Final Fantasy World actually started around 2003, with a rather bad layout and some simple FFVII content. The Webmistress was my sister, Deep, who was known as Kairi, Ukiya (Yukiya) or Dizzy back then. I was just the content writer. FFW was inspired after many months of playing FFVII and researching information on the internet and finding a whole network of Final Fantasy sites. It was also inspired by The Round Island, which was/is an absolutely superb site, and I am honoured to be one of their current affiliates. Eventually FFW fell apart when Deep made her Beyblade Website. FFW was left alone for a few years, but my interest in the Final Fantasy series kept growing as I played FFVII, FFVIII, FFIX, FFX, Kingdom Hearts and watched Final Fantasy: The Spirit Within.		Click here to view FFW's first layout. By FFFreak. March - August 2005
Then one day me and my sister started talking about remaking that old FFW website, with me as the Webmistress. So around March 2005 I made my first layout and it wasn't half bad! Simple grey and white colours with pictures from the FF Series worked very well. Deep spliced and coded the layout and uploaded the first few pages for me. Meanwhile I had been writing FFVII content for the past few months and finally got the information on the internet for the first time! While FFW began to develop, Deep began to lose interest in Beyblade and set up a new site about Kingdom Hearts (Kingdom Hearts Extreme).
Click here to view FFW's second layout. By FFFreak. August - December 2005	After the FFVII section for FFW was almost completed, me and Deep decided to open FFW and KHE to the public. It was a great feeling to see something you had created available for everyone. FFW started very small, with very few visitors. I joined several Topsites and added more pages. Slowly FFW became more popular, I sent an affiliation request and got my first affiliate, FFReign! Meanwhile KHE was simply flourishing, already with several affiliates and staff members!
In the following months, FFW joined many more topsites and gained several affiliates, everything was running smoothy. Then I went away for a week at a Do It 4 Real summer camp in August, when I came back everything was still great, I had two more affiliates and I felt inspired. One of the following weekends I made a new layout, I worked very hard on it. It had a blue and yellow colour scheme, the colours inspired from a water slide at a theme park, chosen very carefully so that they matched perfectly. After the layout was finished, many hours were put into splicing it, as it was my first time splicing, I made a right mess of it all. I asked Deep to do it, but she was far to busy with KHE which was at least four times as popular as FFW at the time. Finally, on Monday night, my Dad completed the layout and I had it up and running on Tuesday with Google AdSense, a Poll, an Advertising Banner System and a Shoutbox! I was amazed that it was finished at all! It looked pretty good as well! ^_^
So with FFWORLD V.2 uploaded, I started working on content again. I must've spent a whole day working on FFVIII Items! My graphics were improving as well, with new Avatars, Banners, Wallpapers and even Winamp Skins! FFW was getting an average of 140 hits and 58 unique visitors a day! Then on the 2nd of October 2005, FFW got a total of 10,000 hits! Then I got a helping hand from Alpha-Omega who did the story of FFIX, (my knowledge of FFIX is extremely limited) with more information on it's way. During December 2005 I thought FFW could do with a change of scenery, so I got to work on FFW V.3.		Click here to view FFW's third layout. By FFFreak. December 05 - May 2006
It didn't take long to create, and I was very pleased with the result. However during the slicing and coding process, I hit lots of problems. The layout was put on hold for weeks, and I had several friends try to fix it to no avail. The coding I was trying to use didn't seem compatable, which is just ridiculous. Eventually I dropped the new code and uploaded it using the coding I had all along. January 2006, the new layout was up, and everything was working. I had a few more attempts at using the new code, but it still didn't work, so I stuck with what I had. During March 2006, FFW released it's Merchandise Survey for the visitors to fill in. It was basically a form of which the results would help us to see if there was a demand for Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts costumes. Results of that survey have been positive and FFW is currently looking for a costume source and progress is looking good. We hope to have authentic quality costumes in our Online Shop by October 2006. Because of the news of possible Final Fantasy costumes, traffic went through the roof, and FFW got an all time record of 1,300 Unique Visitors in one day, and all time Pageviews finally hit 100,000!
Click here to view FFW's fourth layout. By FFFreak. May 2006 - ???	After the boost of traffic from the Merchandise Survey, FFW was experiencing difficulties with the Server we were on and we decided to switch to a new, more reliable server. The transfer took longer than expected, and the size of the files was too much for the new server, so lots of changes had to be made. Lots of files were optimised, and sub folders were ditched. Sadly there was no space for BBRealm, Deep's Beyblade fansite, so it had to be unexpectedly closed.
While switching servers, Deep decided to get KHExtreme, FFW's sister site, it's own URL to free up some space and increase Search Engine rankings. KHE's also released V.2.5, an upgrade to it's old layout. After the switch and a ten day holiday, I thought once again that FFW needed a change of scenery. FFW V.3 was getting old, the graphics seemed rusty and it's compatability was interferring. And so FFW Version 4 was created, and this time the coding worked! Everything fit together nicely, and I even added some new features, like rollovers and sliced loading times in half! (Hopefully more though!) Released just after Final Fantasy XIII was released, it was great timing. FFW also hired some more staff members, Koji, Chewy and Mevan have been helping out immensely. And so FFW has become so much more popular, my lists of Topsites and Affiliates kept doubling, (though sometimes dividing) themselves and the amount of content and media keep growing, and I find myself up to date. FFW will hopefully keep growing until all our content is completed and will be available for viewing until Square-Enix stops making games! ^_~ As a last note, FFW is still looking for content writers, who have excellent spelling/grammar and knowledge of FF games, who can submit content for early Final Fantasy games, (I through to VI) check out the Apply for Staff page for more details, thanks. Written by FFW's hard working Webmistress, FFFreak. ^.^

