Our Vision

The Daily Neopets is one of the leading Neopets fan sites in the industry. Our simple goal is to reach as many Neopets players as we can and provide to them excellent guides and cheats to assist them with in their journey on Neopets. Hopefully we've accomplished this.

Site Staff

Our team is a one-of-a-kind team that has been together for over 3 years now. Here is our current listing of staff. If you'd like to get in touch with us, don't hesitate to Contact Us. :) If you'd like to check out how you can get on to our team, please click on this page.

Ian Creator and Owner Xepha Content Director Content Team Isabel Ellie Ashley Niki Ryan Metroid oowowaee (Editor)

Superfly News Department Mike Community & Forums Admin Moderators Animetriplicate Matt (operates ALP too)

Our Past and History

This site has a very unique and interesting past... we all go wayyy back.

It started out in October of 2005 when Ian (The Daily Neopets' current owner) contacted Yukio, the owner of PPT. Ian's hope was to start a commentary for PPT (some of you may remember the commentary that ran for a few weeks). The commentary started at PPT and then something happened... Yukio surprised Ian by buying thedailyneopets.com for Ian!

TDN opened October 17th, 2005. The Daily Neopets was originally a branch off PPT. At the time, PPT did not provide unreleased Neopets news like it does now, so TDN's main goal was to provide unreleased Neopets news. Things started off pretty slow with only a few hundred visitors and slow Neopets news. The site looked pretty bad too. :)

The beginning stages of TDN were very, very... boring. The site started off with a sky-blue layout with a Jelly Blumaroo in the banner. The site had barely 10 pages of content and we didn't do very well at providing unreleased Neopets news. Eventually we killed the Jelly Blumaroo in the banner and made a new site layout that was a *bit* more pleasing to the eye.

Shortly thereafter, TDN held a special event entitled "TheDailyNeopets Super Update Week". Each day for one whole week, we'd added lots of articles, then the next day, lots of graphics, then lots of game guides. The SUW helped TDN keep going. Lots of visitors were attracted to the site.

After the SUW, we soon learned that adding a ton of things at once wasn't all that great of an idea. Why? The site's organization and content quality went dooowwwnn the tubes. So, we decided to redo the site, again. Oh joy. :O

This is when TDN v3 came into the picture. The site was totally redone and the organization was most certainly improved. The layout was very simple, yet customizable. People enjoyed the new TDN v3 and were excited that it was here!

Version 3, surprisingly, didn't last too long. On March 11th, we completely redid the site (again... do we see a pattern here?) and it was good. :) The site was very graphic intensive and very pretty. Here is TDN's famous reddish layout that we all came to love. ;)

The Daily Neopets Version 4

Pretty, 'eh? TheDailyNeopets v4 is when TDN grew a LOT. Shortly after the release of v4, the Altador Plot started. TDN was quick to jump in and provide great step-by-step and easy to read Altador help. One again, lots of people were attracted to the site.

Soon after the Altador Plot ended, TDN held its own special site-related plot. Jerry is TDN's mascot and we decided to do a plot about how he was "kidnapped." This went on for about 2 weeks and attracted more visitors than EVER. The forums became very active as well. Lots of people had fun and pulled their hair out. ;)

In July of 2006 we decided to get rid of v4 and move on to a new layout. The new v5 layout was definitely different; plainer, but more content focused. Version 5 was another huge step for The Daily Neopets. Our content amount nearly doubled during v5, with improved organization and increased visitors. Here's the pretty (boring) red layout that we all came to love:

The Daily Neopets Version 5

During v5, two other plots had frazzled the minds of visitors. The "Space Faerie Plot: Scattering of the Stars" followed the player as they frantically searched the site looking for mysterious stars and the puzzles they possessed.

The other plot was aptly named "Halloween Plot", where TDN had their own version of the Haunted Woods, where they would search around for clues as to who had kidnapped Ian.

At the start of April '07, TDN played a little trick on its visitors for April Fool's Day. A tab had appeared labeled "Pretty Petz", which when clicked showed the future of TDN as 'The Daily Pretty Petz', a virtual pet site where owners and their 'PretPets' would dress up and try to impress the world. The crude drawings and plot ideas were only enough to hold true for the one day and so the secret was let out the day after.

This leads us to August of 2007, when The Daily Neopets Y2 (Year 2) was released. We decided to stop using the conventional "version system" and named it Y2 since that was The Daily Neopets second year on the net. During Y2, The Daily Neopets grew (again) and at this point in time, the site received about 20,000 visitors per day. In this point in The Daily Neopets' life, it had been estimated that we had reached over 2 million global Neopets players and had well over 1.5 billion hits to our site. Fantastic, huh!?

The Daily Neopets Y2

Even though The Daily Neopets Y2 introduced many new features and attracted more and more Neopets players... it was not one of our better "works", if you know what I mean. We had a pretty bad navigation system with unalphabetized article lists and sometimes those lists exceeded 200 links. Our search feature didn't provide any help either... many relevant pages were at the bottom of our search results. To make things prettier, we released The Daily Neopets Y3, in celebration of The Daily Neopets' third year in operation (Year 3). We now have a consistent navigation on all pages and our article listings look very pretty, don't you agree?

We'll continue to add on to our history as we evolve!