The Transformers site got it's own address soon, and was hosted at Freeyellow.com Pretty soon, LS got tired of Freeyellow (about 4 months later), and moved the site to Angelfire, where it was renamed "The Transfanatic Homepage." Then, after problems with HTML programming (LS didn't know anything about it back then) and having trouble trying to learn enough html to fix the problems on her pages, she moved it again.

Freeservers was the next home for the archive, but that only lasted a couple months after serious problems began developing. Updates weren't showing, even though the page had been saved (having to save one's work was rather annoying), and graphic editors weren't doing the trick. So LS downloaded some html pages from Bravenet, and began teaching herself html tags, and what effected what on a web page. Pretty soon, she was programming her own links, and sometimes even clickable pictures.

LS was elated at the new discoveries, and took the knowledge back to angelfire, this time using their layouts, but using an html editor to program her own stuff in combined with it. The Transfanatic Fix was born. LS could now change the size of text, insert pictures, and add her own links. She just couldn't get the hang of lists, though. and the links section suffered several errors. With the dismay of non-displaying images and half-working links, LS got tired of it and threw in the towel. The website sat for 6 months while LS gave up and went on with her life.

Later, after meeting her future husband, LS decided to give the website one more chance. This time, she redid what she could, redesigned the pages, and taught herself a whole new set of programming tags. In the 4 months of summer that year (No, I don't remember which one it was) LS moved the site back to Freeservers, confident it was just the server running slow, and that the updates weren't displaying because the site server hadn't caught up yet.

Besides, with the new programs on her computer that allowed her to view and alter html programming, she could just upload the updated version, right? Well, she decided the Transfanatic Fix sounded to drug-referenced, and not fannish enough, so the site went back to the Transfanatic Homepage. Pretty soon, the problems were back. and uploaded pages weren't replacing the old one. Images hosted by other sites stopped displaying, and LS got really annoyed with it.

Then she went looking, and found freewebs. Yes, freewebs. Easy upload, easy programming, easy site layout. No pop up ads (yay!) only banner ads. In the spring of 2000, the site had been fully uploaded, spanning 20 usernames and addresses, had about 75 toy pics, a huge screencap archive, an encyclopedia with 40 pages of content, pictures, and character profiles, a caption contest and fanficition contest, and a small fanfiction and fanart area. The site was then renamed to what it is today. TransFan Central

Things just kept getting better as LS discovered she could do away with the banner ads by simply uploading html documents to the filing cabinet on the site's host, instead of putting them up as pages. It worked, too. The site was forgotten for a little bit, when she moved into another apartment, and sat on the server for a while. But LS started work on it again in a matter of months.

The site started to have problems. Whenever LS uploaded images or files, the computer she was on would lock up. (or, more specifically, the site would lock up.) it would not go back to the main page or any of the file pages. She literally had to type in the front page address and log back in. And whenever she was in the editor, if she didn't work on a page for 15 minutes, or if she worked on editing a page for more than 15 minutes, if she navigated away from the editor or the current page, it would say her session had expired. This became unbearable whn LS started on the Encyclopedia Cybertronia, which had rather long listings, and after 20 minutes of hard work and programming would go to save the file, and it would log her out, losing all her work.

So, in 2003, she moved the site.

To angelfire.

Yes, again. The space in the name was taken out, and the capital letter in the middle of the name, making it TransfanCentral. And there it sat, being slowly added to, with an ever-growing fanfiction and fanart area, and encyclopedia. Then in 2004 someone mentioned wikipedia, and the Encyclopedia project was dropped. it became a matter of "Why bother if everyone's going to go somewhere else for Transformers information instead of my site?" So she worked on the fanart section. And the fanfiction section. and dreamed of the day when the site would be big like insecticons.com and other popular fansites.

In 2007, that all changed.