I would like to thank the following people for their help and support for FFW.

Deep, for all her hard work that went into FFW, excellent graphics, help and posting news when I was away.
Sorrow Shade, for his help with FFIX reviews and permission to upload his first AMV.
Every member of Staff who contribute their well-spent time to FFW.
My family, for supporting FFW and paying to keep it online. ^.^
My friends, for visiting FFW and supporting it.
My Affiliates, for affiliating with FFW and their continued support.
You, thanks to all FFW's visitors for helping us to become your #1 resource for Final Fantasy.

And Square-Enix for bringing us a fantastic game series and years of wonderful entertainment!

Name - FFFreak
Age - 19
Staff Position - Webmistress, Journalist, Graphics Designer and Content Writer.
Skills - Webdesign, writing Content, drawing or painting art, designing Graphics and making Winamp Skins.
Favourite Website - Apart from my own, probably FF Shrine, FFInsider, FFNet, Eternal Legend and any site with exceptional content and media. Non-FF would be Google, Youtube and Wikipedia.
Favourite Square-Enix Game - FFVII, FFIX and FFX.
Favourite Square-Enix Game FMV/Scene - FFX - The ending, FFIX - The ending, FFVIII - Reunion.
Hobbies - I enjoy Tennis, Drawing and Painting, designing graphics on Photoshop (Banners, Winamp Skins etc..), listening to music (ELO, Peter Gabriel and Creed being some of my favourites!), watching Movies and being with my friends.

Biography - I have had an interest in the Final Fantasy series since I was 11. The first game I played was FFVII, which I had borrowed from a friend and I absolutely loved it. Me and Deep would spend hours playing it. I quickly became quite skilled at the game and finally completed it a few months after buying my own copy. While browsing for FFVII information I came across a huge network of Final Fantasy websites and immediately wanted to make my own. I didn't know anything about webdesign however so nothing happened. During this time I also found out about the many other Final Fantasy's I was missing out on.
So I bought FFVIII soon after, the graphics were an excellent improvement since FFVII and I enjoyed it very much. I still haven't been able to complete it however, but I'll manage it sometime. I then went on to play FFIX and FFX both of which, (FFIX in particular) were absolutely fantastic. Then FFX-2 came along and it was a big disappointment at the time but has since grown to become a favourite.
I've also played Kingdom Hearts and watched Final Fantasy: The Spirit Within and FFVII: Advent Children.
I soon found the wonderful world of Anime after watching Princess Mononoké at a friend's house and I've seen nearly every Studio Ghibli animation and plenty of anime series such as Neon Genesis Evangelion and Naruto.

And finally, back in 2004, me and my sister, Deep decided to give making a Final Fantasy website a shot. It was simply called Final Fantasy World and had a really bad layout, we didn't know any better. I wrote a lot of FFVII content for it's release, including a walkthrough, but the site fell through and we put it aside for a while.
But eventually in March 2005, I decided to have another go, made my first layout and Deep coded it all; FFW was back! Only this time, I was the Webmistress! After uploading my old FFVII content, the site was officially online on the 25th June 2005.
Deep also made a website around the same time called Kingdom Hearts Extreme.
I'm pretty devoted to my site now, and there's still a lot of work to be done to make it one of the best FF resources, so I always have something to do.
Well that's all for me, enjoy my site!!! ^.^

- FFFreak



Name - Deep
Age - 17
Staff Position - Co-Webmistress, News Reporter.
Skills - Webdesign, amazing Graphics skils and Football (Soccer).
Favourite Website - Kingdom Hearts Ultimania.
Favourite Square-Enix Game - FFVII, FFX.
Favourite Square-Enix Game FMV/Scene - Hollow Bastion, where Riku takes Sora's Keyblade.
Hobbies - I enjoy acting, football (soccer), tennis, badminton, webdesign, video games. All that stuff. I also like listening to pop music, don't ever give me some classical music or rap. Never.

