Originating Date: January 18, 2009
Host: Parade Hosting

The Name:

Why CheckTheMentality.com? Okay, so what happened with the naming of this site is that my given name is Jacqueline Maybritt Janssen. My whole name is way too long for a URL. It would consist of 24 characters for crying out loud! JacquelineJanssen.com was already taken as well as JacquelineJanssen.net and JackieJanssen.com or .net does not sound appealing to me professionally. Instead, I decided to title the site as I would with an art piece, but the problem was that I needed a name that sounded ever-changing and expressed me as a person.

As I was going through potential pieces for my online portfolio, I ran across one that I titled wrong. It was supposed to be titled “Check The Mentality ; It’s Ridiculous Son”. It was a self-portrait done in pencil that you might have seen on my site, it is my hand with all these things written on it that expressed me as a person. The reasoning behind it being titled wrong was that I could NOT remember the name! I had stayed afterschool to finish the piece and was asked to register it, but with my questionable memory could not remember the intended name and I instead titled it “Dope Beyond Belief”. I was hoping it did not win because I did not want it being recognized under that name. However, it was already titled and I could not change it.

After writing down and checking 10 different possible names for this site to see if they were available as domains I settled on CheckTheMentality.com. It was the last name on my list and I was hoping that THAT name would be the one so that the title did not go to waste. Guess what? It was.

From the point that I opened this website, it has been converted from my portfolio to a blog and resource site. My portfolio has since been relocated to MissJanssen.com because of the fact that the number of pieces included in it grew vastly within a year from when I first opened the website.

Credits
All resources that have been used in the creation of this website.

Webmiss
Jackie – the girl behind the website.