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FIRST WEBSITE • 2011

This is where it all started.

In 2011, at eleven years old, I ran a blog about cats on Oldiblog. It introduced me to HTML, CSS and even a little JavaScript. More importantly, it is where I discovered how much I loved creating websites.

Home page of the Félix blog, created in 2011
Year
2011
Platform
Oldiblog
Technologies
HTML, CSS & first experiments with JavaScript

01 / THE BEGINNING

My first website

At eleven, I simply wanted to have my own blog. I used Oldiblog, a platform that allowed users to directly edit the HTML, CSS and JavaScript of their theme.

Very quickly, modifying the website became almost more interesting to me than publishing on it. I wanted to change colours, move blocks, add elements and, above all, make my blog look different from everyone else's.

02 / LEARNING

Hours spent experimenting with code

I still remember spending hours trying to position an element correctly, changing a few lines of CSS, refreshing the page and starting again because it still was not quite how I wanted it.

I obviously knew very little about web development at the time. I learned a great deal through Le Site du Zéro, following tutorials and immediately trying what I had just discovered on my own website.

03 / WHAT I DISCOVERED

Much more than a blog

Looking back, the website is obviously very much a product of its time. But that is also why I like keeping it as it is: it represents the exact moment when I started to love the web.

I already loved that mix of creativity and technology: starting with an idea, changing something in the code and immediately seeing the result on screen.

04 / TODAY

A passion that stayed

It is funny, but despite all the projects I have worked on since then, Félix is probably still the one I am most proud of.

It is neither modern nor technically impressive. It is simply part of my story: this small blog, when I was eleven, is where I discovered a passion for building websites that has never left me.