This is a question I never get asked. When I mention I have a website they already assume I have one just to put things up on it. So they ask “Oh, what’s on it?”. With all the great sites out there for posting projects and various work where all can easily find it a separate website is not necessary to host projects and information. The creation of a website can be time consuming and expensive, which is why most people do not bother.

So why do I have a website then? Well for one thing not having to deal with file uploading sites is awesome! That and I am trying to get a name for myself as a writer and musician. Blogs and social networking sites have a lot of limitations and do not have the professional appeal people claim them to have. Song upload sites provide a nice start but no cheap way of promotion. Message boards are great for showing off new projects but you need to belong to many different ones to get the right audience but still most people tend to skim read.

To really be able to focus on what I am and what I do I need a separate domain. A personal website is the only place where I can express myself without any boundaries or limitations (until money is factored in). I can have a centralized location for all my projects regardless of the topic. In conclusion the next time someone mentions they have a website, ask them why they have it, not just what is on it.

I get this question a lot, "How did you come up with the name FoxZero?" The answer is usually, "I've just used it for so long." It actually spawned from the protagonist Fox in my story System Failure.Yeah that idea is pretty old. I simply took the name of my coolest protagonist and added Zero to make it my own alias. I really hadn't put that much thought into it, but I just stuck with it and a number of people thought it was cool. A number of people use this alias, some as long as I have, but I now intend to use for commercial purposes and it's the alias I use to build my reputation. I go by quite a number of nicknames and some are far more strange than this name, but online I'm simply known as FoxZero and I'm easy to find.