The History of my Little Web Page

6/21/08 Finished the write-up for Metrocon 2007
6/1/08 Posted rest of AWA 13 photos
5/26/08 Posted Friday, Saturday and Sunday Cosplay for JACON 9
5/8/08 Main counter broke 320,000 total daily hits. That is about 65 unique users a day over the past few months.
4/20/08 Posted the con report for Anime Express X
4/13/08 Completed the JACON 2007 report
4/5/08 Posted cosplay photos for MegaCon 2008
1/26/08 Completed report for MegaCon 2007
1/21/08 Posted dance photos for AFO 2007
1/20/08 Posted Cosplay Contest photos for AFO 2007
1/20/08 Posted Events for AFO 2007
12/11/07 Main counter broke 310,000 total daily hits. That is about 95 unique users a day over the past few months.
12/3/07 Posted opening ceremonies and Human Checkers from AFO 2007
12/1/07 Posted Animebelle's kimono fashion show
11/12/07 Posted Friday and Saturday Cosplay for Janicon 2007
11/4/07 Posted the Peelander-Z party pictures for Janicon 2007
10/15/07 Posted the rest of the photos for Metrocon 2007. The report is still pending.
10/9/07 Posted a surprise report for Ancient City convention in St. Augustine.
10/4/07 Sunday cosplay posted for AWA 13
10/1/07 Friday and Saturday cosplay posted for AWA 13
9/16/07 Added the Metrocon 2007 Human Chess Match photos.
8/28/07 My main counter finally broke 300,000 total daily hits. That's about 100 unique users a day over the last few months, and about 71 unique users a day since the site was created in February, 1996. After a sudden huge peak, traffic has dropped back to pretty much where it was in 2004. However, traffic is now slowly growing once again.
8/26/07 Finally added K-chan's photos
8/18/07 Finally finished the report for AWA 12
8/14/07 Posted Friday, Saturday and Sunday cosplay for AFO 2007
7/22/07 Posted about half of Metrocon 2007
5/28/07 Posted rest of photos for JACON 2007
5/27/07 Posted photos for cosplay and the Animusical for JACON 2007
5/20/07 Main counter broke 290,000 total daily hits. That is about 95 unique users a day over the past few months.
3/18/07 After almost 6 months, I finally finished the AFO 7 convention report.
3/4/07 Posted the photos for MegaCon 2007.
2/5/07 Added the Maddox book signing report.
2/3/07 Added Jessica and Justin's Gundam SEED wedding report
1/31/07 Main counter broke 280,000 total daily hits. That is about 85 unique users a day over the past few months.
11/25/06 My guestbook has been out of commission since mid-July due to guestbook spammer bots. It is now back in operation. If you've attempted to leave a comment in the past, please try again.
10/6/06 Main counter broke 270,000 total daily hits. That is about 120 unique users a day over the past few months.
9/10/06 Posted the con report for AX 15
9/4/06 Posted my preliminary CLAMP report for AX 15
9/2/06 Posted the rest of the photos for AFO 7. The report will have to come later.
8/28/06 Posted the Cosplay photos for AFO 7
7/23/06 Posted Monday cosplay for Anime Expo 2006
7/18/06 Posted Saturday and Sunday cosplay for Anime Expo 2006.
7/15/06 Main counter broke 260,000 total daily hits. That is about 135 unique users a day over the past couple of months.
6/12/06 Posted the commentary for JACON 7.
5/28/06 Posted the photos for JACON 7. I'll update the comments later on.
5/1/06 Main counter broke 250,000 total daily hits. That is about 150 unique users a day over the past couple of months.
4/15/06 Posted the con report for Anime Express IX
3/19/06 Posted the con report for MegaCon 2006.
2/24/06 Main counter broke 240,000 total daily hits. That is almost 170 unique users a day over the past couple of months. Since the creation of this site, 10 years ago, there have been an average of 65 unique users a day.
1/12/06 I have finally, after almost six years, posted the AX 2000 photos courtesy of Jerry's Photos.
12/28/05 Updated the Anime Express VI page to the new format with larger landscape photos.
12/26/05 Main counter broke 230,000 total daily hits. That is  220 unique users a day over the past couple of months. It seems that my Fanta Girls reference has dropped to the second page on Google.
12/26/05 Updated the Anime Express V page to the new format with larger landscape photos.
12/24/05 Updated the Anime Express IV page to the new format with larger landscape photos.
12/23/05 Updated the 5th Annual AFSM Party page to the new format with larger landscape photos.