Biography - Well, I first decided to make KHE when I noticed that other KH sites didn't give that extra tiny bit of information that they could of done. So I thought I'd do it for them. I've been making Graphics and Websites for 4 years now. I use Photoshop to make all my GFX, but if PS is unavailable then I use Paint Shop Pro 6/7/8. I have made 4 Websites alltogether, my first was all about me, HP, KH, FF and LotR. My second one was Final Fantasy World, which I soon gave over to my sister, FFFreak. My 3rd was Beyblade Realm, which got 1000+ hits a day and was pretty popular. And then there's my current one, Kingdom Hearts Extreme.

- Deep



Name - VelvetElvis
Age - 16
Staff Position - News Reporter.
Skills - Coding, MySQL and reporting News.
Biography - I'm 16 and from Maryland. I like video-games, football, hanging out with my buddies and listening to music. I have a pretty normal life. I've been around the site building area for 5 or 6 years.
I know a lot of PHP and HTML junk.
- VelvetElvis


Name - Mevan
Age - 18
Staff Position - Graphics Designer.
Skills - Coding, MySQL and reporting News.
Biography - I'm 18, just applied to University and love making graphics.
I love Final Fantasy, I've played I and II briefly (mostly on my DS on my way to work) finished FFVII of course too many times to remember, VIII about 2-3 times, IX 1.5 times, X twice, used to play FFXI alot also and almost finished FFX-2, oh and V and VI too. ^^;;
i also own FF unlimited and FFVII:AC.
I've recently started to learn 3D modeling and animation, me and a friend are making an RPG game.
- Mevan



Name - Koji
Age - 17
Staff Position - AMV Maker.
Skills - AMV's and writing Content.
Biography - I've been playing FF since 1999. I've also been looking forward to KH2 since December 2004. I own Final Fantasy 7,8,9,X,X-2 and Tactics Advance, Kingdom Hearts 1,2 and COM. I've also watched FFVII:AC. I've finished all FFs that I own except 9. I've finished KH and KH2 but working on 100%.
Also here's one of my AMV's - FFVII:AC - Eminem AMV
- Koji

Name - Inferno Mage
Age - 16
Staff Position - Content Writer.
Skills - Designing Graphical Avatars and writing Reviews and Literature.
Favorite Square-Enix Game - FFVII.
Favorite Square-Enix Game FMV/Scene - The Landing in FFVIII
Biography - Hi there, my name's Inferno Mage. I'm 16 years old, male and a die-hard FF Fan. I have knowledge on all FF's. I'm currently a member at The Final Fantasy and I even have my own Workshop there to help other member with their avatars.
I'm also a writer and I'll be helping on covering Final Fantasy I & II (The remake versions), and may be a Theory Writer as well. I've cleared almost all FF's at least once: FFI, II, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, X-2 and CC. I started with FFVII, and since then it has remained my favourite. My favourite scene in a Square game has got to be The Landing in FFVIII...wow. My Hobbies are drawing, writing, playing games and dancing. Btw, I live in Holland, and was glad to see this site was from the UK, makes me feel close. :D
- Inferno Mage



Name - Chewy
Age - 22
Staff Position - Journalist and Content Writer.
Skills - Reporting on the latest news and writing content.
Biography - My name is Chewy I'm 22 years of age and I have applied here for the position of News Team / Journalist although I would love to apply for the position of FFI to FFVI Writer but I have not yet had the pleasure in playing FFI to FFVI yet. I have played FFVII, FFVIII, FFIX and I've just started playing FFXI and FFX. I am female and have not done any journalist writing before but would love to give this ago as I think it would be interesting to find out information about new games and it would be something I would enjoy doing.
- Chewy



Name - Kade
Age - 15
Staff Position - Journalist.
Skills - Reporting on the latest news.
Biography - I have played just about every Final Fantasy game there is and alot of other Square-Enix games also. I will also be celebrating my 16th birthday soon.
- Kade

