Palmer Blevins.Net

Today marks a milestone of sorts for me: Bleidd Publishing is now 13 years old! This website was created in the cold, dank and unholy confines of the Blackburn College Computer Lab in Hudson Hall on a rusty Gateway computer on March 15, 1997 when I saw my friend Stephanie working on hers. After teaching me some basic HTML, I was set.

At first, the site just had a simple about me: personal stats, what I was majoring in, my interests, etc., but nothing really juicy or meaty. Eventually I created a couple fan pages on the site: WCW pro-wrestling and AC/DC, and started to add genealogical stuff in 1999. Originally, I nicknamed the site “The Den of the Black Wolf” as a sort of homage to my surname, which is Welsh for “little wolf” and for the little rebellious period I was going through in college my sophomore year.

By 2000, with two years left and my rebellious stage gone, I turned the site more into a genealogical showcase; selling a genealogical booklet I had written as well as business info for individuals to contact me with if they were interested in hiring me for research (genealogical, historical, theological, etc.) and web design/management. For a more serious feel, I changed the name of this site to Blevins Web Productions and it reached a great deal popularity.

In December of 2002 I graduated from Blackburn with a degree in history and moved to Springfield, IL., with ambition in my step, a dream in my head and a goal in my heart. As a new grad, I realized food was more important than a website, so I reverted it back from having a personal domain to a simple free Yahoo! Geocities site until around 2005 when brought back PalmerBlevins.com and created a new domain BlevinsCo.com; still business sites in nature, I added genealogy back to the mix as well as political commentary. The time period from 2005-2007 was the heyday of this site; logging thousands of visitors of month and comments galore from a host of people.

In 2007, after changing it to PalmerBlevins.net, this site began to go in decline as I began to loose interest in and become jaded in politics and my own political aspirations. I lost the spark and love I had in writing, and this site began to reflect it as I was constantly deleting posts/comments, revamping, etc. Many times I thought about just calling it quits when it came to this site and writing.

But here we are now in 2010. I recently changed the name of this website to Bleidd Publishing (Bleidd being a Welsh term for “wolf”, similiar to my surname which is also Welsh for “wolf”) when I relocated here to Los Angeles, to more less symbolize going back to this site’s roots. More business in nature than personal now, I feel more motivated to write now more than ever. Though the formerly popular Blevins Blog page is no more, and I don’t plan on writing scathing in your face articles any more (have to play nice and professional), it is my goal to make this site very popular once again.

I would like to thank the people who have visited this site frequently since its humble beginnings 13 years ago, as well as new visitors. In addition, I have also reset the StatCounter. As always, I welcome comments, suggestions and questions as long as they are in good taste and respectful. Hopefully this site will be around in another 13 years and will enter another golden age.