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I love Anime's one =O I've never really moved the icons around the page. Sometimes to a different corner, or in a row along the bottom, but not randomly dotted - it looks nice. :)

Xepha's is nice =] Yeah, S-R do some nice images. And TJ's is cool too; what's the little TDN link in the corner by the clock?

Oranges, Luna Eclipse? :P Fair enough. Looks...very edible. :)

Mine's just one of the preinstalled images, but it's all summery and happy. :)

Problem solved! Yay.

Any more problems, feel free to post.

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I thought it might be interesting to post your desktop, have a look at everyone elses.

Simply take a screenshot - guide here from TDN - and upload it, and paste the image link below.

Please don't put in the whole image onto the forum post - linking to it is much nicer. :)

Cheers!

Here's mine:

http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/3143/screenshotna7.png

Care to post yours and comment others? :)

I just came across this interesting little SWF. http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf

It's interesting. I never really think about the rest of the world every single minute of the day, obviously; it's sometimes hard to think beyond your own home. But the statistics on here really were quite amazing.

At the time of writing, there are currently:

• 312 births
  
• 151 deaths
  
• 139 abortions
  
• 2 US immigrants illegally entered
  
• 17 HIV infections
  
• 162 cars produced
  
• 403 computers produced
  
• 5 suicides
  
• 19 STD deaths.
  

And...well, of course, most of that will have doubled by the time I finish this sentance.

It's interesting. :O Click on 'NOW' at the top to set it to zero.

The sidebar navigation counts as a page, as does any Meepit that you might be able to find on it =o

(Don't add it over again for each page :P)

UH-OH.

With just hours until TDN launches it's next layout, MEEPITS seemed to have infested a portion of our site! Can you count how many we've got, so we can remove them as soon as we can, and tell us where they are?!

• Send your answers to [email protected].
  
• Correct answers will earn a (small) prize, so include your Neopets username, AND your forums display name!
  
• We know about the two in the purple box at the top, so those two are not included.
  
• There's loads of tiny little ones around, and we've heard that there's even one GIANT one.
  
• Provide URLs of pages, where they are, and how many there are per page. We also need the total amount (remember not to include the two in the purple box).
  
• The only pages that have been infected are the index page, the TDN Site navigation, and pages linked from the index page (not tabs). Especially pages under "The Daily Neopets" on the index page's navigation.
  

PLEASE HELP US!

TDN Y2 is on it's way, folks.

TDN Staff

All 17 members who entered have been awarded a prize each. The remaining prizes were randomly handed out, depending on what our random generator told us. Some got just the one prize.

Hello all,

Today marks a whole year since TDN Forums was first opened up to the public! YAY!

It's been a fantastic year, and we hope you enjoy it.

On Monday, just over a whole year since the last switchover, we'll be changing our layout. There are also plans for TDN Forums in the coming weeks and months. It's party time, folks =D

CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES, C'MON! We're holding a gigantic, big, fantastic giveaway :D

Click here to enter the giveaway! It'll remain open until sometime tomorrow. We'll unleash our prizes upon you then =D

I believe our Special Events Co-ordinator, Animetriplicate, has some small events planned also. Wah-hey! They'll be released within a few hours, hopefully.

Thank you for sticking with us for a year!

Update: Poetry Competition!

We think you'll be proud of what we've produced! The site that was beta has changed (drastically), but we think you'll all be happy. Everyone's views were taken into account. :)

Hey all,

Today marks one year since the forums were created and secretly opened to staff members! But, alas, they weren't opened until August 4th, to the general public - and to celebrate, on August 4th, we'll be holding a giveaway!

It's been a massive year - and we can't believe it's gone so quickly.

If you'd like to help us (and we'd really appreciate it!), you can donate to the giveaway - read all about how to donate here.

Finally, if you hadn't noticed, we're running a small survey - you can participate by clicking here.

Happy Birthday, TDN Forums!

Many thanks,

The TDN Staff

After much deliberation, I'm unable to find a code that will be able to add a close option to non-safety alerts. I'll continue looking; for the moment, I can't find the correct show/hide div javascript code that I need that incorporates session cookies.

I'll ask Ian to look into it whenever he's around.

With regards to the beta testing, we thought that the process was taking longer than it should of, and it's purpose was to give a platform for us to gain ideas, build upon comments made, and to gain an idea of what the public wanted from the site - and these ideas have indeed been incorporated into what we're currently producing. In addition, comments started to fade away, with no new contributions made; and we weren't entirely happy with our original result, so we set out to see how innovating we could be, taking into account other websites, the web 2.0 generation, your comments, and staff ideas. To make it easier for this to happen, beta was closed. We praise everyone involved for their timely and very indepth comments, and they have been thought about!

I'll take the issue of Ian's coding help up with him personally, and see what he thinks about it. It may be that we could advertise for a programmer, and give them their own directory for which to work on their own projects independantly and in their own time, and the more successful ones can be worked on with Ian also. We'll look into it; I can't promise results straight away, though, unfortunately.

With the Guide to Neopia, the files have in fact been deleted. As to why we didn't release it, or continue working on it, we were busy with the current version of TDN, plus the Altador Plot. It was sidetracked as we needed to focus efforts on producing top-notch plot content, with very minimal staff. (Have you realised how many staff members we have? Very few compared to NL and JN!) It may be a weak move, and I'm saddened by this approach, but we felt that after two sites had released it, it would become slightly pointless to bother with it. How many people would even use it? I'm sure you wouldn't, if you've been on Neopets for more than a few months. In addition, remember that we had no knowledge of JN releasing it until they did, and after two sites do it, the idea seemed a little redundant.