Name - machinaman
Age - 14
Staff Position - AMV Maker.
Skills - Creating AMV's.
Biography - Hi everybody, my name is machinaman and it's nice to meet you! I play all kinds of games but nothing is better then beating a Final Fantasy game and watching the incredible ending! I own FFVII - X-2, FF tactics advance, KH, KH2, and KH: CoM. I've beaten FFVII, FFX, tactics advance, KH, KH2, and KH: CoM.
I'm playing KH2 on proud mode, and I see now why people say it's brutal! I haven't really played FFVIII or FFIX yet, but I'll try to start them soon! I'm working my second time through FFVII and I'm at the end right now. I'm trying to get every last card in KH: CoM and I've got ten more to go! I've also beaten Tactics advance four times, and I'm working on my fifth!
That's about it, I'll be working hard and making as many AMVs as I can!
- machinaman

Name - Navall
Age - 19
Staff Position - Graphics Designer.
Skills - Fluent in HTML, and vague concept of CSS. Can manipulate various
graphics, hense graphic design position. Drawing anime. Video games.
Hobbies - Magic:The Gathering. Video games. Computer graphics.
Favourite Website - Castlevania: Inverted Dungeon Webcomic.
Favourite Square-Enix Game - FFVII, and FFI.
Favourite Square-Enix Game FMV/Scene - ...Aside from the gorgeous master piece that is FFVII: AC, I'd have to say, in FFVII, when Rufus gets shot at by Weapon. Lovely scene.. no honest!

Biography - I've been playing video games since I was very young. My mom tells stories of me standing infront of the TV in a diaper, and playing Duck Hunt. Yeah Duck Hunt... The first RPG I had ever played was Zelda: LTTP for the SNES, and then I started to move up onto more advanced RPGs, like CT, and other such games like that. I had played my first FF with number 7, at about.. 12 years old. I remember buying it from Walmart, getting it home, opening the CD case.. and what did I find? A crack down the center of the first disk!!
Well, needless to say, I took it back, and got myself a nice new shiney one. It was great to play that game. It was like nothing I had ever seen before.
With all the gorgeous backgrounds, and amazing monsters. It was the first realistic FF that had come out, and deserved bragging rights. I've been hooked ever since!
- Navall

Name - X-Law
Age - 18
Staff Position - AMV Maker.
Skills - Creating AMV's.
Biography - I have been playing Final Fantasy games as far back as I care to remember! I own FFVI, VII, VII:AC, VIII twice, IX, X and X-2. I am considering buying Final Fantasy XI for the xbox360, I have completed Final Fantasy VIII a few times and Final Fantasy X twice. I have been looking forward to Final Fantasy XII since the day I heard about it. I am also looking forward to Kingdom Hearts 2 and Final Fantasy XIII. I have recently finished a basic IT course which has given me basic understanding of html coding and website design, I am hoping to get on to the next course up. I have been making AMVs for the past few months and so far I have a total of 17 and will be making and uploading more soon.
- X-Law



Name - Itani
Staff Position - News Journalist.
Skills - Locating and posting the latest news.
Biography - My very first console was the Atari. The games used to come in cartridges and my very first one was Space Invaders. A classic game that's still in the arcades to this day. But the most enjoyable console I had owned has to be the SNES. Playing all those Mario games made me what I am today. A game freak or in other words, a hardcore gamer. I now own every console out there except the DS. Not much of a handheld fan. But a big fan of the Final Fantasy, Metal Gear Solid, Kingdom Hearts, Zelda & Grand Theft Auto series. I didn't start working at sites till last year when I joined KHE as a KHII journalist. But I've been credited at various KH sites. Too many to name to tell you the truth. So that's why I just thought I'd become a journalist instead of handing the information out. I can go on about myself all day but I'll just tell you one more thing...
My favourite quote: "So gimme a stage where this bull here can rage and though I can fight, I'd much rather recite. And that's entertainment."
- Itani



Name - Icesage0
Age - 15
Staff Position - Journalist
Skills - My pen flows like water in a river, and I'm good at tearing apart people's builds in Guild Wars.
Favourite Website - GuildWars.com (Yep, I'm a Guild Wars player ^^)
Favourite Square-Enix Game - Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced, KH
Favourite Square-Enix Game FMV/Scene - Opening scene of FFXII
Hobbies - Writing, reading, video games, tennis, and listen to many diffrent varieties of music
Biography - I was the once highly enthusiastic webmaster of FFCraft-Roleplaying, that was until I realized I didn't have the knowlage of the newer FF games to make a whole site out of it. You see, I'm one of those old school FF players; accidently bought FFI for the NES because they labeled the game as Mario, but I loved it none the less.
I live in Wales, USA; and I have been for my whole life. I wish to travel to places, mainly England, Japan, and Germany. I speak fluent English (As it is my main language), semi-fluent German, and bit and pieces of French, Japanese, and Spanish.
- Icesage0



