It all started on a cold January morning. I was bored and got on the computer and decided to look for some websites to see what I could find. I came across Green Luigi's Mansion. I clicked a link that lead me to Crazy 4 Yoshis. I was amazed by the site. I went to the site constantly. The site inspired me to create my own. I thought I knew enough about Nintendo and my favorite character, Mario, to get a good start. I soon realized managing a website is harder than it seems. Mt first layout was a disaster. I created it using Yahoo! Geocities Pagebuilder. I soon realized it wasn't a very good layout and changed. I stayed with Pagebuilder because I thought it was easy to use. I use the site that had inspired me so much to create my next layout. It was based off of Crazy 4 Yoshi's layout. I checked my guestbook one day and saw a message about using a layout similar to Crazy 4 Yoshis. I realized that I should have asked permission before making a similar layout. I e-mailed ~*N*~ (NDawg),the webmaster of C4Y. I told him my story and he said he was glad to have someone like his layout that much. I enjoyed yhe layout and was updating constantly. One day I tried to edit the main page but it would not open. I tried over and over again but it wouldn't work. I made a temporary layout until I could fix the problem. The problem was never fixed so I re-created the whole layout, sprite by sprite. I then decided to make all the pages the same instead of just having the home page look good. This layout was great but it was getting hard to update all the pages with Pagebuilder. I then discovere HTML and had Vortex create a layout for me. I liked the layout but it didn't last long. I seemed to have lost my enthusiasm about the site. I left for awhile and went to start another site. This time it was about Luigi. I later realized that I missed Mario Network. I came back and re-opened it. I re-colored the layout Vortex had made and got different graphics. As before, I became bored. I quit updating. One day I went to see how it was doing and found out it was hacked. I was furious. My site that I had put so many hours of work into had been hacked. I knew there was nothing I could do. I tried to get back in the groove of updating the site. I even had MarioTendo create a layout similar to the one I made on Pagebuilder (he made it in HTML). It didn't work. It was not long after that that my home computer got electricuted (April 3, 2006). We didn't buy a computer for eight months. Even when we did buy one we couldn't afford Internet. When we finally got Internet I re-opened the site with the layout MarioTendo made for me (INSERT DATE OF RE-OPENING HERE).