12/17/05 Wrote a whole new cosplay report with many more images for Anime Express II where before there were only a few vidcaps.
11/21/05 Updated the 3rd Annual AFSM Party page to the new format with larger landscape photos.
11/11/05 Main counter broke 220,000 total daily hits. That is a stunning 335 unique users a day over the past month. The driver behind this continues to be Google image hits for the Fanta Girls.
11/7/05 Updated the 2nd Annual AFSM Party page to the new format with larger landscape photos.
10/30/05 Updated the 1st Annual AFSM Party page to the new format with larger landscape photos.
10/25/05 Updated the Anime Express III page to the new format I adopted back on 10/1/03 with larger landscape photos.
10/15/05 Finished my AWA 11 convention report.
10/12/05 Main counter broke 210,000 total daily hits. That's about 140 unique users a day since August. So what's the new attraction? It turns out that my page is at the top of the Google image search list for Fanta Girls.
10/9/05 Posted my preliminary con report for AWA 11.
9/4/05 Finished my AFO 6 convention report
8/22/05 Posted my preliminary con report for AFO 6.
8/1/05 My main counter finally broke 200,000 total daily hits. That's about 80 unique users a day since March, and about 58 unique users a day since the site was created in February, 1996. After a major drop, traffic is pretty much back to where it was in 2004, but I think it's just been through natural growth. What really took a hit back in January (and never recovered) was specifically the cosplay contest  pages for AE 5 and AE 6 as well as the Gravitation yaoi page for AE 6.
6/19/05 In an effort to get my secondary pages listed on Google once again, I submitted my site map to the Google Sitemaps engine. My secondary pages are now back on Google, so it appears to have worked. My stats inched up a little for June, we'll see what happens for July.
6/18/05 Back on 3/4, when I moved my site to a new host server, I somehow lost my menu navigation system. The basic menus were still there, but I couldn't edit them. Over the last few months, I recreated all the menus and even added a few more that were missing from the original site. Today I finally finished all the menus.
5/8/05 While my traffic numbers continue to be low as indicated on the graph below, at least the mystery has been solved. On 1/26/05 Google dropped many of my secondary pages from their search index. Who would have known that Gravitation yaoi was such a popular search phrase ^_^;
4/16/05 Finished the Anime Express VIII con report.
4/9/05 Posted half the con report for Anime Express VIII
3/28/05 Main counter broke 190,000 total daily hits. That's about 100 unique users a day since December. It's likely that some of this decline is due to the mysterious drop noted below that started on 1/26.
3/20/05 Posted the con report for MegaCon 2005.
3/4/05 Back on 2/22, my host server crashed and it took a couple of days to get it back on-line. Even then, it was still having problems. After some discussion with my host provider, we moved my site to a new host server. Although my site was somewhat available during that period, it was only fully restored to its original functionality today. Combined with the traffic decline noted below, my February stats took a major hit as you can see on the chart below.
1/26/05 Something odd has happened to my web traffic. Starting on this date, visits immediately dropped off by a good 30% and as of 3/28 have still not recovered.
12/19/04 Main counter broke 180,000 total daily hits. That's about 120 unique users a day since September.
10/17/04 Posted the con report for AWA 10
10/16/04 Finally (2 months later) completed the write-up for AFO 5.
9/28/04 Main counter broke 170,000 total daily hits. That's about 125 unique users a day since July.
9/6/04 Added comments to about half of the AFO 5 pages.
8/15/04 Posted the photos for AFO 5. I'll update the comments later on.
8/14/04 Due to a problem with my web host, my web site was damaged and I had to rebuild the entire menu system. My apologies to anyone who attempted to access my site over the last two weeks as the navigation system was broken.
8/1/04 I split up my guestbook into years so it can load faster
7/26/04 I noticed that many links on my Japan pages were broken. I updated them to point to new relevant sites and in the process changed all the pointers to open a new window, leaving the original travelogue pages untouched. I also touched up a few of the images via my new Photoshop app.
7/10/04 Main counter broke 160,000 total daily hits. That's about 125 unique users a day since April.
7/6/04 Posted the con report for DreamCon 2004.
7/5/04 Added the final component to my web history chart. Using this web history page and some knowledge of what my early web traffic was like based on the Web Counter stats that was part of this page since the very beginning, I extrapolated my web traffic back to the origin of this page, 2/13/96 (See the chart at the bottom of this page).
4/20/04 Main counter broke 150,000 total daily hits. That's an amazing 145 unique users a day since February. This is the highest count ever to date. I guess two cosplay con pages in the same month will do that.
