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How did HSLife arrive? Well. To see a week by week breakdown, read Diary Of A DJ, in which DJ Ess tells his life in weekly chunks. HSLife is the brainchild of a group of people who wanted their own say on the web. We're just ordinary people linked by a very special job, a mobile disco which carries such a good atmosphere with it that it has made us celebrities. Anyway, with far too much time on their hands at work, everybody started typing away, reviews, features, jokes, anything good or funny, and sent it all to DJ Ess, who loaded it onto his computer, which you see to the right, along with a flyer for Enigma and hand, amongst other junk. Then we had to find a better web-server that our current one, Free-Servers. Free-Servers was alright, but it had a dodgy way of making you own sites, and you only had 20 megs of space, and they stuck adverts at the top. After a bit of hunting around, we found Free-Online, who give you unlimited web-space, and don't stick adverts everywhere. All they ask is that you put a link to their site on your front page, which

Guess who's hand? Answers to DJ Ess's mail address.

And who is that guy right on the top right? I don't think I've ever seen him before.

sounded quite reasonable to me. Meetings were held via e-mail and down the pub, and it was decided who was doing what and how they were going to do it. Then the shadowy presence of the owners of High SpiritS stepped in. They who shall not be named took Nase_2K and DJ Ess, the two highest-ranking employees besides themselves, into a meeting to discuss this site. What came out was that they would provide prizes (decent ones, like CD players) if we dedicated a part of the site to them. As DJ Ess had already decided to do this, the money side of things was sorted out. After a fund raising party to get some money for some prizes, where everyone got drunk and had a good time, as you can see on the left, we set about promoting ourselves. Adverts were places on the web, we got ourselves on every search page in the world, and a temporary page was set up, which stayed there much longer than we expected. A mailing list was also set up, courtesy of Listbot.com, and the reaction was incredible. Over 500 people joined the mailing list in 24 hours. Then everything started

to go wrong. It quickly became apparent that the site was not goingsite was not going to be ready when we thought it was. In fact, it wasn't going to come close. Competitions were held via the mailing lists, and everybody was kept kinda happy. Everybody with a modem had buggered off to University, so getting online became a drag as well. But, eventually (well, I hope, obviously because I am typing this it isn't ready yet), everything got finished. So, if you want your own web-site, this is how we think you should do it.

Have a get-together and decide what you site is going to be about.
Make sure you have lots of free time.
Think of a name.
Find someone to host your site. A dot-com address is available for about 7 bar, but lots of people let you sign up for free.
Submit your page to lots of search engines. There are sites which will do this automatically for you, and for free.
Put a temporary page up, set yourself up a mailing list account, and put that on the page, too.
Build you site on your computer at home/in the office (but don't let your bosses catch you).
Put your site on the web.
Keep adding and changing things, so people keep coming back. Good luck!