What Is Your Websites History?

Albus Dumbledore

Aug 15 2006, 05:10 AM

What is your websites history? How did it start out? where is it now?

Well, Personally i think that my website has been through a whole lot of crap in its life, although i only have ONE origional member from when it first started over 5 years ago, we still get many visitors to my site.

My site started out as a super small role playing (as harry potter characters), website designed on AOL Homepage, which consisted of a website designer kind of like what Geocities has.

then we got rid of AOL so i had to re-start my site again (what a big change) about two years after i did my stuff on AOL HomePage i switched to GeoCities, i didn't like the ads on that, so i said screw it for designing my own role playing site and went to Invision Free which i now think is a rip off site because all they did was get a free version of IPB 1.3 and add google ad-sence to every forum that got set-up and make buko-bucks lol newho

then i switched to a place called byethost and started trying to make my site on there, then i switched here to trap17 and continued editing my site (which consists of HTML now, not page makers, or forums hehe) but i realized that i did not touch it for a while, so i took it down, until recently i found another host and put it on there, and now i am running my friends site on my trap17 account, but just messing with my site (not active) evvery so often, soon to buy computing host account..

so whats your websites history if it has any?

truefusion

Aug 15 2006, 08:32 AM

When i first started my own website, i was using Angelfire as my host. Since i was new to HTML, i had to use their custom-made editor. The website was about my favorite anime at the time: Dragon Ball Z (DBZ). As i got better aquainted with HTML, i was able to stop using Angelfire's editor, and start coding my own layouts. My site was becoming bigger, and packed with information about DBZ. I was getting a decent amount of hits to the site--couldn't complain--thanks to the affiliates i have. While maintaining that one, i decided to make another site, but this time not limited to one anime. It was OK, but i didn't really put much effort into as i had done with my previous site.

After a long while, i started losing interest in animes, but was getting more into web design. I decided to ditch the websites i had and create a new one, but more based on web design to teach others about it, and to provide some resources; this new site would still include some anime. The name for this new website was a merging of the two site's names that i had left behind. The new name became "TrueFusion".

Since web design includes many programming languages, i needed a host that provided PHP--the new language i was learning at the time. I found a host named "HostUltra," it had what i wanted. However, after a while of using their service, i wanted to expand again. I wanted to stay within the free webhosting services. So, i ditched HostUltra because i needed to pay for a MySQL database.

After a long search, i came across Trap17. I found everything i needed, and it is now my site's current host. Although i stopped maintaining it and have been more active in the forums, i still keep it alive so others can look at the tutorials i've written and download the scripts i've made. Though, i do plan on updating it sometime soon.

Well, that's the history of my site.

TypoMage

Aug 16 2006, 07:20 PM

Hmmm well my site is not really done yet. But it looks like your site is up and running. I am sorry to say that I am not a really big Harry Potter fan. But I will chack out your site.

NDPA

Aug 16 2006, 09:13 PM

My website's history is quite complicated and rather broken, because I've actually forgotten when I started my site, and the events that led up to it. This is what I remember:

Both me and a female friend of mine used to be big Neopets fans, and we would talk about it every day together. We just saw the game as the best thing the web has ever given, and saw no sign of it going downhill. So when Neopets finally DID start going downhill, we both agreed that there was something needed to be done.

The main things that came into mind was the adverts neopets had added everywhere on the site, and the amount of unused characters they'd registered. I had a talk with my friend, and we agreed that we needed a community that was free from ads, and that always used everything it had, not let things just dissapear.

Anyway, I don't know if it was because of a hatred of neopets, or a dare from my friends, or even if I was even thinking at the time, but I eventually decided to start my own community, called Denzipets. I got a test site up sometime in the later half of 2005, but I don't consider that to be part of Denzipets' history anymore, since the principles for the site were different from those today, so I won't discuss that. In October 2005, I moved the site over to cjb.net, but the ad banner they added onto the site and their various web hosting restrictions made me unable to keep it up there, and I stopped using it after a week.

I still didn't give up, though. Having some expirience in the field of communities after a little bit more time at neopets and a few attempts at moderating other peoples forums and/or being active in them, I began to rework Denzipets entirely. My friend stopped helping me at that point, believing that I had given up on the idea, but my brother is now actively helping with the graphics, saving me a lot of time. When I had finished a basic site design, I decided to look for a host for it. By accident, I stumbled across Trap17, and the rest is history.

I got hosting on Trap17 in November, and the site made an official realease on January 1st, 2006. But even to this day it is still being worked on, and even I have to admit it is far from complete. So now you know the past, will you be there in the present, joining us in our quest to make the future of gaming communities? It's your move.

Gyad

Aug 16 2006, 10:30 PM

My website actually started from nothing. It was formed by a person named Inferno. He used to visit the Golden Sun boards a lot on GameFAQs. Back in the old days, fanfiction were still allowed on the boards. Then one day, the moderators decided to delete/move all of them, which caused great grief to some of the writers.

