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The Toybox tutorial

Tuesday, April 29, 2003

Galleries Update:
+ 5 images to Tomoyo & Sakura Manga gallery
+ 21 images to Manga Sakura gallery (some replacing smaller versions)
+ 1 to Syaoran
+ 9 to Sakura anime gallery
+ 2 to Tomoyo & Sakura anime
+ 4 to Group anime gallery
+ New Sakura & Syaoran Anime and Manga Gallery
Compressed any images over 150ko & checked for broken links

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How I make the galleries
a) to screencap: virtual dub + gadwin print screen
b) to watermark: picture shark
c) thumbnail or sharpen images: easy thumbnails
d) reduce or convert images: 20/20
e) to compress JPG images: open in paint & save (reduces up to 50% without loss of color)
All these programs are freeware & can be found with a search at google or tucows.com

How to:
Name your images 00 to 100
Have a ready made txt file with HTML images 0 to 9 (add the > & <)
a href="0.jpg" img src="t0.jpg" border="0" /a [...] a href="9.jpg" img src="t9.jpg" border="0" /a
Then copy & paste that again & again & add numbers 0-9 in front of those: to go from 00.jpg to 99.jpg
Make thumbnails with easy thumbnails (choose prefix "t")
Put all into the same folder: Images, Thumbnails & HTML
There! You have your ten minute thumbnail gallery!


Personal
Havn't been sleeping too well recently..guess its the heat ^^;
Joanna is Happy & maybe going to a party this weekend,we got to chat this week once on a little Private chat i had made..it was freaky knowing she's on the other side of the world & all
i mean yeah its the same with the phone but i guess the phone has lost that novelty for me & it kinda hit me suddenly that where she was it was light & where i was the moon was high ^^;
Suppi is getting fat from eating a bit of whatever i'm eating...this lunchtime the lucky mouse had two noodles, a few peas & a little piece of chicken ^^;
She is terribly tame (i think i must be "the food provider" for her as she runs out everytime i put my hand in the cage ^^) & seems to think i'm as much "home" as her cage as she falls asleep in my hand on on my desk.
Tommy & Mushy have taken to this strage kind of combat which involves grabbing each others neck & rolling on your back still holding each others neck..very strange..they do this ritual about ten times a day as well as a new bad habit..sneezing to say hello *eeww*
Mom is still in england & Dad and I are getting on OK...we had um what could be called pasta today it was like jelly ^^;; poor dad he he he. I wish i was well enough to cook for him.
& Me? I'm trying to chill..get the site fixed up so i can start creating again, layouts & wallpapers or start replying to emails & signing tons of guestbooks *grin*
Decided i want to learn PHP later this year cuz its very useful...need to master html first ^^;
Um off to get some sleep ^^
Huggles everybody
Plug to:
Kira's Current Cool Fanfic : Bishies without shirts ^^!
Halo: who's changing her site to Cherry Essences
Holly who is such an encouragment & who draws kirei & kawaii fanart
Arian & BB (Simone) (need to find the links ^^;)
gtg go (phone ringing ^^;)
huggles

Ep 50 stills: Sakura Syaoran & the invisible threads

New affy: Piggy Hoho (this guys fan art is very very kawaiii & was an inspiration to make a CCS site!)

Birthday prezzie from Eevetta *thankies & huggles*

Huggles to everyone
*still dopey*

New Screencaps (Ep51, 52 & 53: approx 200 images)
There are now only four episodes to go & the third season will be screencapped in full
I would then like to screencap the Movie 1 ^^ (<3 that movie *sugoi*)
Please let me know if you see any rude pop ups on the Screencaps host
& i'll try & find somewhere new...I think freewebs offers 100Mo..Halo do you know if they have bandwidth restrictions?
^^; I'm off for a nap..i'm like Yukito at the moment bobbing off at all times ^^;;;;;
Mega kawaii huggles to you all
Special Huggles to Kira, Halo, Dennis, Casdi, Holly & Arian (@@ i still havnt replied to your emails i'm so sorry) & you nice visitor!!
*yawns & shakes head* ack i'm so dopey

waiiii BB is back and is known as Simone! ......BB CCS!........


