Well, as anyone else, I was scrolling the web for pokemon sprites (I was in to that back then) and came across http://pokemonelite2000.com. I was amazed by the graphics on the sprite resources pages, and started out doing (very) basic recolors of various sprites. I grew talented at spriting with electric types, and started on on pikachu. I have tons of pikachu sprites and wanted a place to put them, so I found a website called http://freewebs.com and started a photo gallery of my sprites. I always noticed the cool layouts they had.
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Later, I was on google and found a site called "Lugia's Island" (which now is dead) and loved the different pages and layouts that they had on the site. I checked out the various pages of the site, and stumbled across the "Layouts" page. I though it was amazing how Silverwing (the webmistress) had created such advanced layouts, and was giving them away... So I took the layout and copied it to my computer. Now back then I didn't have a clue what html, or and coding was, so I didn't know how to use it.
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I was on a affiliate of Lugia's Island, when I came across a website called "Eevee's HQ" Now it was V.1 back then, and the site was fairly new, but I fell in love with the website. I spend days on Eevee's HQ, just wondering around the site...
I came back a year later, (which I was more computer-knowledgeable) and say V.3, and man! It had changed! Eevee-Chan had added a fansite (which is what it was before), a community, which held the forums, oekaki, etc. Then I meet Eevee-chan. (If you are reading this then oh well) She was so talented, and inspired me to create my own website. She has helped me out time to time, but I have really succeeded because of her.
...(Time passes)

Well, here I am today, a webmaster of a successful website that gets over 100 unique hits per day! I know this may be a little short (for 3 years) but this experience has changed my life for good! (Just a message to all those webmasters/webmistress)...
-PikaPower64 (But I am still alive XD)