It's been a long rigorous process and very time consuming to say the least.
The concept originally started sometime in 2000. Hard to say exactly when, but
I imagine somewhere in the middle of the year. I had a concept early on, and I had a vision
of what I wanted to set out to do. It was the HTML, graphics, and all the other labor
involved that kept helparena's birthdate pushed back over and over again.
The concept has remained the same over a year later, and as I sit back and look
and how helparena has come too, I'm proud to say, the wait was worth it for me (in a sense).
My knowledge of HTML has improved, as well as my graphical endeavours. Also, with the aid
of other HTML guru's, I've found a domain and webhost that I can finally call home.
As with most things... it IS a work in progress. Helparena started out in simple text format
on a geocities account I had. It never saw the light of day as I was just learning and testing
what I knew of HTML at the time. A little bit later, I came across an even better free hosting service.
Hypermart. And thus, helparena got some daylight
and some visitors!!! Shocking I know! Well, in it's early conception, it got good reviews on the basis
of what the site was to be about. The graphics and HTML coding are another story.
I can't say how many concepts, or incarnations I've had, or even come up with, but I can say
that it is many more than what I've talked about here. It's just that they either didn't make it to a
coding or graphic concept yet, so it's not even worth mentioning other than that I had MANY ideas
floating around at the time.
And now we come to late 2001. Helparena is showing vasts signs of improvement from it's other early forms.
Not only in my HTML coding, but in the graphics and in the layout itself. I'm a very artistic person, and I wish
I could run a T3 line to everyone's house, office, or apartment because I would REALLY love to add
all sorts of finesse, and flashy graphics. But I think I'll leave that for the next incarnation (if there is a need for it).
So, I leave you with this: Helparena is here for you, and I've enjoyed every moment of it.
I just wish I could find the time, motivation, energy, commitment to make the site move quicker.
By that I mean, I wish I could sit here for 8 hours a day fine tuning it, adding updates, and adding the content.
But at the moment, the spark has not been lit under my ass. So give me time, and I assure you that
in the coming months I will bring you a site that I hope you will frequent and find answers.
Cheers!
-RichmanRush