umm *yawn*...oh! @@
i forgot to include this:
Ep 51. "Sakura and the gigantic bear"

Ep 53. "Sakura and the panicked bicycle"

byee & huggles
*rubs eyes like a baby bear*
see you later


Saturday, April 26, 2003

New Screencaps:(about 150 images)
Ep 54. "Sakura and the calendar of memories"
Ep 55. "Sakura in wonderland"

That brings us to a grand total of 95Mo of screencaptures...17 out of 24 episodes completed
I have already signed up for a second account with Ifrance to store more screencaps so stay tuned!
As much fixing has been done around the site this week, i should have some spare time (if nothing breaks down ^^;;;) to screencap some more & have them ready for next weekend!

Mega Kawaii Huggles
ps: To Kira:
All the way thru Ep54 I kept thinking of the Fic "Nadeshiko" & how things all fitting in so neatly as if i knew more than they actually say in the show! *Waii huggles Kira for her great ficcy*

I'm screencapping ep 54 right now (Sakura & the calendar of memories-Nadeshiko's Bday)
& i'm pretty sute that they didnt use the same artists as usual..the eyes are different & the way she moves different too..at times its like looking at a doujinshi!
I wonder, i wonder.
anyone got any info on this?

The shading & cell art is very like esclaflowne & the noses longer, pointier, biggers eyes, less detail in the backgrounds...the Chibi's are even cuter *waiii*
Its strange i hadnt noticed before ^^;;

Well i'm halfway thru screencapping (viewing it frame by frame) so see yaz later

listening to Don McLean: Wonderful Baby (I gotta make a layout bout this one *kawaii*)

Lyrics

Wonderful baby livin' on love
the sandman says maybe he'll take you above,
up where the girls fly on ribbons and bows,
where babies float by, just counting their toes.

Wonderful baby nothin' but new,
the world has gone crazy, I'm glad I'm not you.
At the beginning or is it the end? It goes
in and comes out and starts over again.

Wonderful baby livin' on love the
sandman says maybe he'll take you above,
up where the girls fly on ribbons and bows,
where babies float by, just counting their toes.

Wonderful baby I'll watch while you grow. If
I knew the future you'd be first to know.
But I don't know nothin' of what life's about, Just as long as you live, you'll never find out.

Wonderful baby, nothin' to fear.
Love whom you will, but doubt what you hear.
They'll whisper sweet things to make untrue. So be good to yourself, that's all you can do.

You're a wonderful baby livin' on love
the sandman says maybe he'll take you above,
up where the girls fly on ribbons and bows,
where babies float by, just counting their toes...


Friday, April 25, 2003

The Polls are now hosted at Tripod (not by Bravenet anymore)

I'm starting to like PHP scripts (not that i can write any *lol*)
But the Guestbooks, Oekaki, Polls & Sakura web are powered by PHP now & it makes site stuff so much easier! (i dunno what'll do if Tripod goes down though @@)

Huggles to everyone
I've fixed all the broken links on Tomoyo & Capture My Heart *phew*

more huggles

+Made & gave an award to Joyce of Quatre.lookscute.com
+Added 5 easter awards & new affy award to my awards section

Working on:
Fixing bugs round the site
Checking for any broken links
KSN - automate
Replying to emails ^^!

Listening to
Tatu:30 mins & scream-fly-dream
Various Thrillseekers Remixes
<3 <3 <3 kazaa lite

Thursday, April 24, 2003

Resized the site dimensions slightly
Added new adoptees
Added toybox link to the splash page
Moved reviews link to sitey
Added a new link to Xepha's CCS site (french)
Sent out the Newsletter about sakuraweb to my mailing list (to be added to the mailing list just email me - saffyATsuppiDOTnet)

huggles to everyone
off for a nap

Wednesday, April 23, 2003

Media section back up!
All files are hosted at prohosting.I hope it will work & be relativly stable
Huggles to everyone
*off to phone her lil sister*

1 2 3 4
he he he

As the title says ^^;
brings the image section to 80Mo (not counting special images & screencaps)

Tuesday, April 22, 2003

Where do i start...