So Inferno decided to group all of them together, so he made a forum called GSFantasy. Along the lines, another person named Anarchatos came along and decided to help him. He created a site, and moved the board to a better forum.

Eventually, the advertisement on GameFAQs began, grouping everyone (including me) together into the newly made Fantasy Abyss.

Random people started joining, some stayed, a lot of them left and hardly ever comes back. Eventually, the board became spammy, because people barely cared what happens, so we kept transferring to newer boards, which annoyed people. No one likes it when your post count is 2000~ and then suddenly we have to start all over.

This process happened like three times, until finally we settled onto a real site with paid hosting and a domain name. There, Fantasy Abyss settled for about a year. Then, things started dying. The activity on the forum decreased day by day, and the number of spam seemed to rise again. In addition to that, spam bots also raided our forum everyday. People were getting angry.

And then, everything died. The one who paid for the site, made everything look good (Anarchatos) finally gave up. He had a few reason to do so too.
-He was never really that into the forum.
-People didn't like moving, which annoyed him.
-People thought he was acting stupid and selfish, completely ignoring how they felt.

So in the end, he deleted everything. So then Me and every other staff member on the forum (Except Inferno, because he sided with Anarchatos) decided to recreate Fantasy Abyss.

And because I've been a past user of Trap17, I decided to recreate it. And now, Fantasy Abyss much better than it used to be. The only exception being that it's not on paid hosting/domain name. But that might soon change.

iwuvcookies

Aug 19 2006, 05:17 PM

I started on the web I think off of Geocities.com or was it tripod. Oh wait yeah its Geocities. They provided the easy drag and drop and insert objects html editor thingy. It was easy to work and that's what i used. Then i discovered javascripts that i could put in. Later on i found ou that javascripts slowed down the page relatively if there were lots of javascripts on the page.

I scouraged around for some free host. My layouts weren't very nice looking. But tehy were more advanced than just drag and drop. I think i used something called Adobe Photo Maker or soemthing. It wasn't Adobe Photshop or paintshop pro or anything. But there was the layer capability in it. It helped alot. As i blended in pictures. I updated my website to side bars that came out when you put your mouse on it. I think it was Dhtml or whatever.

I used iframes for content boxes. lol. I thought it was the coolest thing pressing a link and popping it inside a page. it was like tv or somethign. lol. Some of the original content I made up I still ahve today on my website. Which has divs and the image positioned at the far left top corner.

Its more html/css oriented and no drag and drop stuff. Lol. Woudln't that be handy.

my site is basically personal one with a blog. I started from a good forum posting host Aboho and than now i'm at Trap17. I was skeptical back then because those forum posting host sometimes go down. But Trap has stayed on for "ages". Its realiable.

Albus Dumbledore

Sep 20 2006, 05:54 AM

looks like everyone here started off with a site that was hosted on a free hosting site with ads, and then progressivly found their way here to trap17!

i guess its good that no one who posted here just decided one say to make a website and came to trap17 because i believe that for a website to be sucessful they need to go through the free sucky hosts before they get to the professional hosts that are actually good and more complicated to use.

but that is jsut what i think, and it looks like everyone's site has come along way....

good job on your sucess everyone

Zero Ziat

Sep 20 2006, 04:59 PM

Gee, this is gonna be so short:

On 2003/2004 Exadv1(A guy) released a game called "console" on BYOND hub. It was about programming, and it was multiplayer. There were LOTS of interesting stuff to do, but there was NO MANUAL.

Exadv1 never updated console.

I decided to make a page about console. With relevant stuff, tips, and a lot of members.

The game wasn't quite popular between normal people because you needed to program and most lowered-IQ people thought it was for nerds/geek.

It lost rating. I started making my site on freewebs. It sucked but it had a bit of info. It got really outdated (REAAAALLLLY).

I decided to make a new site on Freewebtown.com, the service was great but I wasn't conformated.

My friend, Kinori Kalrath(Or Stari) gave me hosting on zero.kalrath.com, as he was also a good console player with me. The site was great, I had my own forums.

The game got really outdated (Version is from 2004!) and I decided to close website.

I left some profanities on main page and went to Trap17 when I discovered it before(A newbie console player) told me about it.

Now I decided to make my website with lots of fun stuff and a lot of people, but I lack of them.

(Please visit my site at http://www.zeroziat.co.nr)

CONSOLE

That's all

RecordSites

Sep 23 2006, 06:44 PM

I have got a few other websites and was searching for a good free promotion site. Because i didn't found any I made my own.

That's when i made Record Sites. I was very happy with the idea and the concept.At the moment it's a few weeks later and Im now trying to find a few webmasters who are interested in my service. This is pretty frustrating

because I am so sure I can run a good service but It's hard to find some members.

