The Duck Himself

If you used to browse this pages around a year ago, you'll be wondering about what happened to the old site. Here's a little explanation of the changes made to SoHo 3667, also known in the past as Radio Hell - 666 MHz:

Release 1.0 - Fall 1996

The first web pages I ever coded had a frame layout and a few graphics, to grant good impact and fast use. At the time, the only purpose of the page were my thoughts about music, so I called the page Radio Hell as a quote from Iron Maiden's A Real Dead One cover. Anyway, early enough I got tired of the look of the site (far too simple), and decided to create something more beatiful but still fast to browse.

Release 2.0 - Fall 1996 / May 1997

Radio Hell became a webzine, and also enough successful, since I was not very good at promoting it and still got around 50 contacts for every issue. The layout used tables and was very fast & aestethically perfect, in my eyes (almost a month of trying). I was allowed by some kind magazines to chop pieces of interviews for display on the site (I did it rarely, anyway), and created a Underground Metal section. What can I say? I was really happy with the site, at the time. I also created the My Dying Bride FAQ, which was a bit flawed but after some corrections turned out right (and nice, IMHO).

Release 2.1 - May 1997

If my memory works right, in this period Radio Hell tried a graphic change before the bigger structure change. Anyway, the new graphics were crap, less readable and not much faster (also horrible on the eye side). I was mainly worried about other issues, like my studies, so I started thinking about adding sections so that I had to update the site twice a month but with less contents.

Release 3.0 - Summer 1997

Radio Hell became a section of the bigger Draconia, and was update only once a month, even with the help of a second reviewer. The new sections were very nice, and the logo for the Star Wars RPG netbook was so great that I'll probably try to recycle it at some point; the Star Bowls rules for Blood Bowl were welcomed well by some people, so they are here after all this time. But the problem was: had I enough time to mantain the web? No, I hadn't. I chose to leave it were it was in the hope that someday I could start it again.

The Big Sleep - Fall 1997 / Summer 1998

Release 4.0 - Summer 1998 / Fall 1998

When I browsed again the GeoCities pages looking for my account I was surprised to find the site still there, untouched. Now I had the time, so I started cleaning the web from the webs (yes, it was really bad), and redesigned it from start, using also some skills I developed during the sleep. The work took more than two months, but it was worth the effort; the only flaw was speed and using FrontPage, that created the worst code ever saved on my computer.

Release 4.1.9 - Present State

The new version I'm creating (still to be uploaded as I'm writing) is impressive. Massive JavaScript support (come on people, there's no one still running without it), graphical interface tweaked to my best (nice and fast, I hope), lots of sections that will be completed in the next month (that means that the "complete" site, as far as websites can be completed, will be called 5.0). I changed a lot of things from the last update, recreated the file structure (thanks to Geocities using directories). The full site will probably fill over 50% of my web space, and that means 6 or 7 megs of material for the users, with only a 30% of it needed to browse the site (i.e. 70% is downloadable data). See you soon, people.