I have a new site 'baby' its a little listing for all CCS/CC sites
It's a tentative to track down all the Sakura sites out there
so people can go to the listing & see all CCS sites
Add your site & tell others!

The idea came from those listings (like cherrysoda) & from me always popping over to Michaels Faves to see what new affies he might have & if they in turn link on to new sakura sites ^^;

I had been adding them by hand to my links section but then i found widgyguest a freebie php script thats very very easy to edit..& i was obsessed with editing a particular Tomoyo picture ...it was going to be for the Tomoyo fanlisting but i couldnt wait & besides it looks lovely where it is ^^!
Tomoyo-chan is so pretty ^^.

I have been trying to get down the bottom of my inbox but its full again (30 to deal with)
sorry if i havnt replied to you yet *sweatdrops*

I got an email from Draco which i took sometime to work out as it was a IM convo (i didnt twig at first & thought what on earth is this?!!!) anywayz he was upset at the way Anti-Hentai is worded so i polite-ned it down a bit...i also added a background for a bit of depth
(by the way if you still have linked it to boomspeed: please remove them & use the short url as its unreliable)

Bye bye huggles to Kat who is closing down her site "Sakura Dreams"

Special thankyou's to everyone who sent easter greetings or friendship emails!
I will get back to you real soon

mega kawaii huggles
huggles to Kira butterfly
*buzzy bee*

Monday, April 21, 2003

I hope everyone had a happy easter
Hope you are not all on chocolate hangover ^^!

I did not get to update yesterday but there were updates =p
-A ton of new links
-Joined three CCS fanlistings & am thinking of creating a Tomoyo Fanlisting
-New Affiliate: Cardcaptors Cosmos
-Fixed the Quizzes

Working on:
the media section


Friday, April 18, 2003

New BlingBlingie Maker (blinkiemakers)
New Hunt the Easter egg (look for the bunny icon!) (mainsite) Thankies Kirabutterfly for the idea
Sent out another easter egg piccie to everyone on my mailing list (i'll put it up here tomorrow)
Made a layout for the Helsbels.net contest
um that's it *lol*
i think tommorow will be a day off
huggles to everyone


Its good friday - Jesus got killed this time 2000 years ago *sob sob*
I can't believe the nicest guy who ever lived got killed in the dirtiest & most horrible way
But for those of you who don't know yet...it ends well, he comes back to life, three days later ^^!
There is a point to it: why do you think the son of God would let himself get crucified? for fun?
nope its the rules:the way the world was made: all our sins: lies & nastiness equal death penalty in the rules...only one clause, only one way out... only if someone totally innocent pays the price instead of us..& that's what Jesus did.
Would you die instead of your friend to save his life? I don't know if i'd dare sometimes but jesus did.
If only for that its worth checking him out...just read one of the gospels (it'll take you an afternoon) this easter & find out about this guy that so many people around the world celebrate to the point of going to church each week, having two holidays: easter & xmas & even having our calendar before & after christ! Yeah impressive if it was just some nice guy who just died 2000 years ago...maybe this guys more than people make him out to be...
see yaz

Thursday, April 17, 2003

ok ok so i'm crazy...
80 pages of fanfics..now all in HTML, stylesheets & SSI now back up on my website
might seem like nothing's changed to many if you, as those eighty pages used to be at diaryland,
but it was about four hours work @@

Other news:
Mom is making hot cross buns
She did it late so we have choice between hot dinner or hot cross buns (because of space in the oven ^^;)
Guess what we chose ^^! *yummy yummy*

Mega huggles to everyone

Updates: (got distracted ^^)

New Heart Blinkiemaker (very simplistic & a bit ugly ^^;)
-http://blinkie.suppi.net

Joined a few site listings
-see splash page "joined"

Wednesday, April 16, 2003

New Affy:
Cherry Sakura!

