About
About me
Hej! 👋 My name is Karin and I live in a small rural village in northern Sweden. I work as a web developer and love drawing and making pixel art in my spare time. Other passions include the Internet in general, animals of all shapes and sizes, horror movies and fantasy books, and heavy metal music.
If you want to know more about me as a person I suggest visiting my blog and personal site Hexed Hearth. 🧙♀️
About the site
Hexed Pixels functions as a gallery for my pixel art and dolls.
Tech and credits
This site is built with self-hosted WordPress and a custom theme made by me. I write the code in Visual Studio Code and upload the files to my webhost with Filezilla.
For a more extensive list of the tools I use, you can check out the /uses page on my personal website.
History
I’ve been making websites since I was a teen in the late 90s when I started with cyber pet adoptions on Geocities. I have had many different sites and domains since then, something I’ve written more about on my personal site.
As for Hexed Pixels, it started in August 2022 when I decided to give my pixel art and dolls its own site. At first as a subdomain to my main one (at that time imaginarykarin.com) and the name IK Pixels. In July of 2023 I decided the name was too dull to live with and changed it to Hexed Pixels instead. Later that year, in August 2023, I gave in to my urges and purchased the domain name hexedpixels.com.
All updates to the site can be found in the updates archive.
Past name and url
IK Pixels (pixels.imaginarykarin.com)
Past layouts
1 – First
The site was first called IK Pixels so the very first header/logo had that instead of the current name. The witch’s hat in the header is animated on hover. You can see the hat and Twitter bird on their own on this page.
2 – Hatty
Just a rework of the first layout really. I changed the name of the site so needed to redo the header, which turned into a whole new header in the end.
3 – Hedvig
Hedvig is the name of the red haired witch. I don’t know, I just thought the name suited her… 😅 I call the cat Franz. The bats haven’t told me their names yet. Honestly rather pleased with the cloudy background and the animated twinkling stars.
