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The State of the Website Address: Year Two
by Jason DeShaw

It's really quite hard to believe that PsychoNoble.com is now officially two years old.  I feel like just yesterday I was just writing The State of the Website Address:  Year One and here I am doing Year Two.  Crazy.

Any-hoo, the reason for this article is quite simple; take a look back at the year that was and take a look into the year that will be.

This year has been an eventful (forgive the pun) year for our Events section.  It started off deep in the Fargo winter where The Fargo Home Office took sledding to the XTREME!  Incorporating playground equipment and shovels set to the tune of White Wedding, Brady, Jordan, and Alex greatly expanded on the original Xtreme Sledding idea.  And of course Jordan almost killed himself.  It was a grand Event.

Back in the Pacific Northwest, I did my own winter event, Winter in the West.  Myself and Matt experienced just what winter life was like in the greater Seattle area as we had snowball fights with tennis balls, made mud angels, and constructed a snow man out of logs.

The Fargo based Events did not stop with Xtreme Sledding though, as Brady introduced the ongoing Event know as Life in the Upper Midwest.  LUM takes a look at just what life can be like when you have nothing to do.  This introduced more videos that involved everything from Anthropology to Wrestling.  Ok, that was just one of the videos, but really, there's a bunch.  And of course there is the latest addition to LUM, Doltbots.  It answers the question of what happens when you combine Battlebots with the Upper Midwest.  I think it's the best thing yet.

I also had one final Miscellaneous event in year two which was my trip to Comic-Con International in San Diego.  It was a nerd's dream come true.

I'm not sure what the future for Events holds, as I have retired from Freestyle Walking and haven't heard much on the Fargo front, but rest assured we will think of something.

As of this writing we are nearly approaching our 100th Article.  It's amazing to think that we really have that much to say, but we do and they keep coming.  Articles are the foundation of PsychoNoble and will continue to be as such for as far as I can see.

Reviews, on the other hand, are still lacking.  We had a few additions this year, but when compared to the amount of Articles being put up, Reviews could use a good boost.  As last year my goal was more Events (which I feel was achieved), this year I would like to focus more of my personal efforts on Reviews and Pathetic Tributes.

We didn't have any new Pathetic Tributes this year even though we have a few planned.  I think the reason these things don't get done is they are really pretty big projects.  They usually require some research as well as pages of material.  Even so, I think in the end they are worth it, as the two we have (Bill Brasky, Doug Funnie) bring in huge amounts of traffic to our site.

Speaking of huge projects that aren't getting finished, Story of Trek continues to be one of those things that take forever to get done.  We made some progress during the Summer with the PsychoNoble Summit, but we are still far from finished.  Alex says that when we are finally finished, he will make The Story of Story of Trek.  Stay tuned for that in about 8 years.

This year we introduced the Multimedia section, where we can post randomness that doesn't fit anywhere else as well as some desktops and buddy icons for the general public.  I think this is a good addition to the site and while still quite small, will be a mainstay for years to come.

We've slowly been putting together a real store for the site, but for now it seems somewhat stalled.  We have a few things cooking, but until we actually have more than a FSW Pillow, I don't think the store will go up.

The Crazygame.exe High Score Contest still remains one of the more popular features on our site.  The high scores are beginning to become untouchable without dedicating your life to Crazygame, but alas new scores keep coming in as well as generating lots of traffic.  There is a demand for Crazygame!

I'd say something about the Message Boards, but I feel like what I said in Year One still holds true, so I'm just going to copy and paste what I wrote then for you now...

    As you can see, I like to plug the Message Boards a lot.  This is because I believe that having a strong community is necessary for a prosperous website.  Although our Message Boards are anything but popular, they are active and add to the website experience.  Often I post news that isn't found on the main website or ask for people's thoughts on different topics.  It's a great way to get in touch with the people who run this site directly and voice your own opinions of things you want to see.  There are also the great off-topic banters such as Skeletons Vs Zombies which was brought to our attention by our own Brady Lewis.  So if you have time, stop by and say "hi".

Now onto some fun facts about the year that was!

-So far this year we've had over 42,000 visits.

-In October, 9 out of 10 searches that found our site were either Bill Brasky or Doug Funnie related.  The other was Crazygame.exe

-The FSW video Sabotage is generating way too much traffic.  I speculate someone is linking to it directly from a myspace account, those jerks.

-As opposed to last year, there were no threatened lawsuits!  Hoorah!

-In October, 12% of our visitors came from Brazil... how odd...

So what does the future for PsychoNoble hold?  I speak only for myself with this, but I'd like to see more Pathetic Tributes and Reviews, completion of Story of Trek, and more activity on the Message Boards.  Will any of these things happen in the next year?  Stay tuned for State of the Website Address: Year Three to find out!