Wow, so it’s amazing to finally be back on Archmaille.com

Maybe I should just fill you in on a little history first.  Archmaille.com is and was the oldest and first site that I ever created!  Lets face it though… Archmaille.com sucked back then.  It was “designed” in a crappy text editor that used divisions and pixel placement of those divisions to place images, text boxes, etc.  It looked very basic and childish to start with, and if you used any different screen resolutions you may as well forget it.  The original intent was to sell my sterling silver jewelry on here… but let’s be honest it wasn’t going to happen with that website and a few PayPal buttons for orders.

Some time in 2005 I started using a slightly better system with tables, some basic images, and some copied CSS for the navigation links (that didn’t really fit very well might I add).  The look of the site was only slightly improving, but my knowledge was growing fast.

By 2006 (Actually some time between June 4th and 8th 2005) the site had been completely reworked thanks to some help I found on a webmasters forum, a guy made a simple banner, and helped me with some template/color issues.

The site stayed basically the same for quite a while since it was banned from Google for the use of “scraper” pages… which were my form of payment for using the site.  Since I wasn’t hosting the site, and didn’t own the domain Jordan put the pages up to help subsidize the cost of it.  He made plenty of money from it and eventually the ban was lifted though I never got PR back or really got indexed very well.  So I took the site to a new place ArchmailleDesigns.com and put a 301 redirect to that from all Archmaille.com pages.  Now that I’ve transfered all domains to my new server, Archmaille.com has sort of been in no-mans land for a while… but finally transfering it as well I’ve noticed that with the latest PR update it also has a PR4 from the countless hours of link building done for the site… so I’ve decided not to put the 301’s back in place but instead use this as my “gaming” blog.

I’ve been gaming pretty much most of my life and known in game as Archmaille for the last 4 years.  It’s only fair that I use this domain for my gaming stuff.