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Owning and running a Dragon Ball website isn't as easy as most people would think. Sure, it can be difficult to run any sort of site, but I haven't got much experience in that area (although I do have 2 other sites, knight of JURAI, a Tenchi site, and crewMANIA, a personal site I share with my friend-that's enough of the cheep advertising, at least for now). I tend to get a lot of stick in school. Most webmasters of DBZ sites at one time must have been met with the response "what the hell is that?" or "why have you got a site on that?", I never seem to understand the confused look I get when I say back "Its an anime" and "because I like it". Just the other day, someone was laughing 'cos I watch Cartoon Network. Someone else I know is always going off at me about my site being crap. The other week he said to me while I was checking my site from school that my site "was a load of crap", but when I turned around and said "excuse me, but I have put months of hard work gone into this site", he just looked at me like I had wings coming out of my ass. The whole "its just a cartoon site" thing just so gets on my nerves sometimes. I mean, Duh its just a cartoon, I had noticed that, but most good webmasters work really hard on their site and try to make it worth visiting. If you are not a fan, then of course you aren't going to be interested in going on a DBZ site, but that doesn't give you the excuse to insult the webmasters work, so if anyone else has this problem, just tell what ever insolent idiotic person is insulting you and your talents to have a bit of respect. Better still, feel free to use my favorite lines, "excuse me, but I have put months of hard work gone into this site", or "well, lets see your site then". Not that I don't enjoy doing this site, I mean, Its probably my main hobby, but the work load sometimes can't half be tough. There is no point in having a site if you are not going to work on it, If you make it and then leave it to fend for its self, you are a pretty bad webmaster. Fair enough if you just want to do it for the sake of doing it to fill up some free time, but you can't moan when your site isn't popular and doesn't get enough hits. Myself, I try as much as I can to keep this site up to date, but lets face it, if you update, update and update, you are either going to work yourself into an institute, or completely run out of web space straight off the bat. Worse still, you are going to run out of things and ideas and people, including you are going to all too soon get bored of the thing. Sometimes, I don't seem to realize how much time I spend on this site, and when I have finished, it looks as though I have don't little or hardly anything. I am the only one who does this site, so unlike most sites of this size, all the work load is mine to bare, I don't have any staff, but to be honest, I don't really want any. Sure, I would love for someone to take some of the work off me and add some themselves, but that seems all to fussy for me. I guess its me being a bit greedy or even big headed, but this is all my work and I kinda want it to stay that way. having a hand full of staff would make this thing seem more like a business than a hobby and I don't think I would fancy the responsibility which would go hand in hand with having further staff for the site. So, at least for now, I think it'll stay just little old me, even if the updates are few and far between, I think I manage ok, just don't go expecting miracles to happen every time you visit me. Out side of the web, we DBZ webmasters don't have a pretty good reputation either. I know of hardly any people who like DBZ, those who do are usually a few years younger than me, and I'm the only girl I know who is into anime at all, never mind DBZ. So liking DBZ (a cartoon on Cartoon Network as the unenlightened would know it as), being a girl and liking DBZ, being a 16 year old girl who likes DBZ, and worse still, a 16 year old girl who likes DBZ and has a website on it, doesn't really do much for my popularity in school. But do I care? Does it bother me?-Well, actually, it does, but only because everyone is to stupid not to recognize a good thing when they see it. But I'm quite proud of my site (at times-I mean there are times when it does nothing but get right on my.....). I don't think I could ever deal with the pressure of having a massively popular site like Planet Namek or King Nothing, when ever I visit either of these sites the webmasters seem to be stressed about server or host problems (not to mention it costs them a fortune). I started this site for me, any extra I get from visitors is just a massive bonus.
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