When I started this five months ago, it was a small community project. It all began with The Birthday Massacre, followed by Lunarclick and Ever…and since then it’s grown into a monster. We’ve just uploaded our 100th theme – another contribution by Julie Morris!
I can’t thank everyone enough. I had no idea how popular this site would become. We now get well over 7k unique visits a day! Looking back at some of our earlier stuff (like Kill Hannah, for instance) I can really see how much better we’re getting at this. As the demand for new themes has grown higher and higher, we’ve gained some great new designers. A lot of people now have a hand in this site – from the testers, to the review guys, and of course the users. In the last month or two, Julie and Danielle have been doing most of the real design work while I work on code related things like our little ‘toolbar’ (see below). I have to thank everyone who’s been helping. There’s no way we could have gotten so much done these last few months without this kind of group effort.
I did want to say I will eventually get back to doing some of the designs as well. One of the things that has caught me off guard is how difficult retro-fitting all the pages with new technology is now that we’ve got so many. When I add a new patch of code (like our recent Apple+Firefox fix) I literally have to go over hundreds of pages. That can often take a few days, and so I just haven’t had time to design new themes myself. I’m currently the only one working on the backend of the site (the programming and such) so it can get challenging at times. I’m trying to make all the pages more uniform so we can upload them quicker and modify them more easily in the future. That’s why you’ve been seeing all these announcements to ‘refresh/reload’ your page.
We’ve had so much news lately, I haven’t had a change to mention this new ‘toolbar’. Lots of our users have suggested we put links to go back to the preferences, gallery, etc on their start page. We’ve also had a lot of questions about how to set a start page as your homepage. After taking all of these things into consideration, I’ve whipped up a little one-line bar at the top right hand corner of every page. From there you can get to the main site’s most used features. I know it looks small, but it’s going to be helpful to a lot of people (and took quite a while to complete). Phew!
If you enjoy the site, please help by promoting. Thanks again to everyone! We look forward to the next 100 🙂
❤️ Eric