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[Blog Updates]

Anime Banzai! is now officially ver3 ! (as of hosted on animeblogger), I have equipped it with K2 and modified a little on it. There are some additions and modifications to the entire log. Along with the antenna’s recent update that includes a icon for the blog, i have a submission on it as well. Do take note though, the blog has problems with IE6, hence I decided to change the requirements to view this blog from IE7 and firefox only. The changelog is at the bottom of this post.

Next, I have decided to make this blog open to guest writers. Yup! One of the reasons that I registered for this blog was to mainly set the foundation of it and let people who wanted to blog on random articles related to japanese culture, animes or any otaku related events, merchandise a chance to do so and yet does not have to put in a lot of commitment due to lack of time for school or work. Existing bloggers are welcomed to do so as well, my aim is to make it a blog for fans, by fans. While I know this is hard, I have decided to make this as a general concept for Anime Banzai!. As the title implies, BANZAI! The way on how it works, please refer to details of this post below. I will post up the details on the header under “about abanzai” later as well.

Lastly, I thank all of have visited the blog, while Anime Banzai! isnt as popular as many others from many aspects, it is important for me to thank those who had contributed suggestions, banners, etc and also you guys who had visited my blog often. In addition, I would like to thank jellokun and Runningkid for providing their episode summaries and welcome them here as well. :P

Version3 is now official, however, I will still move sidebar items around and do some slight cosmetic changes to it but main theme is set. V3 on K2 (modified).

+++ Registering as a Writer for Anime Banzai! +++

The process is pretty easy. Just send a email to the blog (abanzai at animebloggerD0Tnet) with your primary email address, indicating your details:

Subject of email: Requesting to be guest writer

In the body of the email, please put in the following -

• Your Blog Alias (the nickname that will appear on the blog when you post)
• Your name (Optional but it is part of the registration fields for your account)
• Your blog’s website URL (Optional)
• What will you be mainly posting (e.g: episode summary writer, eroge game summariser?, game reviewer, etc etc or you are gonna post any random articles subjected to the blog)

Send the email and I will respond to you asap with your login password (you can change the password after you login).

You will be subjected to a Contributer account type only and I will have to vet it to make sure it is of the right catergory, appears right on the page and subjected to the rules for Animeblogger. The most important reason is to schedule your post so that it does not crash with another writer’s post together.

++++ CHANGELOG FOR ANIME BANZAI v3 ++++

+ Changed the theme to K2 and done some modifications to it
+ Added a episode summary dropdown on the blog
+ Added Poll System
+ Included a marquee for blog news and short updates.
+ Added “Users Online”
+ Added “Mini Stats” for blog age
+ Added “Previews” meant for animes, games, etc. Information is not from blog writers but sources.
+ Added background color to comment background when a writer’s owner comments in his own post (must be registered)
+ Added Calendar
+ Added RSS on the left sidebar
+ Added another sidebar
- Removed Shoutbox
- Removed header text
/ Changed archives to dropdown box
/ Layout of sidebar items are changed (subjected to more changing)
/ width of center post for big images are limited to 600px wide
/ Web browser requirements altered. IE6 is no longer supported. Blog looks best on IE7 and Firefox
/ Blog background color changed. Comestic changes to the overall colours of the blog