About

The cineaste embarked on his first foray into web design by teaching himself HTML & CSS and carefully curating his hex color combinations for maximum cringe. Every page was hand coded with Microsoft Notepad. The site’s working title was “Godzilla Universes,” conceived primarily as a dumping ground for all the useless information about Godzilla he’d been carting around in his head. (Making the site easily navigable and visually appealing was a secondary concern.)

The cineaste launched the site to the world as “The Godzilla Database,” but soon relented and renamed it to “The Godzilla Cineaste” to match the domain his dad bought. The site was filled with incomplete pages and broken links and the cineaste wasn’t very proud of that at the time. Website updates were accomplished via FTP with FileZilla and CyberDuck. Updates were limited by the cineaste’s college schedule.

The cineaste took a formal web design course and decided his website really did suck and took the whole thing down until he could rewrite it from scratch. Unfortunately the cineaste was (and kinda still is) a perfectionist and refused to release anything until it was just right. The site was “under construction” for seven years while the cineaste puttered around, slowly collecting movies and learning how to code.

The cineaste had a real life grown up job by this point and was newly married. The missus knew the cineaste had been fretting about the site for a while and told him to “just do it and have fun.” Later that same year the Godzilla Cineaste relaunched with a brand new look and a 100% reduction in broken janky pages. This version of the site is the one the cineaste continues to maintain and iterate on today.