10 Years of Gradius Home World

Why did I start this site?

 

Gradius Home World was originally started because of a flatbed scanner I had just bought from a friend, I scanned the PlayStation game 'Gradius Deluxe Pack' front and back covers and then I put together a simple page in notepad.

Notepad was rubbish so I quickly moved onto Adobe Page Mill 2 for just under two years - Here is the Oldest version of Gradius Home World from my archive.

After a few years or so I move onto Microsoft Frontpage 2000 which was much better (just) and expanded the site, but webspace was at a premium at the time (I only had 5meg!!) so the site contained no media.

In the same year I read a review for Dreamweaver 2 and after looking at a demo I bought a copy, that's when the site really got going and was much easier to update.

After registering the GameStone domain and moving the site to a new host (current host funny enough) things become much smoother with the new host supporting php and mysql, because of these two technology's I was able to add a guest book, poll and phpBB web forum, the guest book became obsolete. after a few months as the forum took over for messages and chat (plus I was getting lots of spam on the guest book).

Fast forward a few years and I changed the forum to the excellent vBulletin and have quite a small active member list now.

The site is maintained by me alone (GameStone), though the forum has become the most active section with the main site only seeing updates few and far between.

Here are some other small screen shots of the site over the years.