I wanted to give you guys the scoop on what's been going on over at Jinglebell Junction. As most of you know, Jinglebell Junction partnered up with the Merry Network last year to bring you a new Christmas forum... Talk Christmas . I hope you will all come by and visit, and talk about Christmas with us!
Becoming affiliated with the great folks at the Merry Network has truly been a great experience. It has allowed me to branch out and create another great Christmas website... ChristmasFlick.com. This site is dedicated to Christmas movies past and present! I hope ya'll come visit. I'm always looking for input and feedback, so please feel free to send me e-mail with your comments and suggestions.
Not only has our new partnership allowed for two great new Christmas sites, it has also driven tons of new visitors our way! Christmas 2005 Jinglebell Junction saw about 4,000 hits for the season. Now, compare that to the OVER 300,000 hits for Christmas season 2006! It has truly been a great year, and I plan on adding TONS of new stuff for Christmas 2007. Once again, I am open to any suggestions, and I can always use new ideas, recipes, crafts or anything Christmas related for the site.
Let me tell you how Jinglebell Junction came to be
THE Merriest Christmas site on the web...
In 1999 I originaly built Jinglebell Juction over at Homestead, for friends and family
to share in the holiday spirit. I thought an interactive christmas site where we could
share recipes, traditions and such, would be fun and maybe help bring family closer
dispite the miles. Well, I didn't get as much response as I thought.
Soon after, Homestead decided to start charging their current customers for their free
web-sites. So I moved the site over to Yahoo! GeoCities. Seeing that Geocities had such
a huge community, I decided to send out the link, I left it here and there, joined a few
Christmas Yahoo groups, and a few webrings.
Soon I realized that it didn't have to be my family enjoying the site, bringing cheer to
ANYBODY felt good! And it still does! Jinglebell Junction is really a labor of love...
Over the years Jinglebell Junction has really grown...and so have I. I've learned alot of
cool stuff on the internet, for instance, I tought myself HTML. Yep, I started out using
a drag and drop web page builder. I've since graduated to coding my own pages. What started
out as just a small project as became my favorite hobby.
Here's just a few of Jinglebell Junction's milestones...
* September 2005, Santa gave us an early Christmas gift! Our very own domain!
* August 2006, The folks over at the Merry Network donated server space to Jinglebell Junction!
This cut the cost of over all operating expenses dramatically, and I can't thank them enough!
In addition to the gift of server space, they've also given Jinglebell Junction access to
Talk Christmas to use as our very own forum!
Special Thanks to Jeff Westover, who made it all possible.
* September 2006, I announced the arrival of the newest member to our family of Christmas web-sites, ChristmasFlick.com! ChristmasFlick was born from the need of a comprehensive, all inclusive, listing of Christmas
movies and Christmas TV specials.
Jinglebell Junction has been honored with several awards from various sites this year!
And I thank all of the great sites who awarded them to us!
Jinglebell Junction has also awarded a few special sites with our very own awards,
you can see a list here.
Jinglebell Junction is not my job, it's my passion!
I'm purely in it for the joy it brings...
I'm trying to give what can't be bought, a little thing called Christmas spirit!
So why don't ya'll stop on in and visit Jinglebell Junction?
