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August 2006 (17 replies/342 views)
kampkrusty.net
A little inside information in a British accent assured me the widely popular Simpsons Home Radio will be returning very shortly. Yours truly will be guest-speaking.

kampkrusty.net/tsw
Simpsons Wired has undergone a changing of the guards. Damien stepped down in an update on August 6th, and Stephen picked up later that day. The future for the premiere links site looks bright.

lardlad.com
Adam is reported to have taken his most ambitious step yet in web-design: multi-layouts. Not much is known at the moment, but St. Jukka had this to say: "looking forward to see how adam is going to do it."

krustylustudios.com/nick
Last month I mentioned a teaser page found at the above URL. It was changed at some time and is now advertising a Dr. Nick and Fat Tony amalgamation page.

thesimpsonsmon.net
Simpsons Mon released its third design at the end of July. The colors are sort of overly basic and plain but an improvement over the last. A rumor is also being whispered that Simpsons Mon will be merging with 80 D'ohs or iSimpson.

muntzmania.com
Muntz Monument will apparently close its doors in November. Webmaster Stephen explicitly stated in a Lisa Land update that he will not renew the domain. I pointed all the hosted sites in the direction of Simpsons Host.

skype.com
I have a line-up of presenters for the audio-broadcast Simpsons Zip Choice 06, but I need two or three more. If you're interested, all you need to do is download Skype. No extra peripherals are necessary.

lardlad.com/bart
What's this, what's this? I can't tell if it's old or new, but I'm intrigued either way.

babysimpson.co.uk/lisa
Lisa the Beauty Queen shut down earlier this month. Although it's one of the better character sites in the community, many had trouble controlling their giggles.

keytospringfield.com
Still no sign of activity a month after the much-applauded teaser page appeared.

simpsonshost.com
Simpsons Host opened at some random exact time, and the response has been mostly positive. Though the design was made by a third party, the biggest complaint is that there is no assurance of longevity.

simpsoncrazy.com
Scott is redesigning Simpson Crazy, and Adam brought up the issue of ownership. Ben has long been uninvolved and at times unattainable; SC seems to be almost exclusively run by Scott. I also mentioned this in an interview with him at the beginning of the summer. And I don't want to discredit Ben in any way, but Simpson Crazy was never at the top of my list until Scott took the reins.

disadvantage of mega-hosts
Simpsons Central is a dead testament to the danger of having one or two sites host the majority of starter-sites. 10 sub-hosted sites shut down after Simpsons Central closed earlier this year. Note: This was written before Simpsons Host opened, not meant at an overt comment on that.

grabpic-use
A whiny girly-man recently brought up the issue of grabpic-use. It all comes down to one thing: overprotectiveness. If you make a grabpic and post it online, it's assumed other webmasters will use it for their projects. What other point would there be? I'll even venture so far as to say credit isn't necessary, though it's certainly a nice gesture.

third-party designers
Third-party web-design has become increasingly common on the internet, and The Simpsons community seems to currently be falling to its wrath. I'd say more than 75% of new sites are designed by people other than their webmasters. Stop it. I'd rather see an OK design made by the webmaster over a LETS-level masterpiece made by a third-party any day.





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