User:DanJ/GoNintendo

GoNintendo is a Nintendo gaming news information, bloging, and weekly podcasting site. Gonintendo covers the latest Nintendo console news on the Nintendo DS and the Nintendo Wii. Gonintendo was founded in August 2005 by Kevin Cassidy. He is known as RawmeatCowboy on the website.

History
The main site originally started with nintndonow.blogspot.com. The site eventually grew thanks the the popularity of the podcast and soon gonintendo.com was created. The original blog started on July 30, 2005, at exactly 9:23 PM. The blog's creator, RawmeatCowboy, intended that the site would be "the number one Nintendo blog FOR and BY Nintendo fans everywhere."

Eventually the blog got a new home on October 16, 2005, www.gonintendo.com. However on April 12th, 2007 the site had crashed, making the site lose about a weeks worth of posts. The boards were hit even harder though, losing 8 months.The main site is a host of various stories.

Site Editors
Active Staff

Site Owner/Director /Content Developer Kevin Cassidy

Editor-in-Chief Kevin Cassidy

The Webmaster Kevin Cassidy

Head News Writer Kevin Cassidy

Staff Writers Kevin Cassidy, Bethany Bergstrom, Doug Kaplan, Andrew Kormondy, Danielle Nugent, Michael Lubinski, Michael Covino, Aaron Hoffmann,

Messageboards Administration Aaron Hoffman

Site Maintenance Aaron Hoffman, Kevin Cassidy

Messageboards
The GoNintendo MessageBoards were created by site founder, RawmeatCowboy, on October 5, 2005, and officially made public at 12m EST on October 16, 2005. It currently serves over 2000 members.

In light of his maintenance and other duties on the main site alongside Rawmeat, Cortjezter was made Administrator of the boards, and quickly set out in secrecy to develop a custom visual solution instead of foisting the default subSilver theme upon users that many other sites use.

The custom theme for phpBB was designed and created entirely by Cortjezter, and publicly unveiled in the first week of March 2006. This theme, along with several other functional enhancements, was captured in the above picture on October 30, 2006 by JasonWin and remains the primary theme of the board.

Future plans for the boards include an upgraded system following the public release of phpBB v3.0 expected sometime during 2007. A private GoNintendo beta site is being run and tested readying that version. Many new features and enhancements will be available.

Sections of Site
The sections of the site are divided into ten features. These features can be viewed on the right side of the website. Most of the gaming updates in the middle of the site. Advertisements are off to the side of the site and are on the bottom of some of the articles posted on Gonintendo. The ten sections of the site are as followed:

Podcast this is were you can download the latest podcast from Gonintendo onto your computer or off the Gonintendo iTunes page which is updated weekly and free. There are usual 7 members on the podcast and sometimes guest appear on the show. The most recent example of a guest was on episode 129 with Lindsy.

Messageboards here users can have forums on topics of Nintendo information. The Gonintendo message boards are run by Aaron Hoffmann known on Gonintendo as Cortjezter. There are currently 2511 members on the Gonintendo Messageboards. That number keeps growing daily and the newest memeber is ecco6t9.

Chat Room in this room which is called the Gonintendo IRC you can use your account that you create on the site to login and chat with other people who are on the site. This is one of the more popular sections of Gonintendo. Also during podcasts you may get your questions anwsered on the After Show by Mom Brain.

Contact Us for this feature you can email any questions, ideas that you have, or news stories you have for the Gonintendo Crew. If you do email a question or a news story to the Gonintendo Crew they will do their best to get in touch with you.

Active Staff for this part of the site you can see all of the staff that is currently working on Gonintendo. The list is updated to be able to see who is currently working on the site to provide the latest gaming updates. It also shows people who are on the Gonintendo Podcast.

Features Articles this are articles on special features that RawmeatCowboy posts on stories that differ than the average game news on the site. Some of these articles can be funny or they can review certain products.

Submit Music for this section memebers of Gonintendo can submit music from only the Nintendo library of systems. Also no remixes or midi files are allowed as well. The way to send songs is to email them to Nicky Hill. He is the one in charge of getting the music for the podcasts each week.

Wiki this Wiki was created by the user JasonWin on October 16th, 2006.This creates pages for most of the members in the GoNintendo Community as well as much more information on everything GoNintendo. In order to edit the pages on this wiki you have to be a member, so please be patient while your request is processed.

Oekaki it's meant for displaying images that you draw using the offered on site paint applets. There is a option for uploads in case you wish to share a picture you've done in the past, on another board, or is relevant.

Myspace when you click on this you are linked straight to the Gonintendo Myspace Page. On this page you can add it to your friends list but only if your signed up to Myspace. This is a place for Gonintendo members and people who have never heard of the site. This is also run by Cortjezter.

IRC Chat
The GoNintendo IRC Room is a chat room for the signed up users of Gonintendo and it is free to all. It was origionally created by fan DevilsRejection. It's evolvedalot since it's early years and used to be moderated by users Ku and Big_J. Unfortunately Ku and Big_J left the chatroom later on because of the lack of time. The chatroom was moderated by Kuraitenshinkun, Uzukinaruto, Ragnarok, Bethany and Catchphrase for a few months. Ku returned to to the IRC as the channel owner and co-owner along side Catchphrase.

But the first GoNintendo chat room was a java based that never got used. As soon as the IRC room was started it was a hit. It has continued to grow and become one of the most popular features on the site.

Podcasts
The GoNintendo Podcast is a general Nintendo-centric podcast hosted by the various staff members of GoNintendo.com. A new episode is released every Sunday, usually released in the early hours of the morning.

Nintendo News Usually the Nintendo News section composes the first half the podcast. This section recaps the week's major events in the of Nintendo.

Nicky Hill's Sweet Releases This section of the show has podcast crew member Nicky Hill relaying the upcoming week's game releases.

Messageboard Questions In this section of the podcast, crew members answer questions posted by the various messageboard members. Questions range from serious topics like video game to the comical.

Guess The Music This section is hosted by Nicky Hill. Podcast listeners can send in video game tracks for the the crew member's to guess its originating game.

Live Stream Every Saturday about 15 minutes before the podcast will begin, RawMeatCowboy puts on a live stream of the podcast on StickCam. This way not only can those who really want to can see the podcast early while getting the bonus to see how the podcast table works. Than when the podcast is over, he will leave the cam on until it is time for him to edit the podcast.