4/10/04 Actually, I decided to remove the family page altogether. It is years out of date and I can't seem to come up with a new format that I like.
3/30/04 Tweaked my family page a bit to remove the fansub references since I'm not collecting them anymore. For now it's DVD or nothing unless the show is a rare treasure and just not available in digital format. Also added a comment to the anime page about checking eBay for Unico.
3/29/04 Not with a Bang, But a Whimper. I've finally and formally shut down my fansub distribution page. It is a sad thing to do, but there is just no demand for VHS anymore. Never the less, there is still lots to see here on the convention pages.
3/28/04 Hurray!! I finally restored the functionality of my original guestbook. It was just a permissions issue all along. As an added benefit, the previous Matt Wright script has been replaced by a new and up to date nms script.
3/27/04 For now, I've moved back to the old banner. I like the new one, I really do, but it is seems like it is just too cute for what I wanted.
3/26/04 Posted the con report for Anime Express VII.
3/21/04 I'm still getting the hang of the new Photoshop app. I've decided that the default image file sizes were too large and took too long to download on the recent updates that I made (A-kon 2003 and MegaCon 2004 and so I reduced them a bit, pretty much cutting the file size in half with no discernable loss of image quality.
3/17/04 Updated my main page with a new banner. The fourth one that I've had so far. Once again, my new banner was created specially for my page by Scortia-chan.
(Phoenix Anime Version 7)
3/15/04 Since I still had an unedited set of A-kon 2003 photos, I re-edited them using Photoshop and re-posted them. The new photos are brighter, clearer and better cropped.
3/14/04 Now that I'm using a new web access summary program (due to the host move), I've updated my spreadsheet that creates the chart at the bottom of this page. No change in the overall stats, just makes it easier for me to summarize future data.
3/12/04 Posted the con report for MegaCon 2004.
2/11/04 Main counter broke 140,000 total daily hits. That's about 95 unique users a day since October. This is the highest count ever to date.
2/9/04 As opportunity would have it, I had lost all of my edited photos of AWA. So this was a great chance to edit them all over again using my new Photoshop app. They are now much brighter, clearer and better cropped. In the process, I finally finished the commentary for this convention as well.
2/8/04 I could not resist tweaking a few of the Japan photos and updating some of my Japan pages.
2/7/04 It took my old host screwing up my access log for January to make me realize that I had not been counting 304 codes on my Daily Page View stats all these years. Even if it's from cache, it's still a hit. That bumped my DPV stats by about 10%.
2/4/04 A small thing, but with the copy of Photoshop Elements I recently purchased, I was able to greatly improve the panoramic view of Miyajima Island. Here are the before and after versions.
2/1/04 After almost 4 years, I have moved my web page to a new web host provider. Twice the space for one third the price and the pages load faster to boot.
1/19/04 Added comments to about half of the AWA 9 pages.
1/2/04 Due to the demise of the VHS fansubs, I have removed all titles from my distribution list except for Unico and Sailor Moon.
10/27/03 Main counter broke 130,000 total daily hits. That's about 80 unique users a day since June.
10/1/03 Added the Anime Weekend Atlanta 2003 page with a new format that incorporates the comments in with the pictures. Still need to add the commentary however.
8/27/03 Added the 5th Annual AFSM Party page
6/26/03 Main counter broke 120,000 total daily hits. That's about 80 unique users a day since February.
6/3/03 Added the A-kon 2003 Cosplay page
5/9/03 Updated my links page for the first time in about 3 years.
5/4/03 Added the Anime Express VI page.
2/24/03 Changed the hit graph (below) to average daily hits instead of monthly total hits.
2/22/03 Main counter broke 110,000 total daily hits. That's about 60 unique users a day since September.
1/4/03 Found out that my page view stats were low by an order of 500%. That's what I get from depending on an automated summary. Also finally realized a five year goal to combine my old web tracking data with my new, more accurate data. Now I can show my web history all the way back to the time I first set up Fast Counters in July '98.
12/25/02 Updated the Princess Mononoke page to the new format.
Updated the A-kon 12 page to the new format.
Added navigation menu buttons to the Sailor Moon Fun Day page, but otherwise left it in the original format in memory of my very first convention page.
12/24/02 Updated the Japan pages to the new format.
Added the flight path map to the first page.
12/16/02 Added navigation menu buttons to the guest book.
12/1/02 Updated the A-kon 10 page to the new format with larger photos
Added the navigation menu buttons to several pages.
11/29/02 Updated the Anime Express III and IV pages to the new format with larger photos.