On TransfanCentral's 5th birthday, in August of 2007, TransfanCentral finally became a .com address. LS had an email account through Yahoo.com, who was advertising cheap .com addresses. She had been checking for two months beforehand, trying to find someplace cheap. The first 2 times she tried clicking on the link to purchase the .com through yahoo, though, it wouldn't load.

But it finally happened. And LS made BIG plans. Moving plans.

She had allready checked several other site hosts in the past two months, and she had even purchased a .com through a small domain name company, (GoDaddy) which had told her it would take 7-10 days for the money to be pulled from her cash card. When it didn't go through in 2 weeks, she suspected something was up. She called to check her balance on her card, and sure enough. Every penny had been pulled.

She only had $10.00 on the card anyway, and since she had checked her balance 4 times at 50 cents per time, she figured it was only 2 dollars, plus the 6 for the .com

So she called and cancelled, asking for a refund. The company said no problem, it would be back on the card in 48 hours. A week later, four dollars appeared back on the card. Out of ten. oh yes, LS was MAD, let me tell you. It's a good thing the card company had a policy of refunding stolen money. She got all 8 of it put back on the card. The company explained about the 2.00 for charges, and LS accepted it, knowing she could get a MUCH cheaper dot com through yahoo. So she finally went to yahoo, and purchased the dot com almost the exact same day that the site originally started out. Transfancentral was on the net for 3 tyears before it was 'officially' TransfanCentral, but it had been officially for 5 years at the time the .com was purchased.

So LS tried to move the site to Bravenet, loved the layout, the host was nice. Banner ads were small, no big deal. Then she saw the ad for 110MB.com

Ah, too good to be true!! She squeed and went to check it out. Sure enough, no banner ads, no popup ads, and enough sopace to fit everything from the previous 20 or 21 freewebs addresses onto ONE ADDRESS! instead of having 20 MB per address, 110MB.com gives out something like 2 gigabytes of storage space!

So, that's where we are now.

We still love Bravenet. They've been with TransfanCentral as long as we've been on the net. Heck, they were with us back when TransfanCentral was still a personal interest page on LS's personal website. If you ever want to make your website do neat stuff, go there. Trust us.

Guestbooks, message forums, password gates, sitepals, email forms, daily news, polls, horoscopes, personal ads, sales ads (sell stuff on your site with Bravenet!)

trust us when we say Bravenet can make your site jump through hoops if you want it to. :-)

And angelfire was nice, and paying out $7.00 a month to not have ads is pretty cheap, but we couldn't afford it. LS doesn't have income, and Opjettus just couldn't spare the money. By the way, for any beginners who don't know anything about html programming, angelfire has some nice layouts. It's where LS first got the idea for the space layout TransfanCentral now uses on all it's pages. It's not the same one, but it's where she got the idea.

As of August 2007, Transfancentral turned five years old, and in November, Rapage's Girl, one of the site's writers offered to help out with the site. Since Opjettus had been trying to start his photography business, he was no longer helping out, aside from the occasional inpute on what should go onto the site. So, RG went to work checking links for the fanfiction pages, and really helped out! there were several pages that had problems, and certain fanfics that weren't loading. Anyway, LS finally declared RG assistant webmaster. So Transfancentral now has it's first full-time (lol) staff member. (Compared to Opjettus Prime's input once a month, yeah. heh.)

January 21st, 2008: This should probably go into the updates section, but anyways, Transfancentral has regained it's old title! LadyStarscream was working on a new banner for the site (she was sick of looking at the old one, and it's been more than 5 years now, headed for 6, actually) And the old banner had a little star thingie on one corner that said "5 years". The banner didn't look right, so LadyStarscream added under it "the Transfanatic Hompage".

That's right! that was the site's name the very first year we were on the web! Before TransfanCentral was TransfanCentral, it was the Transfanatic Homepage." And now it's back! We still kept our logo with the Autobot and Decepticon symbol and the star behind them, but we've revamped our banner! We're working on images in other places, like the fanfiction section, which had the "5 years" banner that said it was the fanfiction section. heh. But now we've got a banner for all over the site.