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- Who is ifanlin? -
This is
iFAN LiN.
I've never been a fan of thick books, therefore I was naturally
drawn towards pictures, which probably led to my love for drawing.
As a first grader, I watched my sister play piano and demanded to
follow her steps. As a direct result, my mom signed me up for piano
lessons. Even though I was rebellious against practicing, even hated
piano for a while, I fall in love with writing my own music with a
piano during high school.
At the same time, I came across HTML and expanded my love for
visuals and music onto web design. Later on, I began to write
Chinese poetry that naturally turned into lyrics for my own
composition. All of a sudden, it's been eight years since I first
recorded a song of my own. Coming from amateur music sites, like
Rockacola or RichMedia, I finally got my own domain - ifanlin.com -
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EDUCATION
OTHER INTERESTS
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- Site Map -
In recent years, I've directed most of my creativity towards music
production, so this website has been structured with the music as
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News
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website
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Intro
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A simple description of me and my
site
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Who is
ifanlin
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Site Map
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Site History
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Albums
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The online publication of my music
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Forum
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You are welcome to comment/ask
questions here, but plz don't spam!
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Artwork
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Creativity towards areas other than
music
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Sketches/Drawings/Visual Art Designs
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Photography
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Poetry
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- Site History -
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1998 |
Started the first web design for my dad's company,
ChallengeBio.com. With the help of my uncle, I slowly picked up HTML...
With a little bit of experience, I began designing my own site, which at
the time was only in Chinese. Since I loved drawing and design, I had a
lot of my sketches online, along with some other useless information. |
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These logo designs were made for the first website. The original design
came from my Graphic Design class; we were required to design a personal
logo for a project. As you can see it is a combination of my initials, I
and L. Also, it looks like a Chinese character, representing my Taiwanese
roots. The following are some logos and animations made for the first
version of the website.
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1999 |
This was the year that I started to use Frames and a
guestbook on my website.
In addition, I also began designing a separate website called NEWAGE, which
was intended to draw talents online to collaboratively put together an
entertainment website, that includes popular lyrics, jokes, fun quizzes,
clipart, stories..etc. However, it was hard coordinating 4 or 5 people over
the internet. As a result, it fell apart.
This was also the year that I began writing more lyrics and poems. |
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2000 |
The 2nd and 3rd versions of the site were published. All the non-original
material were slowly removed, what's left were my compositions. I also began
recording my own songs. Below is the logo for version 3.
The following is a banner for the 3rd version site. As you can see, it
started to focus more on products of my creativity.
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2001 |
Although I still loved drawing, writing music began to
eat up most of my free time. |
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2002 |
Joined in a few amateur music/literature websites to
help promote my own site. |
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2003 |
The 4th version of iFAN LiN STUDiO was designed.
The following is the logo for it. Again, it's a combination of i and L. But
now it looks like the Chinese character "norm", which is part of my Chinese
name "sail", and has the same pronunciation as "sail" .
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2004 |
After using so many free webspace service, I finally
had a no-ads, free space to use, under my school UC Berkeley's server. |
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2006 |
Began to use Stanford University's student web
service. The 5th version of STUDiO came out, focused on music - iFAN LiN
MUSiC. The new logo now looks like a person...
 
Signed a 2-year contract with EMI as a music and lyrics writer. |
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2007 |
Got my own domain,
www.ifanlin.com |
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2008 |
The 6th version finally reached the public. Finally
decided to abandon the Frames and use CSS framework. This time,
the logo has the same feel as the last, but it's much more clear that it's a
person, doing a dance/kick move.
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