Attila Juhasz was given the nickname, Web God, from the hordes of Rob Halford fans, that recognize Attila from his masterful Internet creations for The Metal God. Attila is the heavy metal icon's Internet goto guy and has been since 1993 when Attila first assisted in promoting Halford's first project outside of Judas Priest, Fight, on Internet hard rock and metal newsgroups.
In early 1993, Attila set up a BBS (Bulletin Board Systems) where he disbursed marketing materials to clients and prospects. "I found the idea of displaying and delivering digital content through the telephone as an incredible technological achievement," says Attila,"one that I needed to be more a part of."
He began subscribing to other BBSs and went on a downloading frenzy grabbing every Shareware game available, album cover artwork, and space photography and stills from movies. He signed up and joined the CompuServe network and began networking with people across the country.
Several months later, he was introduced to World Wide Web. Using a 2400 baud modem, Attila used a text base interface to connect to University Unix databases and the world of ListServ lists and newsgroups. It was through these newsgroups that he started utilizing this new found power as a marketing tool to communicate to targeted masses and began issuing news and tour dates for Rob Halford.
Then, he received a copy of the first Mosaic browser for windows. Though it took an eternity to load, he was amazed to see a graphic image appear on screen. In October 1994, Netscape released a beta copy of the first commercial graphical web browser, Mozilla 0.96b and Attila was a beta Tester. "I felt like I was part of an elite group on an Internet breakthrough" adds Attila. A few months later on December 15, the official release of Mozilla 1.0 was unleashed on the world. With only Windows' Notepad at his disposal, he immediately started to teach himself the basics of HTML and built the first web pages for Marsh and McLennan (fortune 40) owned NERA.
In 1995 Attila purchased the domain name HorrorMovies.com, with hopes of building an easy to remember niche site to reach a targeted audience and to develop more contacts within the entertainment industry. By mid-1996 and still only using Notepad to write HTML code, and Corel Graphics, Corel Photopaint, and JASC's Paint Shop Pro shareware program for graphics, one of the world's first commercial genre web sites was born. Attila's HorrorMovies.com was growing with exlusive interviews with genre personalities including Sarah Michelle Gellar, Brian Yuzna and Tom Savini.
Attila was hired by premiere genre magazine, Fangoria, to write their first Internet feature article, The World Weird Web (Issue #162). The success of this article landed him a regular 2-page column called "Cyber Zone" in another glossy magazine, Sci Fi Teen.
By now, the time was also right for Rob Halford to have a web presence and being their go-to Internet consultant, hired Attila to build his first web site, Two-Online.com which was used to promote his upcoming new band, Two, produced by Trent Reznor. The site later evolved into RobHalford.com which Attila still produces today.
It was also time for Attila to have a web presence of his own. After building personal home pages with free space provided by his service provider, he launched AttilaJuhasz.com.
He also purchased the domain name, Nektar.com in 1996 and built a tribute site to the 70s progressive, space rockers Nektar. Band members hadn't been on speaking terms in over 10 years, but the site rekindled sales of their back catalog and dialogue finally opened between some members who have thanked Attila personally for giving them a reason to touch base again. Attila has been credited by many Nektar fans as being the cause for the first Nektar studio release in 20 years (Prodigal Son released 2001) as well as the famous 2002 reunion concert which was released on DVD. Even though all this wonderful activity was taking place, Attila just didn't have enough time to keep it going so he sold it to another Nektar fan in 2001, who happened to later sell it to a pharmaceutical company of the same name.
 By 1998, HorrorMovies.com visitation grew to astounding numbers and developed a huge cult following amongst the genre fans. Attila needed to take it to the next level. In December 1998, Unapix Entertainment, Inc., a publicly traded company in New York City, purchased HorrorMovies.com from Attila and hired me as Director of Internet Marketing (click here for Hollywood Reporter article).
In 1999, Attila was invited by TNT (Turner Network Television) to be on their Internet panel of judges for the Oscars.
On Halloween weekend 2000, Attila produced the world's first Internet séance with eYada.com which drew an enormous amount of media coverage. Attila did a series of radio interviews and was heard on stations in over 60 major US cities, Canada and the Virgin Islands.
 After leaving Unapix, Attila developed and consulted on many high profile web sites for Lifetime Television, Universal Music, CMC International, Newman's Own, Guinness Beer, Kraft and others.
Passionate about music and the business of the Internet, Attila saw a need to develop a new way to package and distribute music digitally. He took an original idea he developed in 1996 for enhanced CDs and reworked the concept so it could be distributed over the web via a single file. In 2003, designed and programmed a new product called a DEP (digital entertainment package). Rob Halford's management loved the concept and together released the world's first DEP on February 11, 2004, Halford, LIVE Disney House of Blues Concert. The DEP included 11 songs, and elements Attila created including a video game, screensaver, wallpaper, and more.
In 2005, Attila formed "Attila's Creative Works, L.L.C." through which he conducts all his business activities including his CafePress store, GetItShop.com, HorrorMoviesBlog.com, and GreatLoans.org.
In 2006, Attila's Creative Works produced 6 Internet only distributed commercial DEPs for Rob Halford's Metal God Entertainment and in early 2007 released MAC versions of the same. Attila also rebuilt the massive RobHalford.com site as well as HalfordMusic.com which was featured on VH1.
Early in 2008 Attila's Creative Works built MetalGodEnt.com and several internal projects.
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