About WitchyTree Productions

In late 1999, I had an idea. Macromedia Flash was becoming the big thing and I wanted to try it and at the same time, my then boyfriend was experimenting with it. While I was completely unable to wrap my mind around it (I'm not all that good with graphical programs), he was able to. I explained to him that I wanted a flash movie of my 'Witchy Tree'. A witch is flying along on her broom, casting a spell at the same time. Distracted, she crashed into a tree and the spell goes wrong, making her combine with the tree - hence 'WitchyTree'.

At the time I was still hosting on GeoCities. They'd just been bought by Yahoo! and no one had any idea how much their service would suffer. Once they removed the priviledges for paying members (we paid to have those ads removed), I tried various free places. Prohosting. Brinkster. All came down to UGH.

Eventually, I said 'That's it!' and through an aquaintance I found a decent hosting place that wasn't costing me a lot of money. Another wonderful friend had started a business so I bought a domain name through him. And WitchyTree Productions was now more than a name - it was a domain!

After a year and a half, I decided my host sucked. They're good if you want cheap space with php access, and their customer service is good. But their CC transactions weren't secure and someone else on my server was spamming people so half of my email was bounced as having come as a spammer. Yech! But once again, the friend who had gotten my name registered provided me with a decent hosting package. His site's at www.doreo.com. Everyone thank him - and check out the site.

Over the last two years or so, I've struggled - deciding to do with my space has been difficult. It was a personal site. It was a guild site for a game. It was a site with articles on it. It was a diary/journal site. And now, it is a site for the books I am working on, in the land of Fowlkeep. Which is why www.fowlkeep.com points to www.witchytree.com - in case you were wondering what WitchyTree Productions was.

Hopefully, I'll do better with this one.