robwoolford.com

Who are you?
My name is Rob Woolford, and I am a media student at Sunderland University in England. I was born in January 1987 in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, and have travelled most continents of the world as a result of my parents being employed by the army. Whilst too young to remember those experiences vividly, I do have fond memories of living in Belize, a country that borders Mexico. I’m a big fan of sports, obsessed with football (or soccer to the yanks), but I do enjoy watching basketball, tennis, american football, ice hockey and a number of others. I’m a music geek - in that I’m always searching and trying to find new music to listen to, mainly hip-hop (although not the crap on the radio!). Massive fan of films also - watch any that I can get my hands on, doesn’t matter what nationality, what genre or whos in it. Also a computer geek, but you should have guessed that already…

Why do you have a website?
I saw robwoolford.com was available and thought why not? I can own my own name on the internet! I’m not really bothered about anonymity, I know this site is something that potential employers can read, or that friends can read - but that doesn’t bother me in the slightest. I want to turn this site into a flash online C.V. in the next few years – after I’ve finished university and have a lot of spare time, I imagine. It was also a plan of mine to set up a website for after uni because I plan to travel abroad and I’d like to put up photos and stories from anywhere I go. As a media student the amount of writing I do is appalling, so another reason is that I wanted to have somewhere that I could write regularly. I’m a computer geek at heart, and I’m too lazy to keep a paper-based journal. So THAT’s why I’ve got this website.

What can I expect to find on robwoolford.com?
Most things you will find will just read like a short conversation - light hearted, and probably about something that’s happened to me, or thoughts on sports, films, TV or something I’ve found on the net. No ground-breaking politics here I’m afraid.

How do I set up a website?
It’s not as hard as you think. You can set up shitty little sites on things like Geocities and 50megs.com, but you’ll lose interest in them almost as soon as you start them. My advice is to buy some web space and a domain name – a .com name will cost you like 5 quid a year or something similar. There are plenty of places to buy them from. I got mine from SurfSpeedy.com. Once you’ve bought some web space (3 quid a month, or less in some places) there’s a number of ways you can do it. You don’t have to know any html or php code, or any of that stuff – you can use things like WordPress (wordpress.org) or Dreamweaver (be patient and read the instructions for WP/Dreamweaver). They do all the hard work for you. All you need to do is load them up, type what you want, piss around with buttons, and press save/publish.

Do you know what sunlight is? Or do you spend all your days at your computer?
Once you’ve got a site set up you spend about five or ten minutes whenever you want to write stuff on it. You never really spend hours on here. I’d never turn down a night out with mates or a game of football to sit at my laptop! Hell, I wouldn’t even turn down watching a game of football down the pub to sit at a laptop. It takes a few hours to set up when you first get going, but unless your job is your website you never spend much time on here really! Just a quick rant here and there.

Contact details?
MSN/e-mail - mr_woolford@hotmail.com
Myspace - www.myspace.com/mr_woolford