Vappy.net was created in October 2003 and has been a placeholder for my personal stuff ever since. Before that, I used free hosts such as Angelfire (*sigh* memories), Geocities, Freeservers, Crosswinds, and well... basically every free site out there XD; (that is, until they became overrun with ads and they reduced the size of bandwidth.)

Aside from the main layout, I also host one fanlisting (Mustard of your D00m) and a Nintendo fansite (The Yoshi Yellow Pages). I also host an Oekaki and Messageboard.

Previous Layouts

These layouts date back to when I first entered the Yoshi community as "Vaporshi" in late 1999. You can see my HTML slowly improving...in a very shameful manner.

Vaporshi's Hangout 1.0 - Augh. Just... augh. This would be the very first layout I created when I joined the yoshi fandom era in '99. This site contained no actual HTML save the text colour and images. Basically, it was a white background with text, although I recall having an annoying tiling banner at one point that read, "Vaporshi's Hangout" in a disgusting font I got from a cheap Suite Program. The scariest part is that I was extremely proud of my work at the time. Please ignore the lamer writing. We were all lamers during one point in our life >>;

Vaporshi's Hangout 2.0 - After abandoning geocities, I made my way to freeservers.com where I edited one of their templates for a sidebar effect. I had no clue how to use tables, and I somehow managed to make this site unavailable to Netscape users. (Something in the html of the template, I guess...) I think I'm ranting about it in the update shown... *squint eyes*.

Vaporshi's Ocean Palace -I soon became bored with the "Hangout" bit, and changed it to "Ocean Palace". I also abandoned freeservers and made my way to crosswinds, which was a decent server at the time (Unlimited space + Unlimited Bandwidth + No Banners + Free = Awesome sauce).  During this time I was RPing rapidly and Vap was currently living in a palace with all her vaporeons, and...yeah. Pretty crummy idea. This layout is gorgeous, so it was obviously not made by me. An old friend of mine known as YoshiGeno was kind enough to whip up a layout for me, and I made the shitty subpages. Crosswinds soon added banners that filled the entire page, and I eventually left when my entire account was deleted due to technical errors.

Vap's Shameless Portal - I was without a website for quite awhile -and had gotten fed up with free hosts, because they screwed me over many a time- when Diskmaster offered to host me at his domain: Disktech. I took up the offer immediately and made a "portal" site that linked to random stuff. I discovered the joy of tables and image maps and abused their existance. As you can see, I did a HORRIBLE job. This website did not last long, and I updated probably once in the few months it existed.

vappy [dot] non-com 1.0 - I discovered CSS, and with the help of Laina and Pink I created an internal-based CSS website. I decided I was tired of website names like, "Vaporshi's ______" and wanted something simple... sooo I called it vappy[dot]non-com, which isn't simple, when I think about it now. The first layout lasted until I up and left Disk's server, and went to my friend (Jeremy)'s host: Eternalvoid.net.

vappy [dot] non-com 2.0 - I quickly settled down at Eternalvoid and decided my site needed to be more "flashy", so I made icons for the sections, and had a cute little rollover thing. When you put your mouse over "Navigation" it would change to "Main". If you clicked said button, it would return you  to the main menu. Unfortunately, Jeremy killed off his server and I was left siteless... again. I decided to wait until I could register my own domain where I'd have complete control.

vappy.net 1.0 - I finally scored myself a domain, and boy was I pleased! XD I used a mixture of CSS and Iframes, although I heard Iframes aren't great for older versions of Netscape. However, I was generally pleased with the layout and everyone I talked to could access it fine. The side image was one of my favourite renditions of Jade, drawn by Lady Laguna. As you can see, there wasn't very much content...which is why I decided to revamp the site and spiff if up.

vappy.net 2.0 - In an attempt to spiff up my site and attract more visitors, I decided to try something new and added screentones and music! Hoorah. It took me an extremely long time to create this layout, and the lack of creativity was almost as bad as the sandwiches I make. This layout existed for a good month or so before I completely demolished it.

vappy 3.0 - It took me awhile to create a layout that could top this one. Despite its simplicity 3.0 is one of my favourite layouts. It was a pain to update the navigation bar though because I had to go through every seperate page. 3.0 was my first time using tones in the background which made loading-time faster.

vappy 4.0 - This layout was okay. I really liked it at first but in order to make it look nice in 800 x 600 and 1024 x 768 I had to make the tables reeeally big which, as you can see, makes it look crappy in large resolutions such as my own. Also, using an image map was a pain because I couldn't make any quick changes to the sidebar without having to open up PSP and edit everything. I was also getting tired of the usual black-on-blue background and wanted to try something new.