In regards to competition, TDN has continuously been the third most popular Neopets help site (according to Alexa, with JN and PinkPT beating us), and dominates Google's search pages (they send us over three thousand unique hits a week); we recieved 710,000 users Jan-March (I've yet to recieve accurate figures for the current month). There is definately competition! It might well be that we're getting members who aren't as used to Neopets as JN's users are, but once they see our content, they tend to come back. New features are of course fantastic, and we're glad to produce them, but our number one priority is Neopets help; this is what people come to our site to look for. We do fine without graphics! And an important thing to remember about Y2 is that Y2 is simply a layout and a new way of organising content. It's not a new feature per se, so it won't attract new members. Other sites may have taken steps to create new features, but on the whole they're nothing that brings them more users (does anyone actually use NL Avatars? Everyone uses AvLog (and in my opinion, for good reason)).

Thanks for your praise :) Do remember, though, that everyone here takes part actively and I'll take this oppurtunity to praise each of them for this. Matt consistently runs the Avatar Lending Program, almost single-handededly whilst Eric is ill, Ryan creates interesting and well-authored content, and Anime joins the other two in managing the forums very well. Everyone has their own niché; I tend to deal with the site, answering Content Dept emails, setting up alerts, news posting. However, on the forums, I only moderate when I see something wrong; I've got 19 pages in my inbox mostly consisting of unopened forum reports, which I leave unread because I know that very quickly, our dedicated team will be have dealt with the issues. We work as a team doing each and every little part of the site, and no member of this team could do it without another.

The avatar lists is something that we're aware of; we'll go through each one soon, and I'll propose to Ian some new ideas regarding avatars on the main site. Thanks for your sister's support :P

I'm intrigued by your Adam Alert suggestion. It's possible, I'd expect; I'll again, talk to Ian when I can, and see if this can be incorporated into Y2 (there is no point doing it for the current site, we're close to completion anyways). It's definately original, and benefits all users.

I'll look into the close button :)

As for the editorial, it will not be forgotton :)

More suggestions welcome!

Oh, no, I'm not mad in any way at you! Sorry if I gave that impression away, it was by no means my intention :)

I'll address your other concerns, whilst I'm here. =]

In an effort to keep the noise down about our projects, we closed beta, took in the comments raised, and set to work again. Y2 - whilst not on beta (and, we can confirm that it will not again enter the beta stage) - is very much the opposite to dead, and is well underway; I daresay that you'll hear more of it in the coming days/fortnight.

As with regards to our other projects, we're discussing various other little tidbits - I've mentioned that one's on the go currently - and Matt and Eric have a whole site plot lined up for you, which will be on Y2 and is very close to completion. In addition to that, we've talked about various new means of content - including video content - and VoIP possibilities.

Please, be rest assured that this site is most certainly not dead, and is not on the road to doom, neither.

If you have any ideas that are original to the site, please share them with us! We're also looking into other "big" projects, that Ian can work on with the site, but these things take time.

Remember NNoN (and then JN)'s 'Guide to Neopia'? That was planned, and work began on it, for the current website. Due to both sites releasing it, we abandoned it. We have to produce original and diverse content, and unfortunately we can't release something just after another site has released the same darn thing.

We always have content staff applications open; always. We never get any good applications. Your trial - and I'm certain that you'll pass - will start the very day that Y2 is released. There's no point starting any new staff yet; we have a whole new admin panel for Y2, so it's just useless training to teach them to use the current one. As for coding, a lot of things would require access to the root server and databases, something which will hardly be given away to a stranger who Ian doesn't know; and, in any case, Ian has proved that he likes to be an extremely independant worker when it comes to creating projects. We'll discuss this aspect in future staff chats.

I see your point on the editorial, but we don't want an argument to ensue regardless. People who won't know of our editorial previously would say, "hey, you copied" and we'd politely tell them of the editorial's history, but that brings bad press and bad light the very second that argument starts. We could well bring it back, but it's just common courtesy to leave it a few weeks, no?

We're not saying that they got their first and hence we give up, but we just don't think now is the right time to release any sort of editorial, considering the very recent release of JN's. We're competitors, sure, but we compete on a friendly scale - we're not some sort of Apple vs Microsoft rivalry.

If you have any other ideas that could be put to use, please do tell us.

*Almost-but-not-quite-official response*

Hey guys,

We're pleased you liked the tutorials! They were removed some time ago, when other sections were released, for need of tab space and because they recieved very little page views compared to other pages (in fact, some pages in the category were less than old, barely used content!). In addition, there weren't always many valid questions that could be answered.

Whilst your idea is great, I'm not too keen on having random users managing it, after a fashion. Issues could be raised over fairness to others who want a chance, and who won't be content with a waiting list of many weeks before they'd get to answer any questions; and the quality of answers could change week-on-week, and guests wouldn't place too much trust in it if low quality answers show up, or if some questions are answered by less-experianced members.

With that in mind, bringing back the editorial is certainly an option if ran by staff members (or, possibly, Fantastic Members as a benefit, or users whose Neopets account is of a certain age). And, yes, there would most certainly be a form to submit questions if it were to come about.

The problem, however - and I'm sure is what spurred the idea into your head - is that Jellyneo, a popular competitor, has just released a similar editorial feature. It would have to be some time before we released such an item again, because of the complaints of lack of originality, and even copying, that could ensue.

But never fear! We're already in the beginning stages of another project that could incorporate something in a level similar to this.

Feel free to carry on discussing how this could be run, though!

Many thanks,

Samuel

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Many thanks, TJ.

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Very nice ;)

I'm not sure you need the pet in the top-left corner, as you have it in the Flash anyways, but its still a very nice, well presented lookup. Well done :)

9/10.

You could maybe improve it's description, just to make the page look nicer.