Talk:Lissa Explains it All
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[edit] Vote for Deletion
This article survived a Vote for Deletion. The discussion can be found here. -Splash 02:17, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
It may have survived deletion, and thats fine, but it's certainly POV. 131.210.106.122capiCrimm
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This article was nominated for deletion on 26 January 2006. The result of the discussion was no consensus. An archived record of this discussion can be found here. |
fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 08:00, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] removed section
most of this was written like an advertisement and removed -- Astrokey44|talk 23:17, 26 January 2006 (UTC) :
Originally, Lissa had no intentions of making an HTML help site when she began making her first Web site at the age of 11. She desperately wanted to make a personal Web site, but the internet was very new and her parents weren't comfortable with the idea because of safety issues. After months of begging and pleading and begging some more, her parents finally gave in and told her she could make a site. She taught herself to make her first site mainly by viewing the document source of many, many other Web sites. She was fairly persistent, so she learned a lot very quickly.
this Web site has opened up the world of Web page design for many other people.
[edit] Beginnings
Lissa's first Web site was an eyesore. It was full of animated gifs, huge image files that took too long to download, and MUSIC of all things. All of the image files had the .art extension because she was using AOL, and only AOL users could see her images. It was a mess. She kept forgetting the HTML codes to change things on her site, so she started jotting down basic codes on a private section of her site so that she wouldn't forget the codes. She wrote things like "how do I change the font on my site, how do I add images..." until she got a large list of instructions.
People started noticing her little personal page, and the questions started coming. "How did you do that on your site?," "Can you show me how to change my text?" She decided, rather than try to answer all the questions, she would just send them that private URL with all her notes. She got more and more requests for the URL, until she decided she should just make the the site public. Lissa soon had so many visitors, she decided her little site needed a title. She called it "Lissa's HTML Help and Web Page Resources for Kids." It was first published at GeoCities.
[edit] New Direction
Lissa's site began to become more and more popular. She began getting e-mails from all over the world from people asking for help on their Web sites. When she was all of 12 years old, she decided to purchase a domain name for her site in 1998, and renamed the site to Lissa Explains it All.
She wanted to keep it to herself so that "no one thought I was a geek or anything." Her friends at school still did not know she had a Web site.
It was aired nationwide, and picked up and televised by other major networks also, including CBS.
Since that time, LissaExplains.com has grown by leaps and bounds. and countless other newspapers in the United States and all over the world.
Lissa was quoted saying "I don't hate you for the fact that you quit as moderators, I just don't like you as human beings. :)"
[edit] About Lissa
Lissa is Although Lissa is famous for her Web site, Lissa Explains it All, she developed a love for dance at a very early age which continues to this day. Lissa was featured nationally on ABC (American Broadcasting Company) as a guest dancer for the Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade and Disney's Easter Parade between the ages of 10 and 11. She participated in countless dance solo and group competitions from the ages of 9 - 17, and has won numerous awards.
At the age of 11, Lissa received the Disney Dreamer and Doer award. The Disney Dreamers and Doers program recognizes one student from local schools who possess Curiosity, Confidence, Courage and Constancy - the qualities that Walt Disney so admired.
Lissa's interest in computers started at an early age also. In 1991, at the age of 5, she was fascinated by the games on her pre-kindergarten computer. She got her first computer at the age of 10 when the internet was still very young. She decided to make a Web site at the age of 11, which eventually blossomed into Lissa Explains it All.
[edit] The Wall Street Journal
I searched The Wall Street Journal archive, and I find the no mention of this site (searching the archives is free, while article contents cost money). I plan to remove it, unless somebody can put a proper citation (either a url, or the title/date/author/page of the article). --Rob 04:11, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
