CSD Projects
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
United Kingdom

Site last updated 18th July 2010
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CSD Projects consists of a single person, Alexander Atkin. I do all the work in my spare time out of my own pocket. I do ocassionally enlist help online but for the most part, its all my work.

My first projects were websites about young actresses as I wanted to get into web design but doing something that nobody else at the time were catering for. There were already fansites for famous people so I had to look younger, choose people who were not yet famous but were showing promising talent.

Several sites came and went as I struggled to find someone I could find enough material about to make a decent website. The one that fared the test of time however was Mae Whitman, as she showed so much potential and had many high profile movie and TV roles. I could not stop watching her movies and hardly anyone else seemed to notice her. (Artcurus being one that did, content from his site has since been merged with mine as he no longer had time to maintain it)

By the time other sites showed up about her I was already convinced my site offered more and I renamed it to The Mae Whitman Fan Network as a source of material to help other people create their own Mae tribute sites.

While working on my earlier sites however I was asked by Debbie Hirsh if I would do a site for her daughter who had recently had her first high profile acting role alongside Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in You've Got Mail. This would be my one and only officially supported site which is still running today, although I have lost touch with Debbie so updates are few and far between.

Doing the Hallee site I realised it was a very tiring and time consuming process and I was more interesting in how the code worked than the design. I needed a better way to pay tribute to young talent and help other fans find images from their film/TV work.

Yahoo Clubs had recently merged into Groups and was next to useless for this purpose because of it. So I set off to learn about the new-fangled PHP, CSS and JavaScript everyone was raving about to see if it would help solve my problem.

CSD Clubs was born and while it was never a big hit, it serves its purpose. Best of all it gave me valuable knowledge of PHP, CSS and JavaScript which I have used to streamline my Hallee and Mae sites into the seamlessly integrated state they are today. There are few fan sites out there today that are hand crafted HTML and fully integrated custom written image and video galleries. It allows my sites to offer Amazon shopping links and also display information such as how many stills/videos I have available to preview on the site for the movie you are currently looking to buy.

After taking a bit of a rest from it all I started learning C# in 2008. Its going a lot slower than I expected particularly as I am coding for Windows Mobile rather than desktop Windows.