The Pre-Launch Archives:

Gyokuran- November 17th, 2002 @ 12:50 pm

Wow, haven't worked on the site for a long time, over 2 months. Probably because of all the problems with trying to get the main page up. Well now I'm back at it, and I think I have found a host. I've been reading a lot of a web comic called Pokey The Penguin which is bizarre, and quite funny once you get in to it. I have also been reading a lot of Real Life Comics which is (dare I say it?) better than 8-bit. The site was a mess when I opened it up again. For some reason all the image paths were dead. Well now I've got 3 of the pages fixed.

Gyokuran- September 8th, 2002 @ 8:37 pm.

Man I have been working hard. Got most of the pages built, but they don't have all the content. We are probably going to put this on a Geocities page, but the screen savers were talking about some free sites that give you lots of MB space... only catch is you need to know alot of html to do it. Hopefully we will eventualy get hosted by game spy network. I think our site is good enough, I hope they do to.

Anyways, Enhasa has playable character art, and wall paper. Pierre's Notepad is updated, and the End of Time is up.

Gyokuran - September 8th, 2002 @ 7:00 pm.

I solved the layout problems, and have at least one file type of each wall paper up. Im going to wait on the other formats untell we get hosted. 18 800 by 600 pics of jpg, png, and gif formats take up quite a bit of space ; )

Gyokuran - Sepember 8th, 2002 @ 4:00 pm.

I finaly got dreamweaver working, and I reformated my hard drive. finaly doing something for the site. Im updating the wallpaper's section. Atualy Im creating it sence Xander hasnt yet. Lots of wallpapers, and they are in many formats, at least there will be once I finish. I cant wait to get this on the web. Its going to be hard to get this ready with school now in. But well manage. None of my classes give me home work so Ill probably be doing most of the updateing form now on.

Xander, August 13th, 2002 @ 10:22 pm.

Whoopee. I sat down and did another whole three minutes worth of work on the site. I added Tip of the Week and Miscellaneous Groundbreaking news to the right. But we are closer to getting the site posted. Even though I've done maybe twenty minutes of work so far the entire summer. (Damn.) And we have less than a minth left till school starts again. I wanted to get the site posted before the end of the summer. Argh! If Noah and Cory don't do something, I will beat them with my handy dandy mop! I've done every ounce of work so far. (Figures.) And to make things worse, I still haven't figured out the friggin' poll!!! You'd think they'd have something in dreamweaver or something where you could click a button and *wham!* a poll magically appears. But no... So I think I'll just see what all you visitors can do. Maybe even code me a poll with some instructions for me, so inept at html. Plus, I gotta make signatures for all us spiffy staff members. Well, until next time.

Xander, July 7th, 2002 @ 12:24 pm

Well, I just updated a small bit for the first time in several epochs. (Sorry, couldn't resist.) I worked a whole three minutes on the Enhasa section. Got the place ready for some character art. I am getting awfully frustrated with this poll thing too. Our site can't go up without a freaking poll. It just wouldn't be right. *Sigh*. Well, I'm gonna go now, and maybe I'll just e-mail one of the big sites asking for help on that damned poll.

Xander, June 23rd, 2002 @ 11:48 am06/23/2002 - 11:48am

I put all of the buttons up for all of the sections finally. I have some cool ideas for the buttons though, so I might have to change them again. But I also changed the POTW button, and made it worth looking at. Ah, this site will be sooo cool when we finally get it up. I also compiled a list of goals before we put the site up. But GAH! I STILL don't know how to make a poll! Polls are important! We must have a poll!!! Other than that... I sketched us all some charicatures for representation of ourselves on our site. The Staff section will go up soon. Probably the whole Pierre's Notepad section. I even thought of a really cool idea for sections that are down. Tell ya about it when I get that up. Until then.

Xander, June 16th, 2002 @ 7:06 pm

I put all the buttons back how they were. I think I'll just make them each a section, then have a note there if it's down. That way we won't have to update every single page when we have to advertise that a section is up.

Xander, June 16th, 2002 @ 12:06 am

Well, today I made a pretty collage for the top of the page. It looks pretty good too. I also just made a button that will take you to the Poll of the Week. But I still need to get the poll to work!!! Hopefully I CAN figure it out...

Xander, June 16th, 2002 @ 11: 53 am

I'm still here. And I can't believe twenty minutes just flew by! But anyways, I fixed some stuff in the walkthrough, and I posted all of the down section buttons. I also made the title of the poll all bold. Ooh... pretty... Anyways, if I can get up early enough in the morning, I'll take a shower, then make a picture collage for up top...

Xander, June 12th, 2002 @ 11:33 am

Well, I finally posted Part 1 of the walk through. But I still don't know how to process the poll results. Bleh. Other than that, I like the way the site is coming along. I just have to remember now what sections I still need to make buttons for. Oh well. It's getting late, so I'll hit the sack for now. But I'll change the buttons for the down sections first.

Xander, June 11th, 2002 @ 8:04pm

Woohoo! I figured out the first half of poll-making. All I need now is to be able to process the form. (That may help a little.) Then I'm going to make some spiffy poll graphics. But I'm going to take a break from the webpage-making thing for now...

Xander, June 11th, 2002 @ 7:39 pm

Well, I added these nifty little news dividers. I also made more buttons. Still need to figure out the poll thing though. And I need to find something to fill that big, crappy empty space up top. Hmm, well, I'm going to do a search on how to do polls... and counters.

Xander, June 11th, 2002 @ 7:39 am

Hehe. I took a bunch more screenshots for the other buttons. Once I finish all twelve buttons, then I'll move on to actually adding content. I also need to figure out how to make a poll.

Xander, June 10th, 2002 @ 10:07 pm

I updated the buttons. Added drop shadows. Makes the buttons look a hell of a lot cooler. I think this is the final button-appearance update. I also decided upon a font. For now. I'll use this Arial font. Looks pretty good, and everybody has it.

Xander, June 10th, 2002 @ 6:10 pm(?)

Well, I've finally got the Nav bar to work. See! On the left! Admire the pretty buttons! Move your cursor over them, see them indent! Boy am I proud. I may get this webpage thing down yet... Now to find a good font.