Yes... you all know what this is. I swear, this archive is such a pain in the butt to update. But I need to keep these... it's kind of like a portfolio. I love (or hate) to look at my progress from "sucky" to "okay." Whenever I feel bad about my layouts, I can just come back here and look at my FIRST layouts and feel aaaaalll better. Heh heh.
I started making pages when I found something called "Front Page Express" on my computer. Once I figured out that you could make webpages with it, I started fiddling around just for entertainment. I wasn't planning on actually getting them up online. Well, my first pages were CRAP. They were bad. It was like, black background, blue Times New Roman text, no tables, MIDIs, it was awful. Then my mom came home with Front Page 2000. FP2000 is great, because unlike Express, it lets you get into the HTML. This is how I learned HTML. Even though I know most HTML, I still use FP2000, because I like to be able to see what I am doing, and I like the spell check.
I also found this graphics program that came with the scanner. It was called Adobe Photo Deluxe. It's by the same company as Photoshop, just nowhere near as good. So I started making crappy layouts on that. Later on I got Paint Shop Pro, which is very High and Almighty, and my layouts are getting better as time goes by. Just look around in this archive!
So I had this webpage that was not really a webpage, meaning it was on my hard drive, but not on the web. I begged my mom to let me put it up, and finally she agreed. So up went my crappy layouts and my crappy page, and there I was, thinking I was a genius.
My first webpage was called "Finnina's Cantina," and then later changed to "Project Delphinus," because I was going through my Whales and Dolphins and Constellations phase, and I thought it was a spiffy name (I had problems). It was just a site for me to post stuff by my friends and I. We used to write a lot of weird stuff back then. After awhile, it finally got through my head that Project Delphinus was a weird name, and you could hear the little thought rattling around in my head as I thought up this winner: Delphinium. Which turns out to be a flower. Since then, Delphinium has changed from just "my friends and I" stuff to a Sailormoon parody page to an anything-goes image spoof page.
I started to get more ideas for other pages. I wanted to make a Haruka shrine, and I did, but I rushed it because I wanted it to be up by her birthday, so it was pretty icky. I did get it up on her birthday, though, and I created my collective, "Sugoi!" on the same day so visitors would have access to both Delphinium and the Haruka shrine. So that's how my collective got started. It grew, got more hits, I made more pages, and finally I talked mom into letting me have a domain name. I was so obsessed that I got "Haruka.nu." It's sad, isn't it? As I'm not interested in anime anymore, and was tired of being pinned down as an "anime domain," even as my anime sites disappeared and other sites covering a wider variety of topics appeared in their places, I wanted to get a new domain name. However, Haruka.nu doesn't expire until May 2005, and I'm not going to waste good money. So, I bought a new domain, Alassea.net, where any new sites I create will be housed, and some moved over from Haruka.nu, but Haruka.nu will still remain up with some sites until it expires. Alassea.net is now the main collective.
