The Website
Flamora was opened on July 19th, 2009 and currently serves as the personal blog and portfolio of me, Gabi. The domain name was purchased from GoDaddy and the site is hosted on a dedicated server from Ultra Hosting.
Purpose
This site was created to showcase a side of myself and my designs that I can no longer bring out on Atomic Affliction. It's been a long time since I was able to focus my blogs on more personal things or create complex, time consuming designs. The demand to update every day to keep visitors coming has made it impossible for me to spend two days working on a vector for a layout or a large batch of icons. With this site, I now have a reason to do those things again.
The Name
In the past I've resorted to flipping through a dictionary and plopping my finger in a random place in hopes of finding something interesting. This time around I actually tried to pull the name from something I like, and the first thing that came to mind was Harry Potter. Even though I've read the books multiple times, I couldn't think of anything off the top of my head that would serve as a good site name. I decided to take a gander at the old encyclopedia at MuggleNet, and that's where I came across "Flamora." It sounded pretty and was actually available, so I pounced on it. I've watched all the movies and reread four of the books since purchasing the domain and have yet to actually come across the spell. I was probably bamboozled, but at least I tried to make it mean something this time.
The Owner
As you probably already know, my name is Gabi. I currently call a little suburb in the Midwest of the United States my home. It's definately not a bustling ball of excitement here, but I manage.
I'll finish writing this later...