11/18/02 Discovered and fixed a problem with my 404 missing file page because it would sometimes return bad pointers to the rest of the site.
11/17/02 Added more pictures and details to my Japan page. Added hyperlinks to the mouse-over pictures as well in case folks have problems with the JavaScript.
11/10/02 Added geographic maps to my Japan page.
10/27/02 Made some changes to better organize the convention pages. It will likely result in missing link errors, but the 404 page will catch those.
10/13/02 Updated the Family Page a bit
9/29/02 Added a few more pictures and text to my Japan page.
9/14/02 Truly a day in history. My main counter finally broke 100,000 total daily hits. That's about 75 unique users a day since May and about 42 unique users a day since the site was created in February, 1996.
9/8/02 Finally, finally added the Anime Express V page.
Designed a new presentation format for con pages.
Updated my family page and changed to the new format.
9/7/02 The countdown continues. Due to licensing by ADV, I've removed the first two seasons of Sailor Moon from my distribution list.
9/2/02 My fifth major facelift and third banner. Once again, my new banner was created specially for me by Scortia-chan. And after 6 years, I've finally retired my Akane wallpaper.
(Phoenix Anime Version 6)
8/18/02 Added the Trip to Japan web page.
5/4/02 Main counter broke 90,000 total daily hits. That's about 60 unique users a day since November.
11/24/01 Main counter broke 80,000 total daily hits. That's about 65 unique users a day since June.
11/22/01 Huge update to my Anime Available page. Pulled Marmalade Boy from the list.
11/11/01 Update my DVD page to use the data from my profiler list
8/5/01 Added the Anime Express II page
Added the Anime Express IV page
Modified the main page to better link the various convention pages
7/15/01 Added the 3rd Annual AFSM Party page
6/19/01 Main counter broke 70,000 total daily hits. That's about 75 unique users a day since February.
6/5/01 Added the Project A-Kon 2001 Cosplay page.
4/8/01 Huge, huge update to the Sailor Moon Musical selections. Many new musicals have been added and old ones have been replaced with higher quality masters thanks to Glen Pearce.
2/3/01 Main counter broke 60,000 total daily hits. That's about 65 unique users a day since August.
10/31/00 I removed the DiC Sailor Moon dubs from my Anime Available page.
9/9/00 Added a separate requests email address to the Anime Available page to help automate the request process
9/4/00 Made some modifications to the AFS-M Posters page 
Changed the age field to a birthday field to make it easier to keep the page up to date
9/2/00 Updated my Private Collection page to include my DVDs and added a link to it on my main banner.
9/1/00 I removed the Sailor Moon Super and SuperS seasons from my Anime Available page. I mourn their passing, but rejoice for the new Pioneer DVD releases yet to come.
8/31/00 Main counter broke 50,000 total daily hits. That's an amazing 90 unique users a day since May. And that's not counting the hundreds of Sailor Moon mp3 downloads that have taken place.
8/28/00 Added the 2nd Annual AFSM Party page
7/8/00 Created custom error pages
7/2/00 Made extensive changes to the Anime Available page. Added a Canadian rate chart. Expanded on the instructions for requesting tapes.
6/22/00 Due to the large number of kids now accessing my Jupiter Proof page, I toned down some of the content. If you still want to view the original, I renamed it to proofold.htm.
6/6/00 Added the Project A-Kon Cosplay page.
5/27/00 Switched my HTML editor to FrontPage 2000. Had to let it re-upload all the pages and files. Took about 6 hours.
5/11/00 Main counter broke 40,000 total daily hits. That's about 55 unique users a day since November.
4/23/00 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
3/26/00 Added the Anime Express III Cosplay page
3/18/00 Big changes!!
Changed my email address to Phoenix@phoenixanime.com
Moved my page to http://www.phoenixanime.com
I now have both the com and org domains for Phoenix Anime
Added a new page, Princess Mononoke or Bust!
Added a guest book page
(Phoenix Anime Version 5)
2/12/00 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
Made a few changes to my main page
2/3/00 Registered my own domain http://www.phoenixanime.org
11/16/99 Main counter broke 30,000 total daily hits. That's about 50 unique users a day since May
10/17/99 Using info J-me provided, I added a few more details to the A-kon Party page
9/19/99 Added the all important introduction of Ami to Makoto to the Jupiter Proof page
9/5/99 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
7/18/99 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
7/12/99 Updated the main page a bit and added a link to the AFSM party page
7/9/99 Added the 1st Annual AFSM Party page
7/5/99 Added alot of magical girl series to my Anime Available page.
