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Well, I figured that I'd keep this page here because it's been a part of my site since it changed to Eku53ru no Webbie. Keep in mind that these are a bit long, as I strived to be more detailed in each incarnation. Some things have been re-explained from their previous versions in Ao no Requiem. X3;
- First Geocities Site
Nothing much to really say here; I was a happy little twelve-year-old that thought Geocities' PageBuilder was the best creation in the world. I had enough sense to not overdecorate the website, but it was pretty bad anyway. The only hits that the website received were my own, as well as the few friends that visited it when I told them about my website. It was poorly constructed due to my lack of HTML knowledge.
- Sanjiyanunkara's Anime Library (Geocities)
I grasped at the strings of HTML and fell in love with Takada Yuzo's 3X3EYES in seventh grade; as a result, my first experiment was born. I aspired to create a site like the multi-anime sites I saw, and receiving a copy of Adobe Photodeluxe Executable from a friend didn't help this much. My lack of knowledge on size optimization ruined the site - my splash page button was a bitmap. I eventually lost interest and abandoned the project.
- LadyMiaka's Universe of the Four Gods (Topcities)
I had sort of moved on from my 3X3EYES phase; however, I fell in love with Fushigi Yuugi instead in eighth grade. As a result, the website was going to focus on the FY series, and would be red in theme/color/etc. I learned more HTML by now, so I moved away from Geocities for this site to Topcities. Two pages were made before I quit (eventually it was deleted from the servers, most likely due to inactivity).
- Excel's Quack Experimental Anime Page! (Angelfire)
I took some time off from creating webpages and returned in my freshman year of high school; my new obsession was Quack Experimental Animation Excel Saga. This page was my very first frames site, but I wasn't very proud of it because I learned about cross-browser compatibility at this time. It was the first page that I displayed my art in, but it still didn't incorporate many images. My splash image was a shrunken Excel Saga wallpaper; no further editing was done to it. XD
- Eku53ru no Webbie (Freewebs)
When I heard about the joys of Freewebs, I was already a renewed fan of Digimon Frontier. I moved here after finding the host through a Digimon fansite, and reconstructed my website to a black/white look while continuing to display my art. In fact, my first site mascot was born at this time (Nanami). I actually attracted a few strangers to my site (a shock at that time, haha). The site was suffering nonetheless due to the tracker ad, and I eventually grew tired of it.
- Eku53ru no Webbie (Dragonflye)
I found out about Dragonflye through yet another Digimon fansite, and applied for hosting here. I was accepted quickly and rebuilt my website here, with the blue/white scheme you all have grown to love. The content basically remained the same, and I began joining fanlistings at this point; more art was added as I scanned in more, too. Google started picking up my website at this point, too. XD
- Eku53ru no Webbie (FreeWeb-Hosting)
After being hosted by Dragonflye Networks, my host decided to stop hosting people and I had to move. I found this through yet another Digimon fansite and signed up. My site evolved once here - from the old one from Dragonflye to the unveiling of v3.0, a full-on tables layout. I had applied for hosting at a site and was rejected for bland content. I was told to try again, and so I did; I rebuilt my website on tables (my first tables layout, too), and reapplied. I was still rejected, but I was happy with my accomplishment, layout-wise. It was closer to what I wanted to achieve when I was still in middle school. Sadly, my frequent updates stopped when 2005 came, as school became more stressing on me and I had to devote less time to a website. What followed was a series of nightmares. One of them was the fact that people accidentally Googled my secret page and asked me to trade stuff with them. The other was the lock-out that led me to Awardspace.
- Eku53ru no Webbie:HIATUS (Awardspace)
My junior and senior year of high school left my website with a bunch of tumbleweeds; and beginning in February '06 or so I searched for a better host due to my being fed up with the way FreeWeb-Hosting handled my site. That's when I discovered Awardspace; I quickly re-set up my site here, and slapped a "moved!" sign on my FW-H domains. However, in the process FW-H shut me out of my sites, which angered me even more. I was forced to stick up a hiatus notice on EnW due to my growing lack of commitment to the site, but kept my fanlistings alive since it required less effort to update them. I also began to dabble in PHP in my FLs, since AS supported it.
- Eku53ru no Webbie:HIATUS (AddYour)
When I upgraded my fanlistings to PHPFanBase, I found out that the mail functions didn't work because AwardSpace shut them off for free accounts. This led me to yet another host search, and I stumbled across AddYour. At first, the move was like a dream - it was seamless and almost perfect. However, the frequent downtimes bothered me to no end (both on the CPanel and Updating ends). The AY staff was very helpful when they helped, but then I heard about the advertisements they'd use to alleviate the cost to maintain free hosting. I quickly packed my bags and moved before they could implement them.
- Eku53ru no Webbie:HIATUS (FriHost)
My final(?) search for a free, reliable host brought me to FriHost, which was, and still is, a dream. Ad-free hosting, plenty of space, unlimited (almost) everything. I also updated my fanlisting management system to Enthusiast and really got into FLs here. The only downsides are the restarting of Apache (XD) and the need to post to keep an account here, but those are livable. X3 If you guys ask me, I'd recommend this host anyday, anytime. Hosting problems are solved quickly, and the admin of the site, Bondings, is very active (and very much human) on the forums. >3
- Eku53ru no Webbie (domain)
Yep, a domain. o___o; FriHost began acting up pretty badly in July, and in September my uptime checker caught only 37 of its outages. It was about time I moved hosts - I originally began the plans to reopen the site while I was hosted on FriHost, but then the domain popped up. This led to a great deal of recoding that has yet to stop. XD While this website might look like a streamlined version of 3.0's Ao no Requiem, it's the backend stuff you don't see that makes it 4.0 instead of 3.X. XP