The site...already one year!

One year has already passed since the launching of the site. I thought that it would be interesting to share with you the various steps which brought it to it's realization.

On September 25, 2004, the biographical text A LIFE, A DESTINY was put in network in my first computer. Then, I concentrated with the writing of the other texts and with the translation in English and Spanish. Two months later, I was ready to start with the French and English introduction pages. During the weeks which followed, Philippe, my technician created links for the files BIOGRAPHY, PHOTOS IN CONCERTS, DEDICATION, WEBMASTER, TV APPEARANCES IN QUEBEC 2000-2004 and RECORDINGS ALPHABETICALLY. For the DISCOGRAPHY BY COUNTRY, we did not succeed in finding a suitable presentation due to the expanse of the file. So, we were satisfied with classification by languages.

In January 2005, we added the COVERS OF MAGAZINES and created a third identical page in Spanish. The first idea while launching my site was to set it up in the three most widespread western languages to present to as many people as possible. Philippe had made a model of the welcome page with my picture.

However, knowing that Nana lived a great part of her career in Germany, I told myself that the fans from this country deserved a space in their language. So, when a friend of mine assured me that he could revise my texts, I decided to launch a 4th page. Even before March arrived, the German section was born.

A link has been created for UNICEF while the files TVs and the Magazines were found in the section MEDIAS. It only remained to find a forum without publicity and a counter for each section. As I don’t have the training of a computer scientist, I had to learn with various technical problems which delayed the setting up online of the site. Time went by and we were only within a few days of the 40th anniversary of Nana’ first visit to Quebec. While hoping to be on time, I created MONTREAL 1965, a flash on the past which makes us understand the origin of Nana’s bonds with this country. On May 4, the site was finally on the Web with the address www.nanamouskouri.qc.ca. During the following days, I carried out the launching by sending 300 emails. I received encouraging messages from fans in several countries. The main Nana’s Websites kindly put a link in a prominent position towards mine.

With these rewards for all this dedication, I know that it is only a beginning, that my site is still to build. If it was mostly in texts, I had to enrich the visual side. Apart  from the files PHOTOS IN CONCERT and MAGAZINES, there were very few photos. During the school holidays, I added more for the biography and especially for the TV file by capturing them from DVD. Several fans let me know about the originality of the shots. For the section LINKS, there was now a visual of each site. Links were created in the CONCERTS page and for the shops, so that it is possible to buy online. It was a summer well filled for the realization of the site.

During the autumn, I elaborated the section MEDIAS with concert reports in Oceania and Asia and by adding the links of the electronic press. The discography by language was enriched with details and the record covers. With more than 500 scans, the site did not have the same look as at it's beginning. To recognise the time of year as it was then, the theme of Christmas was used as an entrance page before yielding its place to a gallery of drawings. A moment of satisfaction well enjoyed! Sometimes, it takes months to finalize a presentation and once it’s online, it is already necessary to think of those which will follow. Thus, all the files to be added monthly are planned until 2008.

Thank you Philippe for your technical support, mom for your tips, Helga, Jim, Albert for your corrections, Kathy for your reports, Céline for your scans, Simone for your drawings. Your invaluable collaboration made it possible to preserve the quality of the site through its transformations. Thank you also to all of you who visit me and who keep me so enthused.