New:
Info Section:In depth Character profiles (8 so far) & other info sections spell-checked & revised
Fun Section:How To Draw Kero

*SLG* To do list:
Put the movie stills somewhere ^^;
Publish the fansection in HTML
Publish the Episode summaries in HTML
Add new Images & screncaps
Start up some interactivity again ^^!
Oh & i must make an easter prezzie ^^;;;
hum & check how many of my affies are still around *ponders*

For the interactivity thing: How about a contest?
These are ideas i've had for a contest to come soon:Yes we will have a contest but after the MNS contest as i want everyone to join in there too ^^!
Categories:
Spooky sakura stories, wedding dress fanart contest, best CCS pixel, Image editing: make a sakura picture look like a famous music album...what do you think? sounds fun ! hey hey!

Huggles to Kira for her Kero-chan angel mouse present *thankies thankies*
Huggles to Pyoko-chan & all the wonderful Oekaki artists.

I've Been a Learning how to use PSP
& maybe soon i'll spawn tons of cute buttons
hmm maybe not too much fixing work to do ^^;
anywayz see you later no updates today...yet!

Monday, April 14, 2003

There are now *goes to count* twenty eight (yup 28) tutorials at

WEBBIE


Most have been revised & updated (i know better now ^^)
New: How to Chmod, How to Use Notepad & The beginners guide to site building.
There & it's all HTML now..no more Trellix web site builder

This week the plan is to convert & update the image factory as the buttons are really fuzzy & ugly
& then maybe we will move in at Helsie's domain (she has saved some place for me ^^)

Lots of things going on at the Anti-Hentai Guestbook
with some interesting comments

Some new awards for easter too! *happy happy*

wishing you a lovely day or a good nights sleep whatever time zone you are in

ps: Kero-chan was given a princess funeral & was floated down the river in a blue "Angel" perfume box.
Suppi has been in the mouse wheel all day, i think she might be trying to 'find' her lost friend
we are going to get a new companion for Suppi mouse later this week

Sunday, April 13, 2003

First of all the business news:
I have now made 22 tutorials into HTML (reviewed, updated, corrected)
there are five left to go & i left the hardest to the end *baka saffy*

I'm concentrating on getting webbie fixed, condensed & ready that way it will be easier to update & will cause me less hassle ^^;

Real visible published updates: zilch !
apart from a few source code changes here and there
and two new links (Cute.ness & CCS Guild)

Personal news:
Joanna seems to be having a fun time since she got to bed at 4am last night ^^;

Sad news:
This lunch time when i went to table, there was a fluffy thing lying next to my chair
I got very upset because it was Kero-chan my new mouse...
She has been posthumously named Supermouse for managing to jump out of the cage (20 cm)
i would of never thought it possible..but i had seen her jump high before but not put two & two together...
by examining & following little mouse poo trails we managed to work out that the mouse had jumped from the wheel out onto the top of the cage & from there onto the table & from there onto the floor

I don't know if it was jumping 1.50m to the floor or being licked like a baby pup by Mushy the labrador that killed Kero-chan...
Its really sad & i was a bit stunned (mainly amazed that the silly critter managed to get out ^^; i mean i thought through that choice of cage so carefully)

Suppi-chan is ok...we are going to get him another friend to cuddle next to as he's a very friendly mouse.

I didn't have time to get to know Kero the super mouse very well yet but its still a little bit sad =(
Huggles to everyone who has had & lost a pet


Saturday, April 12, 2003




You are Li-su!

Find out Which Chinese Maiden you are.






You are Hyzenthlay!

Find out Which Watership Down Character you are.

Friday, April 11, 2003

This is what my desktop looks like right now

i'm gonna remove it tho cuz i want something pastel & soothing!

Here is the desktop for you to download:
Huggles

I've been working on webbie.suppi.net
Not much seems to have changed but the main section is now all in Pure & simplified HTML *sweatdrops*
It has a new guestbook & all the 'Link back to me' HTML codes have been changed
I'm working on new tutorials & clarifying the old ones
It's a lot of work so i don't expect to have finished by the end of this month
I decided to put the websites straight before i start anymore created (well i'll try & keep that resolution ^^;)
New tutorials to be published: How to Chmod, Beginners guide to making websites, How to use Notepad for coding...