Name - Kelly
Age - 16
Staff Position - Content writer.
Skills - Reading and writing are my greatest assets. Just give me a pencil and paper and I'm ready to go.
Favourite Website - apart from this one...askaninja.com..no doubt.:)
Favourite Square-Enix Game - FF-X and FF-X-2. The story was of epic proportion and it took gaming to a new level for me.
Favourite Square-Enix Game FMV/Scene - Oh, that's an easy one! "The Spring" in FF-X. It made me so happy to see Tidus and Yuna finally together.
Hobbies - I'm trying out for the Color Guard at my school and that would be huge for me. I love to read and write ..mainly fantasy fiction. My friends are the best! Blake, Caleb, J.K and Kristen keep me on track even when I didn't know I got off of it.
Biography - Well, Final Fantasy X was the first game I had ever played. From the very beginning I knew that it was the only thing I would ever really play. It had meaning, and that in itself is what made the game what it is today....plus the best gameplay the world has ever seen! I have two younger siblings and two older. This basically puts me in the middle but I've never had a problem with that. My dad is my inspiration for everything. He works so hard and has always been there for me. He's my hero in every way. I'm fairly new to online journalism, but I'm sure that I'll love it. Oh! Just a random fact, but my friends and I are actually making a FINAL FANTASY movie. Just something over the summer that will make the best memories of all time. Well, that's me!
- Kelly

Name - Thom
Age - 18
Staff Position - Theory Writer
Skills - Writing
Biography - I have been writing since I was about 5 years old. Focusing mainly on songs and poetry until I was about 13, when I tried my hand at short stories. It was, however, at the age of 10, that I discovered Final Fantasy 7. From that moment on when I'd go to buy a video game my parents would say "How about Crash Bandicoot...or Silent Hill?" and I'd say "Wheres Final Fantasy". I have played all the games past 7 excpet for 11, and have dabbled with 1, 4, and 6. I have also played Dirge of Ceberus and X-2 (the latter of which I'm route to beating right now). My love of the series (and of Kingdom Hearts which I have beaten 1 once and KH2 twice) led me here to work with the best possible outcome.
-Thom

Name - Mako-tan
Age - 12
Staff Position - Theory Writer
Skills - Oh. Oh. Writing. I'm constantly writing little dribs and drabs of stories. And I sew, too!
Favorite website - Wikipedia, without a doubt.
Favorite Square-Enix game - Final Fantasy Chronicles, VII, IX, Parasite Eve, and Kingdom Hearts
Favourite Square-Enix FMV/Scene - THAT scene at the end of the first disc in Final Fantasy VII, (I do love Aerith, though!) Opening scene - FF XII, Trance Kuja - FF IX, Carnegie Hall scene - Parasite Eve, and the endings of Final Fantasy X and Kingdom Hearts 2.
Hobbies - Cosplaying, (I'm working on a Jenova cosplay right now! Imagine that!) sewing, writing, drawing, gaming, and just being an all-out nerd.

Biography - As a wee girl, I was raised on two things: Sailor Moon and an SNES. The first game I remember completing was Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest when I was 4 or 5. True, I had no clue what the dialogue read and, true, I referred to the battle commands as their first letter, but I loved it. For the next few years, nothing exciting happened and my interest in videogames diminished slowly until 2001 when I was munching on old Halloween candy and saw a commercial for Kingdom Hearts. I was interested and ended up renting it. That, ladies and gentlemen, was what re-introduced me into the wonderful world of gaming.

Anyway, there was one character that influenced me to browse further into Square's games. Cloud. When I first saw him, my original thought was Well, he's hot. That thought was the only reason I bought Final Fantasy VII. From that, I got more and more games. In fact, I just reached 10 Final Fantasy games (Two of them being collections) alone last year.
Of course, I like other games. My favorite game hands down is Shadow of The Colossus, one of the most meaningful and beautiful games ever that's just gorgeous in all aspects. Ico is right behind Shadow of The Colossus, too. Another amazing game and, hey! Its Shadow's sequel! But, no matter how many games come along, my heart will always belong to Square!
- Mako-tan



Name - DarkAngeal
Age - 18
Staff Position - Journalist

Biography - The first Final Fantasy I ever played was FFIV on the SNES way back 1991 when I was 2. Then from there my love for Final Fantasy had grew stronger especially towards FFVII which is definitely one of the best games ever released. From IV I have bought every FF game released by Square including other Square-Enix titles such as Kingdom Hearts, Dragon Quest etc.
I'm OK when it comes to Graphics and Media...though not great I have managed to master the basics of making things look good.
I am pretty much open to discussion with anybody and am easy going, so peace out people.
- DarkAngeal