Hold Fast is the shrine I chose for the Revamp Marathon - a tribute to Duncan MacLeod of Highlander: The Series.


For the marathon, I've created a new design (Vive la Paris!) and rewritten nearly all the articles so that they're engaging to newcomers and fans alike; I've added screen captures and music - even a little action figure photo-story. The One Vision (media) section will expand over time.

If you're not too familiar with Highlander, you can watch the entire series on YouTube. (Or just a couple episodes.)

Anyway, shrine feedback appreciated - many thanks.

Happy February ♥ This month we have Teri (paper-clouds.org) picking animanga and Tamisa (limit-break.net) picking nonanimanga.

Remember, if you would like to VOLUNTEER to pick SOTM sometime, please let me know! We'd love to have you help out :) If you're interested (and we'd prefer that you have one or more shrines under your belt before picking), tell me which category you'd like to be in charge of and we'll see what we can work out. Just shoot me a PM or an email or you can go to the communication post which is linked in the community sidebar. Thanks!

We pick one unique shrine from each category (animanga and non-animanga, aka games/books/movies/etc) each month, based on the nominations we get. Anyone can nominate any shrine they enjoy. There's no special requirement. Nominate a lot of shrines!

If you're not sure what shrines to nominate, we do have the directory for your convenience, but of course nominated shrines do not have to belong to current members, so there's even more listed on the other shrine directories we have linked on the community sidebar.

A couple things to make note of:
❶ Feel free to recommend shrines for both or either one of the categories, and be sure to not only leave the url, but explain why you feel that shrine should win. You're trying to convince someone to pick it after all!
❷ You can nominate the same shrine for several months. If yours is not picked this month, feel free to nominate it again and keep your reason exactly the same. The nomination queue is cleared each month.
❸ The winning shrines can be shrines made by members of this community and members not in the community.
❹ You may make more than one nomination for either or both categories.
➎ Please put each nomination in a separate comment under the appropriate category.

Comments are screened. Nominations will close on February 15! You know what to do! Let's really give those deserving shrines some love, people. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. :)

For my revamp marathon assignment I chose my Meowth shrine: Modest Mouser. I had went through a phase around the time I started it of shrinking all of my sites and making them smaller, then I thought that I really wanted to build everything up as much as I could. Sometime last year I went through and edited the essays but I felt like it needed more work.

The layout for this, I went through 3 different ones. XD; A process I never usually do but for some reason I was unsatisfied. I finally got a simple one that I liked. As far as content goes, I revamped A LOT, added a bunch of new! media sections, info sections (included expanded anime episodes section, quotes section), tech sections (including movesets for the game and whatnot), and just all around edited things. Anyway, I rambled a lot, but I hope that it's really up to par now. I really got on a roll with this and I never thought I would have so much to say about a Pokemon! XD

I was browsing through shrines today and came across some older ones that had links to TOP SITES on them! How many of you were around/remember the time of top site lists? I know I was and it brought back a sort of wave of nostalgia for me when I thought about all the sites that had tacky buttons posted on them that read "VOTE FOR ME IN THE (blank) TOP SITES!". I had even started a few myself.

What are your thoughts on Top sites? Are they interactive or more like competitive webrings? Did you find them useful or annoying? Would you join or start a topsite for any of your current shrines today? Do you think Top site lists are beneficial to shrines?

I wouldn't mind, personally, I thought they were sort of fun. But you know people like me, we're all about the networking. ;D I think that it might be fun to bring some back minus the tackiness of the original top sites. I personally feel they might even be beneficial for uniting shrines of the same topic that other fans might not even know existed!

So I figured it was time to stop being a lazy butt and actually get myself introduced :) easiest thing is I go by the name Mitzrael, just like my LJ username (see that's easy xD;). I've been in the web-stuff business for some years now but re-telling the whole story would be boring by now, I really don't want to sound as if I'm repeating myself over and over since I know a good number of this community members haha~ so yeah, I will save you from that.

Anyway, I'm the happy owner of a good bunch of domains (6 to the date) which vary on purposes and status and, range from anime/manga to personal stuff not too many people is interested in (go figure lol). I guess the most 'developed' ones are Dokkasou.net  and Our-kingdom.org, the latest being Boys Love oriented (just pointing it out in case it's not your cup of tea :3). As I've stated in almost every single intro!post I've written in my life, my interests are what you would call 'wide', anime and manga being the most prominent since it's one of those things I relate to easily, and I mean relate because I read, watch, listen, collect, create and design mostly focused on anime/manga so I basically have that in mind most of the time.

Shrine wise, I really can't say I've seen it all and much less say I know it all so I guess that's  the reason on joining this community since it sounds like a nice place to talk on both the visitor and the administrator ends which is both, helpful and useful. That's about it I think, nice to meet you all!

I think there are lot of people who think: finally she finished it so now she won't stress anymore with: i don't know what to put ect. Well I'm proud to show my finished shrine that is part of the Revamp Marathon of this fantastic comunity. So I'm proud to introduce my Yuuko Shrine:

Changes made:

• new layout
• re-aranged content
• re-written some content
• written some content
• re-aranged media
• took of some media

Another Summon Night one-page mini shrine: Star-crossed, this one is still quite small, I just got it up. It's dedicated to Pratty and Varyl from Summon Night: Swordcraft Story, with references to Romeo and Juliet. It's made to be more humorous than serious so I hope you'll find it amusing.

I'm here today to announce the January nonanimanga sotm winner. Drumroll please!

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Feel free to leave comments or gifts or whatever! :)

Also, we have a new Member of the Month Moment ... thing. We're still trying to work out the best way to post about this but for now it's here. Anyways, we've chosen Saya (shidaime)! I'll be putting up our comments on the monthly page in a little bit ... although they're not all in yet. Thanks for everything you do, Saya! :)

I am proud to present to you~~

( Hang on to your seats, ladies and gents! )

Yes, we're bringing this back! This was highly successful last time and everybody benefited from the invaluable feedback. As you may have noticed, we are going to make this quarterly, so there will be one roughly every three months, which means you'll always have a place to get opinions on your lovely new shrines.

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