Huggles to everyone
*Busy*

Repairing the website!
I'm fixing all broken links today all over the network
huggles

Thursday, April 10, 2003

I have just fixed all the guestbooks (remotely hosted images)
-Tomoyo GB now is an I-frame
-I'm considering hosting my own guestbook for Webbie (because dreambook only keeps 150 entries)
-The guess what the characters are saying games are now back up

Huggles to everyone

By the way for those who are wondering:
Images are hosted at villagephotos.com
The Blog was not made by me (only the template)...
Its from Greymatter (see link below) requires FTP & Chmod knowledge & a CGI-bin

Wednesday, April 9, 2003

Sometimes I wonder if i knew what i was letting myself in for when i started this website:

I've been fixing my info section & trying to write profiles...
but come on its just begging for a headache...

26 Characters
56 Clowcards
70 halfhour Episodes + two movies (even Fushigi Yuugi isnt that long)
@@

Well so far: i have the ep lists, card lists & character lists.
25/70 ep summaries, 7/26 profiles, & i dropped the in depth card section ages ago ^^;

I think i'm gonna bribe people to make episode summaries *he he he*
see how the interview a character worked at Capture My Heart...
This time double the awards & free goodies & my eternal gratitude & the keys to my car..um i don't have a car
oh well!

That was my Rant of the day ^^;

In rational terms:
Projects for the next months:
Finish Third season screencaps: 15 down 9 to go
Finish Episode summaries: 25 down 45 to go
Finish Profiles: 7 down 19 to go
Get some sleep
Give out some huggles
Reply to some emails
Avoid going mad ^^; =p


Huggles to everyone
*Baka*

Dreambook only stores 150 entries
Dreambook doesn't store images i have to remotly host them at boomspeed but boomspeed won't allow that anymore so...

I have set up a new PHP guestbook at tripod (where the oekaki is)
NEW GUESTBOOK

Let me know what you think!
I'll put up the old one somewhere so ppl can see it too !
Mega kawaii huggles

Hi!
I've decided to move to netfirms & use greymatter as my old blog wasnt showing up any images & it was really ugly ^^;
There is now a redirection at the old page to the new.
Anyone who wishes to have my Haloscan.com Blog commenting account (very rare now ^^) please email me.
I gonna move the Archives from the old blog onto this server too so you will be able to access them here (that is if you can be bothered to read two year old news *grin*)

Episode 55 Screencaptures now up:
Sakura In Wonderland
Enjoy!

Huggles

Tuesday, April 08, 2003

The Blog & Updates has moved...
Blogger was wonderful but I now wish to host my own blog using Greymatter!
You will be redirected to the new page in a few seconds.
You can also click here


Monday, April 07, 2003

New Episode 56 screencaptures (94 images)
Kero & Suppi's first meeting ^^!
Huggles

New wallpaper of Tomoyo
I'll probably be moving this blog & updates to Netfirms soon
The remote image hosting issue is a big problem!
huggles


Sunday, April 06, 2003

New wallpaper of Syaoran in the wallpaper gallery
All the remotely hosted images are down because of boomspeed
If you know of anyone who could host 1Mo of images for me (for the guestbooks & the blog - no other direct linking) please let me know...maybe i should just host my own blog & updates *grin*
I FTP more often than i blog so it would be no problem..i'll look into intalling greymatter at Netfirms
Huggles to you all
Huggles to Kira *they are wonderful episodes ne? I love Keroberos in ep58, he is just too funny ^^!*

New today:
screencaps!!!
That's about 250 images or 15Megs
Huggles & Enjoy!
Feel free to use on your websites just link me in your credits


Friday, April 04, 2003

Kero & Suppi's Hangout dismantled & put on hiatus.
(basically everything has moved to the main site)
I have no intention of stopping making CCS sites only i'm going to make this site clearer & easier to update bit by bit.

Two new wallpapers to the wallpaper gallery!
Hidden Angel dedicated to Kira
Aishiteru was for the MNS Valentines contest (but its probably not qualified as its not original art ^^;)
I'll try & draw something later this month for the contest ^^!
Are you gonna join in?



Thursday, April 03, 2003

Alter-ego dismantled & put on Hiatus
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
New game: Ask Yue
New Adoptions: Yukito + Yue
New Splash images to Webbie - Graphics Factory
and so on ...

New Awards section for 2003 *^-^*