I mentioned earlier that “The Retrovert” was the first commercial site I hosted on a domain of my own. This came about in early 2003, when I was between jobs, as we say, and had some time on my hands.

I was pleased with the way “Celtic Art & Retro-Futuristic Design” was working out for me - if you missed it, that was my first commercial shop on the web, where I sell two kinds of art that I love making - and it was natural enough to think about what else I might do. That turned out to be the Retrovert.

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Earlier I described how I built my personal web site and used it as a guinea pig for both site design and search engine optimization – then left it alone for a few years without realizing just how successful it’d become.

But in 2002, when I did notice how much traffic I was getting, I started to wonder if any of those visitors would like to own a piece of my work.

Now in those days I was a pixel-pushing laborer in the Computer Game Mines. Okay, nominally I was a manager, but you get the idea. The game business is notorious for requiring long hours from its serfs and for that reason I wasn’t doing as much of my own work as I’d have liked; but I was doing some, and I was especially interested in large, ambitious pieces in resolutions that were suitable for print – and at the heart of that, what I really wanted to do was to offer archival quality prints for sale.

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My personal web site was, as you’d expect, my first. In its first few years it went through substantial changes – after all, I was learning how to design sites at the time – but around 1999 it settled down and since then I’ve mainly made only visual changes to it. That’s partly because I’d accumulated so many inbound links that I don’t want to make huge changes there any more. Why did I get all those links? Well, because I was giving things away for free. I still do. It’s absurdly easy to give things away, and people like it. And I was used to doing it.

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