Many things have changed since I first created this site. I don't even remember exactly when I first upload this site. I just remember that it is in September 1998.

SITE'S NAME
This site was called Holy Knight's Sailor Mercury Shrine : Protector of Sailor Mercury before, but because I see some others Sailormercury Shrine use a short and unique name, for example : Reflection, Pure Reflection, Shabon Spray, Rhapsody, Mirage, Lake of Illusions, so I was planning to change it to Waterfall, but then I see someone already plan to name her/his site Waterfall. So I try to change it to Snowstorm, but because "Snow" is not related to my fav background color : Blue, so I was thinking about another name. Finally, I found it, and changed my site's name to Rainstorm in August 1999.

DESIGN
I already change my many times. My first design, well, you probably guess, is really ugly. At first, I don't care about my design as I was just planning to focus on my purpose (I'll explain it later). Then I see many sites have a very good design, that sites inspired me to fix my design. So I made a second design, the menu is on the left side, with a background of Ami looking sad. Then I realize that the second design looked stupid if you see it in higher screen resolution, especially in 1024 x 768. Again I change it to a new design. After sometimes, I got bored of that design. Then I made another new design. That is what you have seen. I also notice something. In my opinions it looks like that sites that are created by boys/men lack of design (including mine) if you compare it to sites that are created by girls/women.

NUMBER OF VISITORS
At first it is hard to get visitors, may be only 1/day. Then after sometimes I got 7 visitors/day. Suddenly in early July 1999 my site was listed in Yahoo and in surfing the net I submitted my site to Anipike.com and Netscape search engine, thanks to them now I get about 80-85 visitors/day. Highest visitors per day is 180 when my site is first listed in Yahoo. Now, the number of visitors keep dropped and dropped. I don't know why. Is it because people lost their interest to Sailormoon ? Or is because they're bored seeing my site ?

MY PURPOSE
I 've changed my purpose a bit. Now, instead of defending Sailormercury from all ridiculous statement, I'm focusing on providing information to people who're new to Sailormoon. Besides, now people don't care too much about the idea of anti shrines. I wonder if it because the appearance of pro shrines. I also want people to learn more about Sailormercury, because it looks like many people made a bad statement about her without knowing the truth / seeing the whole episodes. And I never want to make my site as the best Sailormercury shrine, I am already happy if people appreciate my works.

RINGS
From September 1998 until Januari 2000, I only become a member of one ring, Ring of Eternal Sailor Moon. But now, I already deleted my rings section since I feel that it is useless in joining rings. 

AWARDS
At first I only get two awards. Then after sometimes since my design and content has changed I email the owner again to ask them whether my site still can receive their awards. Then they reply and explain to me that I can keep it. And in July 1999 I apply in Inner Senshi Star Sites Competition. I saw other sites that have applied too. They really have a good site, so I was guessing that I won't win . I'm really surprised in early August 1999, Inner Senshi Star Sites Competition email me that I won their awards with total score 80, the nearest one to me is another site with total score 77.

CONTENT
At first I only have four section, Mercury's profile, gallery without thumbnails, opinions about her, and links. But as you can see now, my site is growing slowly. I also removed my old board and joined United Mercury Board in August 1999.

EMAIL
Many people have emailed me and tell their comment. Here is what I got since September 1998 :
- Many nice comment about my site. Some of them appreciate my style in defending my favorite character without insulting other characters.
- At least four or five protest (not flame) from one of the Anti Mercury Page creators and her friends. They were protesting one of my section because I listed her comments ( two comments, as far as I remember ) about Mercury in it. I lost in the debate, because it isn't fair, four against one and also, at that time I'm having trouble to explain some of my point of view. Then I remove her comment.
- One protest from someone about "Neptune versus Mercury" section ( I don't consider this as flame too ). She explained that I made my section looks like pointless because of my statement : " There is no use in comparing them.... " but in fact I'm comparing them too. Then I realized that this is my fault and only misunderstanding. I explain her that what I mean is " There is no use in comparing them just to see who is the best senshi.....". Then I quickly update that section.
- One pointless email that I don't even understand what it means. I don't even know if that email related to my Sailormercury Shrine or not.
- Two email asking Sailormercury to reply to them.....??????
- No flame, I think, since I won't easily consider a constructive criticism or protest as flame. I only consider it as flame if it contains bad/dirty language, only insulting my site and also rude.

Guestbook
You can read people's comment about my site by yourself. Just go to the main page and click the guestbook link. Usually most of them express their happiness seeing a Sailormercury shrine and how much they like Sailormercury.

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