The Making of a Website
It began in August of 1998. TsuramiSea'a family had just bought a
computer. TsuramiSea learned to appreciate the many benefits of having a computer: typing up
school projects, drawing pictures with Paint, and most of all, tapping the Information Superhighway. Tons of new knowledge
for the taking! TsuramiSea wanted to be a part of it. So, on a fateful day in January 1999,
TsuramiSea began to make plans for a website during Study Hall at school. It would include
things he thought brought great enjoyment to people, such as video games, cartoons, the worlds
in them, comedy, and most importantly, imagination. It would be a website informative on such
subjects with unusual comedy twists. He hoped that it would make people Super-Happy! Having
played Yoshi's Story, he knew about the "Super-Happy Tree" and decided it would make a great
symbol for his site. He began to draw each individual fruit of the tree and the tree itself,
using a picture in a magazine. It was a grueling task, but he finally put it together and got
his title graphic. Of course, let's go back to that day, only after school. Tsurami (at home)
revised his homepage outline and presented it to Jack and I (we happened to be at his house at
the time). Then he dragged us into it by asking us if we would like to be a part of it. We
said yes. So Tsurami began to create the different sections of his site, figuring out what
content he wanted it to have. He also began to study a HTML programming book that his sister's
boyfriend had lent him. Soon he was building his empire. He drew pictures of Jack and I to
put on the site. He programmed the sections and chose background colors. Soon he was drawing
his favorite cartoon and video game characters for a section on them. He wrote lists of
cartoons and video games by different companies and put them down. He showed off his Pokemon
training status. He wrote weird messages that would appear when a viewer held the mouse over a
link. And he made a news section for important matters. What were Jack and I supposed to do?
We were supposed to provide commentaries throughout the site and have special sections about us
and our thoughts. Jack decided what his content would be rather quickly. I had a little more
trouble, but Tsurami and I talked it over and I figured out what I wanted. You can now see
that here. On February 14, 1999, Tsurami transferred all of his work to a disk he had just
bought. And he continued his work. Around March 21, he began to add links to other sites. (He
didn't really have permission for ALL of them yet, but soon he got permission from their
respective owners.) He had four links. Tsurami also added his mailing address. Close to April
2, Tsurami put in music from "Yoshi's Island" that he got from the Video Game Music Archives.
Then the next day, Jack, TsuramiSea and I wrote our first Yammering. (It's okay for our first
one.) Then, on April 23, Tsurami finished drawing his last picture. All that was left was for
me to finish my page....this stupid section and the "Thoughts" section. And that weekend, April
24 and 25, the site was finally published. So here we are now. Or were. Over the course of
August 1999, TsuramiSea began to update after a long time of no viewer response (okay, ONE
viewer response). He updated all the sections that were to be changed every time we update,
and added a Super NES list of games (in the making). He corrected his Pokémon game release
list for games that had already come out. And a friend of his on #earthbound chat, Hcufo,
viewed the site (after being given the address). He offered to make the Super-Happy Tree
picture transparent. Tsurami sent him the picture, and walah! It was made to be transparent
on the background. Tsurami was ecstatic. And he was even more so when this same Hcufo sent a
picture for the Favorite Characters section, giving the "Your Favorites" section some content
at last. TsuramiSea then updated the whole thing, after pulling it together, on the night of
August 13. It was our first update! It was pleasing. And we hoped to reattract any viewers
that had seen us at first. Now, we had to wait until we gained enough momentum for another
update, in which we'd add some really cool stuff. That time came around the end of 1999 and
the beginning of 2000. Over the course of his holiday vacation, Tsurami made the Sega Master
System game list and Game Boy game list (still in production) for the video game section.
Then, on January 6, 2000, he got a hit counter for the site, something which he'd been meaning
to do but had been too lazy to do. Then on January 7, 2000, he introduced the idea of "guest
hosts" for each update, where a person would help us initiate the update, and join us in
Yammering. Along with some other tidbits, the site updated for the second time on January --,
2000. It was yet another step for the site. This is our computer history. What a dumb thing
we've done. We just hope that you viewers enjoy it.
Go back to my page now.