A Little History Lesson About sirkorgo.com

Posted on Mar 22, 2026, by sirkorgo

It’s been three years since I impulsively bought my domain in the middle of class, From Blogger, to Google Sites, back to Blogger, and then to Jekyll, a LOT has happened in that three year time span.

Sirkorgo’s Closet
I wanted to make a website back in February of 2023, but had no idea how to code. I didn’t even know what HTML and CSS was. I had no money, so any visual builder was out of the question, obviously. Eventually, I found Blogger. If you don’t know what Blogger is, it’s a free blog service by Google of all companies. Blogger really helped shape sirkorgo.com into what it is today, and I will forever love Blogger for providing a really nice framework for websites. At this point, I had no idea how to get a custom domain, and I didn’t have any money, so getting a domain was out of the question. Besides, I was probably gonna ditch this OC for something cooler.
See the site on archive.org.

Sirkorgo’s Club/Blog
Still on Blogger, my site evolved a bit! I got the money for a domain, and I found out how cheap it was! At the time it was only $9.44 a year, which is really good for me. I went ahead and bought it (in class) and I had it! I bought a domain for sirkorgo! At this point, the site was called Sirkorgo’s Club, and a little bit in the future I renamed it to Sirkorgo’s Blog. In the Spring 2024, I redesigned the site to have a neat pastel spring color palette.

See the site at oldkorgo.blogspot.com.

The Corporate Era
At this point, probably mid 2024, I decided to leave Blogger. I wanted my site to look a little bit MORE modern, and I didn’t ever really post anything to my blog, nor did I have any sirkorgo related work to show.

So I tried using a combination of Carrd, a minimal site maker, and Google Sites. Looking back, I genuinely hated this site. There wasn’t personality whatsoever, and the site was just.. Plain boring with no REAL work to look at. Also I think the site was just so bad that some security companies flagged my site as malicious. At the time I didn’t know, but I found out effectively 2 years later, when my site randomly stopped working because of that malicious flag More detail on my previous blog post about this: How AI Destroyed my Website

Then again, I still couldn’t code. So I was stuck with either a dying platform (Blogger), or corporate slop. I eventually figured out a way to make the site look better with this combination, but it was still really bad, as well… no real content.
Not gonna link this site because it was just THAT bad, I don’t have a functioning copy, and archive.org didn’t back it up properly. It’s genuinely a horrible mess.

Korgoweb 3
It was just so bad, I decided I was gonna go back to Blogger, In January of 2025, I published this new site. It was just titled, “sirkorgo.com” but I refer to it as Korgoweb3 now. This site was a lot better, and I think it was the best I could have done with Blogger. This was the first site with a guestbook, and it was the site that saw the creation of Sirkorgo! In the Meantime… and during this period, I began learning HTML and CSS in my Computer Science class. This site lasted the majority of 2025, up until October 2025. Overall, I really liked this site, even though I still didn’t really have any significant work to show besides my low quality comics.


See the site at sirkorgo.blogspot.com.

Korgoweb 4
When I felt that my HTML and CSS skills were enough to build my site from the ground up. But I didn’t really know where to start. I knew that manually copy pasting every line of code for every blog post and page would be really tedious. Eventually, I stumbled upon something called Jekyll. Jekyll is a lifesaver.
It essentially automates making your websites in a way. It takes an HTML template and then puts your content into that template. Meaning that I only have to write the layout for my site once, and that’s it. A real time saver. Anyways, after two weeks of development, the new and improved sirkorgo.com came out! I’m really proud of this site, considering that it’s my first “real-world” HTML and CSS usage implementation. The site’s design was focused on early 2000’s skeuomorphism, mainly on Apple’s Aqua UI.

And that’s about it! Right now, you’re looking at Korgoweb 5! It’s the latest sirkorgo.com design, and the focus of the design here was to have a balance between whimsy and minimalism, to prioritize content. Thanks for reading this, it may be the longest blog post I’ve written!

That’s all from me, see ya!
-Sirkorgo