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Site history, specs, and general information


I took the names "ecomancer" and "Andorus" from the cartoon The Pirates of Dark Water. Ecomancers come from the island of Andorus and have the ability to control nature; Tula, the main female character and one I have a lot of admiration for, is one. I'm also fascinated by the natural world, and enjoy fantastic and imaginative things, so it was fitting.

This site started as Sailor Andorus's Anime Links on GeoCities the summer of 1996, and slowly grew and evolved, taking on the name Andorus's Hideaway, moving to Xoom and then to Tripod, before I finally opted for paid hosting and my own domain, to have my own "safe haven" and an individualized "niche" online to do my own thing without space/advertising restraints. I bought ecomancer.net via Dotster and signed up for hosting with Web Site Source, on January 7, 2002. I switched hosts to Myacen on May 31/June 1, 2002, and hosted with them until August 28, 2004, when, thanks to a friend's recommendation, I switched to JaguarPC, and moved my domains from Dotster to GoDaddy.

This layout features a photo from my time on the JET Programme, taken while on a walk through my town along the Yoshinogawa, the longest river in the prefecture. I lived from 2005 to 2007 in Tokushima Prefecture on Shikoku, in the Japanese countryside, in a true hideaway if ever I saw one! The layout uses Perpetua for the graphics and Verdana and Georgia for the text, as well as MS Gothic's Japanese lettering. It's constructed in standards-compliant CSS and XHTML, with a touch of JavaScript, and should work reasonably in recent versions of Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer.




Where else you can find me

Other sites where I've got some content