Toad's Castle Turns Two Years Old!

[supertoad]

Another year has passed for Toad's Castle, and what a year it's been. The overall content on the site has more than tripled and many new sections have been added. There has scarcely been a week that did not see new guides, comics, reviews, or other additions. A year ago the forum was nothing more than an unused sub-section of my other site. Since July it has slowly grown into a thriving community with discussions on a broad array of topics in addition to video games, from current events to writing, books, and movies. In the fall Toad's Castle interviewed a Nintendo programmer, and we recently interviewed Tommy Tallarico. Visitors to have increased from 100-200 a day to about 1000, and in May we had a total of 482,860 hits. It's been a great year and I've loved every minute of it.

When I started Toad's Castle early one summer morning I never expected the site to last or grow for as long as it has. Indeed, I often start small sites that are quickly abandoned. It seemed Toad's Castle's fate was sealed when I stopped updating several weeks later, leaving the site's hideous yellow layout and nearly place holder quality content to rot in the wasteland of failed projects. But things changed about a year and a month ago when, discouraged with people's lack of enthusiasm for the programming site I had run for two years, I restarted work on Toad's Castle. By July of last year Toad's Castle had become my main website. It is now my longest lasting and most successful internet project.

Over the past few weeks you may have noticed several new sections popping onto the navigation bar in rapid succession. I've been hard at work in my effort to turn Toad's Castle into the #1 Mario fan site on the net, and this is only the beginning. Throughout the summer you can expect updates almost every day, with new sections appearing on a weekly basis. By the end of the summer I predict that Toad's Castle will have grown in size more than it has throughout this entire year.

I'd like to thank all of you for visiting and supporting Toad's Castle. A fan site is nothing without quality fan content, and I am overjoyed to have received such great art, fiction, comics, and more. Reading your comments and feedback on the site has been a wonderful experience. And finally, thanks to all of the great members of the forum who stop by daily and make Toad's Castle more a cold collection of bits. I hope you'll all stick around, the show has only begun.

[Boshinator]

I can't wait to see toadscastle change over the summer!

[Diarago]

I can't wait until the site gets its big break. What I mean by that is, when it's recognized as the best Mario fan site. Keep going, Eric. We're here to help.

[Nightmare]

I can't wait until the site gets its big break. What I mean by that is, when it's recognized as the best Mario fan site. Keep going, Eric. We're here to help.

I don't doubt that it will be best!

[Diarago]

I can't wait until the site gets its big break. What I mean by that is, when it's recognized as the best Mario fan site. Keep going, Eric. We're here to help.

I don't doubt that it will be best!

No doubts at all.

At least, it will always be the best for all of us here.

[Nightmare]

3 cheers for TC! Hip-hip!...

[Diarago]

3 cheers for TC! Hip-hip!...

Hip?

Oh, I'm supposed to say hooray.

[Nightmare]

Hip-hip!...

[Diarago]

Hooray...I'm too old to be doing this.

[Nightmare]

One more!

Hip-hip!...

[Diarago]

Hooray...

Why are we spoiling this topic?

[supertoad]

HOORAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ironically I spent most of today conquering the world in Age of Empires instead of making a new page. I meant to start the game endings page today. I have to play through every game I post so this should be fun.

[Diarago]

HOORAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ironically I spent most of today conquering the world in Age of Empires instead of making a new page. I meant to start the game endings page today. I have to play through every game I post so this should be fun.

Well...Awesome. I just kinda' like what you did with the banner. It's like someone passed by and left some graffitti.

[The Revolution]

HOORAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ironically I spent most of today conquering the world in Age of Empires instead of making a new page. I meant to start the game endings page today. I have to play through every game I post so this should be fun.

Well...Awesome. I just kinda' like what you did with the banner. It's like someone passed by and left some graffitti.

and das why its a coo banner from superT.

[Diarago]

That's true.