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Recent Updates:

Mar 2000 Added new pictures to the Albums section.
Feb 2000 Opening of the personal homepage of Horace Chan.
  Jan 2000 The birth of horace.org, aquried the domain name and sign up with http://www.hostingplans.com for site life-time hosting service.

History of the Macross Site.

 

Version 1.0
I started the Macross Site back in Fall 1995. This is the very first homepage I wrote. It was hosted at the unveristy's CS club. Being a long time addict to the anime serie Macross, I decided to chose Macross as the theme of my homepage. I used frames, Java applets, VRMLs, anim-gifs and many other state-of-the-art visual gimmicks. I also wrote some CGI scripts in C++ for the site, including the guest book and a chat room. The design of the page is considerably messy and amature in today's standard. However for a period of time, the site was an technology show room in the internet. The site is hand-coded using Textpad, a text editor.

 

Version 2.0
In Summer 1997, I designed to give a completely new look to the site. After 2 years, the old design was showing its age. The new layout looks more professional and is more user-friendly. New sections are added, such as macross gallery, music collection and a javascript shooting game, Operation Minmay. The Macross Internet Directory made this site has highest number of visits among all CS club websites. In early 1999, I mirrored the site at unspacy.net for about half a year. The unspacy.net was closed for now due to the limit of resources.

 

Version 3.0 (horace.org)
Macross Site is renamed to horace.org in the new millenium. I'll gradate from university this may and I foresee the need of having a permenant email and web address of my own, hence I acquired the horace.org domain in Dec 1999. The layout and content of site is re-designed to utilized new IE5 features. The site is created using Macromedia Dreamweaver 3. At this moment, the site is far from complete. I'm looking forward to the launching of the site in near future.

Planned Improvements:
- Music collection of all my Macross CDs in mp3 format.
- Implement new database engine for the Macross Internet Directory
- Rewrite Operation Minmay for IE
- Complete Mactris with the features I originally planned back in 1997