About
The Webmistress
Name: Yui (Yuewei)
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Birthdate: April 25, 1987
Email: yui@lastsong.net
AIM: silentfirefly
MSN: yiris99@hotmail.com
Webdesign History: I started my webdesigning career at the age of 12 with a shabby little tribute to Sailorsaturn of Sailormoon, my favorite character at the time. I initially used MS Paint for the litting graphic editing that I could muster at the time. It wasn’t until I was about 14 that I first began experimenting first with Paint Shop Pro, then with Adobe Photoshop. At 15, I bought my first domain name: KuroiTenshi.net, which I kept for about 2 years. At that point, I began to think that the name was a bit too long and hard to remember and so, purchased my current domain of LastSong.net. I now use Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for graphics editing and Notepad++ for coding.
Style and Philosophy: My motto has long been that a good designer can make a kick-ass graphic from any image she’s given, or from no base picture at all. Of course, I don’t pretend to have achieved that level of skill ^^; but it’s something I strive for. Perhaps owing to the type of images I tend to choose for my graphics, most of my work has a sort of elegant, but dark and grungy aura. I often try to convey a sort of exquisite chaos, a graceful maddness that is at once beautiful and grotesque. Of course, I try to branch out from my usual style once in a while as well.
The Domain
I really don’t have much of a story for the selection of LastSong.net as a domain name. At the time, it was more or less simply a reference to The Last Song by X Japan. I felt that it conveyed a sort of melancholy and darkness that matches my design sense. Currently, LastSong.net is registered with Domains4You.com and happily hosted with HostGator.
The Site
LastSong.net has, for many years, served as a collective and hosting domain. As I lost interest in most of the many sites I originally created, I no longer saw the point at keeping the collective open. Nonetheless, I had grown attached to my domain name, and wanted to keep it. In June of 2006, I finally decided to turn it into a blog, as it is now.
