Saturday, July 17, 2004

This calls for a lame celebration.


Yes, after 11 months and sixteen days of trials and tribulations, I have finally hit the 2,000 visit mark. I can't believe it's been almost a year already. It seems like it was just yesterday that Adam announced his crazy scheme that would supposedly revolutionize theOtaku.

My mO page started out very small and un-good. If I recall, every other sentence had a smilie in there somewhere, and most of the time it was either ^_^' or -_-. Fortunately, nobody had to endure that too much, because my posts were.. Quite short and irrelevant.

I don't think myOtaku really got too much credit until OtakuBoards was down for a week or two during the v7 transition. Everybody who spent most of their time typing up stuff on the forum vented that need to write toward myOtaku, and that's where things started picking up. A little while after that Adam introduced the color scheme editing feature, which gave everybody another way to express themselves on their sites (I always thought light blue wasn't appropriate enough for Ken's site). My first color scheme was gray, much like the gray I have right now, with a black background and orange text everywhere. I had a Witch Hunter Robin avatar-icon thinger (Amon off the second DVD cover with orange background instead of purple), and a scan from Johnny the Homicidal Maniac that I colored. It turned out okay, but I re-did it later on (which looked even cooler).

I recall getting a lot of positive input for the Amon avatar, which was more simple to make than most people thought at the time, but that input motivated me to do more web graphics.

The next theme that stands out in my mind was the infamous green FLCL thing. I hope I don't have to explain it. The point of the thing was to stick in people's minds, and if people know what I'm talking about without hearing a description of it, I did my job.

This was back in the days before they changed the myOtaku MIDI feature, and we could put MP3s on our sites. Mine always had rather cool songs, but I remember Witch Hunter Robin's opening theme (Shell) and FLCL's ending theme (Ride on a Shooting Star) most. Those were good times..

I miss putting MP3s on. It added another layer of coolness to the site.

And now, in the spirit of retrospective rants, I shall make a list of my favorite mO pages and what I like most about them. Lucky you.

A list of my favorite myOtaku pages, in no particular order

Shinmaru- Good old Shin always has insightful and silly rants going on. It's fun stuff to read about, and his site has the coolest shade of red ever.

Syk3- All of his themes have always been so perfectly executed. IF ONLY HE WOULD UPDATE MORE OFTEN. >:O

Ken, aka DeathKnight- Thought provoking posts. Very cool guy.

James- James always makes the most kick-ass themes. Plus, it's always cool to read his little teaser hints at his future projects.

Karmi- Sometimes mentally stimulating, other times silly and good giggling material. Oh, and for the record, o Queen of Waffles, I had the most wonderful waffles today. ;_; So crisp and buttery..

There are many, many other mOs that I don't read too often (Mimmi's, Aleia's, Azure's, if he would ever friggin' update), but I really should. Don't worry, guys, you'll get your praise at 3,000. :)

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Well, now I'm in a retrospective mood. I think tomorrow I'll do a long, image-heavy post chronicling the history of me and web graphics.
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