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What is Aa-Pahoehoe? |
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Chances are you probably have no idea what the name
of this website means. Well, actually neither do I. Just kidding
(hehe). Actually, aa-pahoehoe really means absolutely nothing.
Aa and pahoehoe are themselves words, however. I first came upon
these splendid words in my 10th grade earth science class. Now,
this class had a reputation for being for the "not-so-bright"
students, but I was really interested in the topic, so I wanted
to take it. And boy am I glad I did. Otherwise, this site would
probably have had some completely boring name, as I am usually
not very good with creative titles. Anyway, so in class we started
learning about volcanoes (hence the logo), and when we came to
learning about the different kinds of lava, these two magnificent
words came into my life. Aa (ä´ä´) lava has a sharp, jagged
surface, and apparently got its name because it hurt to walk on
and people would shout "ah ah!" in pain. Pahoehoe (pä ho´e
ho´e) lava,
however, has a smooth, ropy surface. So it's really as simple
as that. As soon as I heard these words I thought they were the
funniest thing and I've been using them ever since.
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So that covers the origin of the name of this site, but what about the origin of the site itself? Well, I first learned about making web pages and HTML and all that fun stuff back in high school, where I was chosen along with another student to help create our school's website. At the time I knew next to nothing about this, but I learned a lot those two years. Sometime then I started my own site on Geocities which has evolved into what you see today. Back in April 2002, I decided to take the next step for my site and pay to have my own domain name, more upload space, etc. I then
started using Macromedia Dreamweaver to create my pages rather than the pathetic program Geocities provides. Then in the first semester of my second year of college (Fall 2002) I took an Internet class. This was one of my favorite classes I've ever taken. A lot of the stuff we learned I had already known, but there was also plenty that I did learn. Macromedia Flash and Fireworks along with Cascading Style Scripts were probably my favorites. My final project for the class was a Simon game that I programmed in Flash, which you can play here. I also got a lot
of practice writing code in HTML and I learned that it is much easier to control what your web pages look like if you write the code yourself rather than let a program generate it for you. So now I write the HTML code for all the pages I make myself and just use Dreamweaver as a tool to do so. Still to this day, every time I sit down to make a new page I seem to learn something new, which I think is one of the reasons why I enjoy doing this so much. |
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