As a New Years Resolution, I've decided that I'm definitely moving off Xanga. I'm currently at the beginning of my winter break, and I wanted to get my new site up and running by Christmas, but seeing as I have so much to do, I don't think I can finish all of that in such little time. So by new years, I'll have a new site up and running. :]

I'm moving off xanga for a couple reasons.

1. I just don't feel at home on Xanga anymore. Xanga is such a crowded place, and I use to be one of the most active web designers around, but for the past year, I haven't been able to find anytime to even sign on Xanga. Now that I'm in high school, one of the best private schools around here, I'm stuck doing homework til 2 in the morning! I don't even have a social life anymore. [lol]

2. I know this is a little weird, but next semester, which is when I come back from break, I have computer classes, and all schools block xanga, myspace, etc. Having xanga as a web host feels..unprofessional. I'm proud of my work, but I'm not as proud of my web host only because it's so unprofessional, it's blocked in every school's computer system. Xanga has been a great web host for me in the last 4 years, but I think I need to move on to something better.

3. Since I dont have time to do much on my site anymore, another reason why I'm moving off is because I feel like I need a more independent web host. Only reason why I used xanga as a web host in the first place was because I liked taking request from people, but requests have been closed for exactly a year now.. literally. At this time last year, I went on a hiatus because I went n a family break to Vietnam. And when I got back, my status dropped tremendously. When I came back, I opened request. Before I went on break, I use to get about 5-8 request a day. But when I came back from break, I only had 3-5 request a week. So every since then I just kept request closed. 

I just dont have time anymore to take request so I see no point in staying on Xanga. My life in the past year has changed a lot from when the first 2 years I started on Xanga. My parents gave me more freedom this year so I took advantage of it and went out with friends. And on August 23, 2006, I met the love of my life and I've been spending most of my free time with him.

I'm always busy. Either with school or with friends. There's never a time where I'm bored or just have nothing to do. I could always study, call my boyfriend, and if he's busy and I'm too tired studying, that's when I open up photoshop and design some things at the top of my head. And if I'm ever not in the mood for that, I could just sign on Maplestory and fool around a bit. There's always something for me to do. But my boyfriend and my studies always come first. I love web designing. It's been my passion for years and I'm not gonna give it up. But my goal in life is to be a Vet because I absolutely adore animals. :]

Yes I'm moving off xanga, but it's gonna take a while because it's gonna take a lot of work because im working from complete scratch. Plus I needa understand PHP and how to work with MySQL. Using xanga as a web host is using the easy way out to impress someone. In the past week I've been working and messing around with my new web host, studying and understanding how things work, and I realized it's a lot harder then how it looks. I thought it'd be quite simple like xanga, but it's a bit complicated. I have a lot to learn. The thing with xanga is, on every page the layout is the same. All you have to do is edit what xanga gave you, the look and feel. But on a web host, if you dont know how to work with PHP, you're gonna have to change every single page's layout one by one. You really are working from complete scratch when using a real web host. It's overwhelming, yet exciting. I'm looking forward to working with a new web host. Using xanga as a web host isnt impressive. Especially compared to using a real web host and working from complete scratch. but I do admit, I've had a great time working on Xanga, and everything I know about web designing, html codes, and graphics were from the people of xanga. The person that inspires me most on xanga is Celestial Abyss. Her work is absolutely amazing and people can't appreciate it. :[ I say good luck to her and her works in the future. :D

EDIT-- 12/30/07

Change of Plans.

Ahhhhhh. I AM moving off of xanga, but It's gonna take way more time then I thought.. I'm not sure when I'll get it up and ready, but I'll try to get it done sometime in Jan.

--Mya//H3av3nxAng3l