Flamora originally opened in July 2009 but was later closed for several months. While I wanted a personal blog and portfolio for a long time, I found I was not quite ready for it. I didn't realize how much time would need to be taken away from running my resource site,
Atomic Affliction, in order to keep Flamora up.
Thankfully for Flamora's sake, Myspace is dead and business at Atomic isn't exactly booming anymore. On June 26, 2010, Flamora reopened with a better design and a promise of more commitment from me. I plan to use the site to build a decent portfolio for future design prospects and to blog about various analytical nonsense.
Now about the name...it's a prime example of why I should never attempt to be meaningful when it comes to names. Unlike the disaster that is Atomic Affliction, I wanted this site's name to have some sort of connection to myself. I've been an obsessive Harry Potter fan since age seven, so the first place I looked was an online Harry P. encyclopedia. The enclyopedia claimed that "flamora" was a spell used to create flames. 'Twas available and pretty-sounding, so I took it. Later that summer I decided to reread all the books again only to find out "flamora" isn't actually in any of them. I double checked a few other sites and none of them had it listed. At least is still sounds nice.
