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Well, Detective Conan World is now a year old, everyone! I personally want to thank Maurice for all the hard work in maintaining the entire website, as well as its wiki, its forums, and everything else. Let's all wish this fine website a happy anniversary! I am sure we will hear from Maurice soon, with more to say about this event. Here's to many more years!

I was actually planning to start a thread lol. Well, thanks for the initiative CC! It's pretty cool. Basically, here's what I wanted to say: ------------------------------------------------------------- Detective Conan World has come a long way since its creation! It first started as a pretty basic website based on the famous blogging platform Wordpress. But it already had cool features like a very advanced and attractive Watch section, a wiki and a forum. The motive behind this all was that I was unable to find a lot of resource on the web dedicated to DC. And being the avid fan as I am (and also a Web Developer ), I thought we should really address that situation by ensuring that this great show that is Detective Conan had the honorable place it deserved on the net. A place people from all around the world could gather, have fun and eventually contribute into making the site the number 1 Detective Conan resource. Basically, the one-stop destination for everything DC-related. Anyway, like I was saying, we did come a long way since the grand opening in April 10th, 2009. Here is a list of the biggest events and great achievements we've accomplished (with the help of the community of course): I. The Site - On December 16th, 2009, the site went through its very first major overhaul with a complete redesign on both the front- and back-end. Not being powered by Wordpress anymore, it's now running on CodeIgniter, a fast and popular PHP framework which I have quite some experience working with. This really allowed greater flexibility in both code and design customization. And the result is what you can see right now: a clean, simple-looking, user-friendly and beautiful site! - We've had to take down the popular Watch section at some point for many reasons. Please, refer to the corresponding thread in the News section of the forum for more details. II. The Wiki - The first focus of the wiki (at the time pretty much empty) was to add information about the characters of the show. It went pretty well and is still ongoing. - We've created some awesome and unique templates that you probably never saw in any other wiki. Some examples: * http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Season_1 (Simple yet detailed table about the episodes of the season) * http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/An_Idol's_Locked_Room_Murder_Case (Cool scrolling Cast frame which makes it very reader-friendly. Also, we have cool Profile boxes on the right for many different pages and sections) * http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Setting (Probably the most unique page in the Wiki) * http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Ai_Haibara_Appearances (A custom extension was created for DCW to provide detailed statistics about character appearances. Great source (and organization) of information!) * And many more... - We currently have 823 articles which is just awesome for only 1 year of work! III. The Community - It started quite slow of course, just like for any new start-up. I remember the day our very first member joined: CarpetCrawler! It was quite overwhelming I'll admit as it was a confirmation that I was not the only one supporting the idea of building a great DC site! He's also been a great wiki contributor! To sum up, DCW was already shaping up to be a great community site, truthful to its goal! Then more people started to join and here we are. Thank you again everyone for your support and contributions however small or big they might be. It's a real pleasure to be part of this adventure with all of you! Happy Birthday DCW!