NeopetsGuide is a site that offers everything for the Neopian and the webmaster. We have graphics, guides, tutorials, loads of free services, makers, finders, reads, downloads, and more. We offer one of the most complete collection and one of with the most variety. We strive to be your favorite Neopets site. If there is anything you find unsatisfactory or you’d like to see changed or added, please feel free to contact us! We love comments.
Site History

As told by the owner, Shalane

Many people have asked how I started my site. Well, I was only 12 years old, didn’t have any clue about coding, and had only been on Neopets for a short time. I started a small little website hosted on Geocities that was mostly random with a small neopet help section. It looked really bad. I soon learned basics like hex codes, html tags, etc. I eventually decided to make my neopets section larger, and learned much more and created a decent little site on Geocities. It was fairly popular for a while. I eventually got bored with Neopets and went on to do greater things. (This was when n00bs started popping up everywhere and Neopets didn’t have a lot of security and didn’t freeze people very easily.) I took a break and closed the site.

My dad works with computers, my brother (Ben) is basically a computer genius, and I know enough to maintain my site. When my dad put up servers in my basement (it is crazy to look down there with all of the computers everywhere) I decided to re-open. It was a while coming, since I had always used iframes and decided to use PHP this time. I kept trying to come up with a nice layout, but my color schemes were always way off. I was randomly searching the web and went to Neo-Reality. I just saw the layout and loved it. I don’t think I could have come up with a better set-up. It isn’t that I can’t code, it was just someone had already done everything I wanted to!

I re-opened officially during the early summer 2006, but never gave too much effort to start, in fact, it didn’t have anything but the idea, because I worked all summer. In September, I signed up for a .co.nr site. Once we hit 50 visitors a day I decided to buy the .com. We started to slowly grow from there.

Then in December of 2006, a site called Golden-Neo (located @ golden-neo.co.nr) decided to go ahead and merge with NeopetsGuide. Golden-Neo owner, Ena, an online friend of mine and part-time staff at NeopetsGuide, was great. We merged and Ena became co-owner. After a short while, Ena found she no longer had time for NeopetsGuide and I thought we would once again fall into a dreary time.

A little while went by before I decided to advertise that I’d like another co-owner or site to merge with us. We received many responses and found one really good one, paradiseisland.co.nr. Lauren and I got along great right away so we decided to merge. It has only been a little while so far, and we are still merging, but the future only looks bright!

Some Site Facts
What Is Our Birthday?:
September 12

Who Started The Site?:
Shalane

Who Is The Site Host?:
Host Monster

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