PPT History

The second year, a year of expansion: January 2002 - December 2002
In January 2002, the world once again opened its eyes to sky blue layout. Re-designed by Ben Williams from www.hologramdesigns.com, this layout became the epitome of the playful, cheery, mischievous and fun atmosphere this site.

Early Febuary 2002, marking the first birthday of PPT, Mike joined to head the battlepedia department, providing in depth information and statistics to all battledome related aspects on Neopets, the battlepedia proved to be a big hit instantly. Quickly growing into a large site itself, Mike leant towards the direction of PHP programming and MySQL database work where he quickly learned the ins and outs of programming.

The site forums opened up to the general public proving to be a big hit instantly. With over 600 signups in one week, Bob, the epitome of a good role model, with quite an exhaustive and extensive vocabulary quickly proved himself of administration quality and while guiding Yukio with many little problems in regards to the forums, was quickly picked to take over admin-ship of the forums. Alongside Bob supporting the smooth running of the forums were the friendly Michelle, a lass who once sent in a sign saying "PPT rox my sox!", Janie, a stunning model with two beautiful children, passionate ChromeFox, somewhat a celebrity for her run ins with the infamous Mari Jhane saga and all the mods with impeccable skill. The forums were riddled with problems however. The first host, powweb, proved an excellent host for the beginning. As the forum sign ups increased, PowWeb was forced to cancel PPT's account under their hosting company because PPT simply used too much bandwich. In a bid to solve this problem, PPT was approached by an admin at YaBB with an offer to host PPT's forums under the consideration that it would change to the mysql version. This host however proved unable to handle PPT's visitor load so the account was frozen after one day. PPT then found a new host called aplus. However all the membership information was inadvertedly lost. Deciding to start fresh, the mysql version of YaBB was once again used but due to many false information about 'unlimited system resources' claimed by aplus, PPT forums were constantly down because like other hosts, they were unable to accommodate the growing fan base and visitor load. Once again reverting back to Yabb CGI in the hope that the forum problems would be solved, the forum once again went down after one week.

With the implementation of the news feature generously installed by NeoFan who worked with Neo-Net, site updating became a simple task with a little click on a button. Joining the team were three extremely charming ladies with wit to match, Amanda, Sarah and Silver!

With the tremendous growth in all the emails the site was receiving, robot_blumaroo offered to take care of all NeoPet related questions. He stayed with PPT for approximately three months before opting out. The help link was then redirected to the forum help boards.

In the month of July 2002, (Yukio's birthday), PPT was introduced to a fine young man who would later shape the future of PPT. Skilled in many programming languages, the bloke under the name of Sam quickly became one of the team, sharing ideas, creating extra features on the site and in many regards, co-webmasters the entire site itself. His uncanny ability to be able to fully grasp any concept explored and put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard left the entire team staring open mouthed at his deftness, precision and timely responses to any emergency arises.

In September 2002, NeLLa joined PPT as a guide writer surpassing over 200 applicants in the first 24 hours of the notice being posted. With guides such as Swarm and Evil Fuzzles From Beyond the Stars under her belt, her writing skills possessed a jovial quality which was a major factor in deciding the final application.

Also in this month, Harry joined PPT to head the NeoDaq, a department providing information related to the stock market game in Neopets. During this time, PPT's new host aplus was experiencing trouble's with handling PPT's battlepedia and forum load. Reflected in constant down times and numerous forum restarts, Yukio approached Ted from simgateway and bought dedicated hosting from www.doublehost.net.

Well there you have it! Despite many hosting problems, PPT still remains one of the most popular gaming resource on the net due to its personality, its voice, and its ability to provide in-depth information on all aspects of Neopets reflect its love for the game. Until then, I'll see you around the site!

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