Added an excellent AFSM profile form to my AFSM page created by Racso1983
6/30/99 Added the last four volumes of Sailor Moon Stars to my Anime Available page
Pulled the Sailor Moon movies since they are going commercial
6/27/99 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
5/31/99 Greatly expanded the Jupiter Proof page
5/16/99 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
5/11/99 Main counter broke 20,000 total daily hits. That's about 40 unique users a day since September.
4/18/99 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
3/20/99 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
3/19/99 Updated my Anime Available page
3/2/99 Changed the banner for my page. This new banner was created specially for my web page by Scortia-chan. Dumped the Java hover buttons.
(Phoenix Anime Version 4)
2/28/99 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
1/30/99 Updated and modified my Anime Available page
1/24/99 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
12/18/98 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
11/1/98 Added Ai-chan pics to Katsura page
10/25/98 Modified the Naoko Takeughi art page
Added Katsura Masakazu art page
10/18/98 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
10/10/98 Made some adjustments to my main page to correct Netscape problems
9/10/98 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
9/3/98 This is my best estimate of when my main counter broke 10,000. That's about 11 users a day since I started this page.
8/9/98 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
7/19/98 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
7/12/98 Added tables to my main page to separate the text and pics
7/3/98 Made extensive updates to my entire site
Removed the Video Girl Ai "I Love You" midi song for now
Added more reviews for Josh Sez
Added individual page counters to every page using Fast Counter
6/29/98 Changed the tapes I offer to custom spooled Fuji brand
6/9/98 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
5/24/98 Replace the GIF menu button with Java hover buttons
5/22/98 Moved my page to Media One.
5/10/98 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
4/22/98 Changed background to non-scrolling (watermark)
4/12/98 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
3/7/98 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
Added a AFSM pin ownership column
2/16/98 Added a way cool Deja News search form created by Racso1983 to the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
2/15/98 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
Finished the first post column
2/1/98 Greatly expanded on the family page
1/31/98 Updated Josh Sez and added a few new reviews
Cleaned up the pages a bit
1/25/98 Switched to FrontPage 98. Updated and reposted all pages
1/11/98 Added more items to the Anime Available page.
Updated the main page a bit
1/8/98 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
Added the first post column
12/7/97 Added a new "Jupiter Yes Proof" page
12/5/97 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
11/3/97 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
11/1/97 Added more items to the Anime Available page
10/5/97 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
9/21/97 Added a new image page for Sailor Moon Art Book #5
9/13/97 Added a new review to Jenny Sez
8/31/97 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
8/23/97 Added a bunch more items to the Anime Available page
8/16/97 Added the Sailor Moon Fun Day '97 Page. This was my first ever convention page.
7/29/97 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
6/7/97 Updated the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
Added a new review to Jenny Sez
5/23/97 Net-Trak went bust, so I had to take it out
Added some more items to the Anime Available page
5/17/97 Added the Alt.Fan.Sailor-Moon Posters page
Updated the main page some
5/9/97 Restructured my web page to put the images in a separate directory
3/29/97 Updated my comments and softened my background image to make text easier to read
3/26/97 Added Net-Trak to my main pages
Added a bunch of items to the Anime Available page
2/5/97 Added the Video Girl Ai "I Love You" midi song to the main page
1/21/97 Lots of changes!! New title bar, new profiles section on the Sailor Senshi and even more items on the Anime Available page.
(Phoenix Anime Version 3)
12/22/96 Added a few more items to the Anime Available page
12/7/96 Added a pointer to the Anime Web Turnpike along with a few more items to the Anime Available page
11/27/96 Dressed up the various pages a bit
11/26/96 Added comments to Jenny Sez
11/12/96 Added link to the Ring of Eternal Sailormoon
11/9/96 Added images to Josh and Jenny Sez pages
10/28/96 Added a link to A Parent's Guide to Anime
10/27/96 Added several more anime reviews to Josh Sez
10/20/96 Added a comments page for my daughter Jennifer along with a few more items to the Anime Available page
10/12/96 Added a link to the Save Our Sailors home page. If you ever want Sailor Moon to return to American TV, Please check out this site. Moved site to Prodigy.net
9/1/96 Added the family page to my web site
8/20/96 Added a comments page for my son Josh
8/11/96 Totally updated my home page using Microsoft FrontPage. Formally named the web page "Phoenix Anime" based on a suggestion by my son Josh
(Phoenix Anime Version 2)
2/13/96 Created this web page and started the main web counter
(Phoenix Anime Version 1)

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