All-New Website Coming Soon

Hi all! I am just writing this quick message to let you all know that Metazoica will be undergoing some changes. I want to make the website a lot more fun and interesting, so I am looking into some developers who can help me out. I've got several candidates. When the site is all finished, it's going to display more than is on there now. Hopefully better. I'm thinking about making it like a walk through a zoo, or maybe perhaps in the form of an online book. I'm also thinking about changing the homepage. Anyway, it's going to go through an entirely new makeover, which hopefully will be better. I am also hoping the designer I choose will give me more attention than the last designer I had for my other website, and give me more of what I want. If any of my viewers have any further suggestions of what you'd like to see, please leave them in your comments to this post. I'm thinking of fixing the Meet the Mammals portion of this site so that I cover every species of every family on the updated checklist. It's going to take a while, but hopefully we can get it basically done before the end of next month. The people applying for the job seem to be pretty fast workers, and all have great experience in all types of development. I'm hoping this works out.

Don't think I have forgotten about the promise I made about putting animated movies about some of the animals on the site. But that comes much later. Believe it or not, I've even found some people who can help me with that! But I am thinking of putting the movies in a members only area. That is, only those who donate to the site can view the movies. I'm not positive, but I think I may even have to go so far as to switch servers. I don't want to though. If I do, that'd be a big bummer!!! I like where the site is parked now. But anyway, keep your eyes open for the new website! I think you're going to like it.

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