This was also the main reason i got active on this forum, and here I am

Bkag

Sep 23 2006, 07:08 PM

I had my first site probably 4 years ago, it was on geocities and was pretty bad generally. My second site was basically a flaming forum, i can't actually remember what is was for but it was there! For a 2 years or so i didn't do any websites but then i caught the eBay bug and was selling a lot of stuff and buying a lot of stuff. Then i decided to open my own online store, the first one i opened was a zen cart store on some weird host (can't remember which one) and ditched that after a week. Then i found Trap17, opened an oscommerce store and ran that for about 6-8 months i think. I then ditched that site for no reason what so ever except that it was easier to just sell my stuff on eBay

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Then i thought i should open another site, a forum on Rc! So now i am running my forum, it has been open for 4 weeks or so and has only 22 members

and 735 posts. But we hope it will take off since it is much different than any other rc forum i have seen. Our Google positions are lacking but our msn ranking is good, No 2 for the search "rc forum" on UK search and 11 on international.

Well that is my incredibly boring website history!

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Albus Dumbledore

Sep 27 2006, 05:28 AM

QUOTE(Plenoptic @ Sep 26 2006, 03:06 PM)

lol I have a rather short but rather interesting history. Nothing really exciting though.

I started out actually looking for a place to host my chat for a game I knew nothing about graphics, web sites, and web hosting at the time. Here though got me interested in computers and what not though and that's how it all started. My name was Crazy Stunt Man at the time so my first web site was called The CSM (Crazy Stunt Man) Network. lol Stupid name but like I said it was my first site. I didn't really know how to make a web site yet so I took a free template and eventually started a forum. I taught myself HTML and eventually made my own design on Photoshop. It ended up becoming a Graphics site but it never really got far in Google Rankings. I never really was able to get much of a site going.

Then as I got better with coding and what not I changed the name to Plenoptic Design. I made better sites and tried making free templates to download and made tutorials for people to read but that site also ended up like The CSM Network and didn't really get far. By this point my other host had gone down and I moved on to Trap17. After months of on and off work with the site I gave up and now have Stexel.net I was hoping to develop Visual Basic programs to offer for people but haven't really had the time yet. I was also gonna give the graphical design another shot but so far I'm still novice in design.

lol thats pretty rare for your site to turn from one thing to a compeltley different thing

lol but its kool that it did, i think that you would go much farther in graphics than you would have on CSM.

but like i said earlyer, i think it is essental for someone to go through a few websites before having a trule sucesfull website and it looks like everyone here has

and its awsome! anywho

JOhnny, i am totaly in love with your site, i mean i always knew your graphics were awsome and i am sitting here listening to your music and i dont want to leave

good choice!!

Plenoptic

Sep 26 2006, 10:06 PM

egymen

Sep 26 2006, 07:23 PM

Hmmm well my site is not really done yet

Johnny

Sep 24 2006, 10:43 AM

Interesting topic.

Well, "my" site has been a LOT of different things, from a pokemon info site to a phantasy star online clan, but I guess I can just start from when I joined t17.

When I joined I originally planned to make a gaming forum [hence the name plusone.trap17.com, sort of like 1up] but I got bored with that because nobody was interested. Then I turned it into a blog, to talk about random stuff in my life. Then I got into graphics design [one of the major reasons I am staff/was admin here on trap17] and wanted to do a graphics forum, but that idea quickly died out. So I then added a sort of gallery to my blog to show off all my sigs and such.

I bought a domain [and got 5 .info for free with it] somewhere during that time, so the new address is brooksrockett.com [brooks rockett being my name]

Just recently, three or four days ago, I remodeled my site, and now the main section is still a blog [although I haven't had time to post anything substantial] with some contact information, and there's a new flash-based portfolio section behind that to serve as a gallery and a potential "resume".

I think this is the way it's going to stay for a while [aside from a few visual changes], unless I find something a little more fitting.

Personally I'd rather still have the portfolio as a part of the blog, but the flash-based portfolio looks and feels much nicer, has better effects, and music that stays on while you're looking through the images.

special

Sep 24 2006, 07:17 AM

I had my first page years ago, it was on a asp host, athlo I dident knew how to create asp files. I yust used the service for html files

It had a 100mb / 1 gig bandwith. It was really nice for that time. Altho back then I even had bandwith problems it was my first site build in clan type.

After that I started multipull sites and creating over the years, mostly personal or for frends busnisses. I realy loved what I did. Then I learnd some more etc. Recently am using php mysql. Its yust the future of the websites and in the end every 1 will start using it. Well if they wanna learn it I gues.

But even newb admins can eassy install a php / mysql site no expert or whatever needed for it. And stil some ferms keep using html funny. Well my first was a clan site. My 3 sites after where personal sites. After that I created 3 busniss sites in xhtml and dhtml.

Then I started to create forums for my own clan uses or community. And I mostly used dhost.info xthost.info and fsphost.info that admin is a frend of mine so ofiusly I used it. Great service altho he's a bizzy man with free hosting instant space etc so the service on dhost isent as great as here. But the html offers of him are stil great non the less.

Used it about 3 years. Now am trying 2 setup my own network of free mmorpg / rpgs games. Why? a frend came 2 me and ask me if i wanted 2 create games / host them with a team. Well I said I can give it a try and well here we are my sites on and my game servers:)