Empire of the Cat Birthday Celebrations – We are one year old this month!
Wednesday, 12 July 2006
The Empire of the Cat domain and site is now one year old this month, and we are celebrating!
It was on the 16th of July 2005, that I opened this site. It’s hard to believe that a whole year has passed already.
There have been a lot of changes over the past year, people have come and gone and during that time we have had 346 people join the forum in total!
I used to have another forum which operated as a Banner Shop, and I also had a separate website, which was 75mb in size and was a collection of things that I was interested in. It wasnt bad as a first attempt but it was just waaay too big and it wasnt integrated.
A portal was what I had in mind, so this site was started and has been in development ever since. People who know me, know well that I like to change things but it is only because I am trying to make the site better,and I am always thinking up ideas and ways to make it better. (I am not addicted to changing the site despite what you might have heard lol.) The forum was changed and expanded and upgraded into what you see today, and is built around a library theme with a check-in desk, a reference desk, a reading room, special collections and a lounge. The site is fully integrated, everything is linked together, and we are building content slowly but surely.
Our Original Online Book Group has read over 30 books in the last year and another 15 are still to come in the remainder of this year! We have had six authors join the board and post with us, and we hope to have many more. We have even obtained special Book Group discounts with one publisher for Shadows over Somerset which will be one of the books featured in August. The author, Bob Freeman, will be leading the discussion, assisted by Nabs, one of our Library Moderators.
More exciting news about the Book Group is that we will be featured as the Book Group of the Month next month on a book group directory site, and will be the first online book group to have that honour! We are also approved and listed with a number of other book related and publisher sites as a Book Group.
If you are finding our site for the first time, and share our love of books and reading and general chatting on the net, then come on in and help us Celebrate!
Elliel
Site Administrator
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