, and now I've pushed aside the regret, and I've focused on the good parts of running Marié Fans; enjoying it.