About

Shi Bytes is the website hub of author, athlete and web savant Shirley Siaton Parabia. This site lists all my active blogs and web projects.

ShiBytes.com was purchased on Tuesday, 19 April 2016, nine days after I brought my first child, a beautiful baby girl, into the world. I owned this particular TLD before, having initially coined the domain name back in 2009. It eventually expired and would remain in online limbo until 2015, when I purchased it again in January. I did not renew it in early 2016, but it was free to register again a few months later. It was launched in its current incarnation as my website hub on 25 March 2023.

As for the site name, it is actually a bit of wordplay, a little something that has been percolating in my mind for a number of years now. “Shi” is one of my nicknames while “bytes” is a unit of measure for computer data as well as a homonym for “bites”. Thus, through the sites in this collective, I am offering the InterWebs en masse bite-sized slices of my life.

Our domain registrar is NameCheap. Webspace provided by MDD Hosting. Both services are very highly recommended!

This website is powered by WordPress. The following plugins are used: Instagram Feed, JetPack, Really Simple SSL, Regenerate Thumbnails and Remove Category.

Our current design is named Rosemary, with very special thanks due to Sky and Stars, Haute Stock, Pixabay, StudioPress and Unsplash. All other original source/s of articles, images and other resources are always credited and/or linked back, whenever available.

You can keep in touch with me on your favorite social media channels and sharing networks. You can follow my accounts on FaceBook, Instagram and Twitter. To find out more about what I do and love, please visit my personal journal.

All donations for the upkeep of this blog and its associated sites are very much welcome. Feel free to contact me if you have any queries and/or suggestions.