This site was undertaken on October 5, 2004. I have loved Aqua Teen Hunger Force since the beginning, and when I looked around on the internet, I noticed there was no good site. Even the Adult Swim website, which does have interesting things on there, does not have any good media. I wanted to create a great website to spread the love of the show to people who may not have even heard of it.
This is the first design I came up with. I was just playing around with some things and needed a visual to figure out which direction I was going to take the site. Obviously it's not exactly the greatest thing in the world, and I needed something much better before I showed it to anybody.
The second design was the one I finally settled on and went live with on October 21st of 2004. It served the site very well and was retired on December 27th, 2005. It received complaints about being too difficult to read and poor font choices, so I ultimately had to further simplify the design.
The third design was a heavily revised version of design two. It featured a cleaner content column with an added third column for recent updates or television air dates.
The fourth (and current) design was a small revision of design 3. I expanded the center column and made the text easier to read. It has been the featured design since December 24th, 2007.
Memorable Dates
November 3rd, 2004 - Frame grabs section is completed
December 16th, 2004 - First time over 100 unique visitors in 1 day
January 10th, 2005 - First time over 250 unique visitors in 1 day
January 30th, 2005 - Sound section is completed
February 22nd, 2005 - First time over 500 unique visitors in 1 day
April 13th, 2005 - First time over 1000 unique visitors in 1 day
July 27th, 2005 - First time over 1500 unique visitors in 1 day
August 2nd, 2005 - First time over 2000 unique visitors in 1 day
December 12th, 2005 - First time over 2500 unique visitors in 1 day
December 27th, 2005 - The site features its third design
Single Day Unique Visitors Record: 4,730
Webmaster
My name is Josh Maurer and I'm from Des Moines, Iowa. I graduated Magna Cum Laude from Drake University in 2007 with a degree in Accounting. I graduated from the Drake University Masters of Accounting program and sat for the CPA exam in 2008. I am married and have a crazy dog. I have created many websites in the past, mostly for The Simpsons. If you're interested in checking those out, the links are below.
