My site is in USA Today!

Wow !!!

Congrats Mr. Munday, you earned it! Thanks for allowing JREF to bask in your glow. Keep up the good work, maybe we'll see you on the world news some night.

Frank

👍
 
Thanks for the nice comment, Mr. White.

It took a heck of a lot of effort to build the name translator thingummy - and to get my boss to prioritize work on the site.... Finally it is paying off :).

(BTW, please call me Stephen ;) )
 
That's awesome! I'm a bit jealous...Just a little. But wow, congradulations. You should be extreamly proud.
 
Yeah, I flipped out this morning when I saw my site stats and the number one visitor source was USA Today! (It even beats the 10,000 I got in one day last week when the site was on www.i-am-bored.com!)
 
That is so cool! You obviously worked hard on it you deserve lots of success on this!
 
Thanks. I appreciate your encouragement. The thing about websites is that they are never finished, so there is still a lot of work to do.

Anyway, I have a press release out now so I hoping I can get the USA Today thing to snowball into more publicity from other sites. Our budget is so tiny, we have to make the most of anything :).

The reviews I like best, though, are the ones I get from satisfied customers, like this one I got this morning - "Thank you very much for your excellent customer service" - from a customer we did a special order translation for in MA, USA.
 
I always admire people with simple concepts that can potentially make things into a big success. I'm currently working on an Asian pop culture magazine, and a documentary on Hip hop/break-dance culture in Japan and I hope to achieve big success with both projects myself.
 
Absolutely Great !

Wonderful idea ! - am glad you're already having a success !

Boy ! You must have put a lot of work into that !

Best Regards, and good luck with the site ...

ニ淡ニ停?。ニ停? (Sorry - I got that worked out before I visited your site .... ! ...but it did help with my last name, though!)
 
Hey Jon / John, glad you liked it.

Actually the Japanese web designer here (=in Japan) and my programmer colleague in India deserve a lot of the credit.

BTW, the USA Today story has now been archived so that we are not on the front page anymore, but you can still see it here:

USATODAY.com - Hot Sites
 
Hmm, it told me that my name was ニ嘆ニ椎槌停?? I had always thought it was ニ丹ニ椎槌停?? It nailed my last name, though, and that's not that easy to do.
 
Oops! Sorry about that, Glenn. You are right that it should have output ニ丹ニ椎槌停?? I have changed the settings now, so your name is corrected. Thanks for the feedback - I appreciate it!
 
No problem! :-) I'm still impressed that it got my last name! 👍
 
Of course, it is not foolproof, but if you have a tricky name, you can always just input it phonetically and you should get the right / 95% right answer.

Thanks for the compliment!
 
OH BOY !

....Just revisited the site today ... tried the 'Katakana' animated writing tool ...!

That's FUN ! Most impressive - gives you a real idea of the strokes. Cool!

You have a winner there, young man !

Regards

ニ淡ニ停?。ニ停?
 
Thanks Jon!

Glad you liked it.

There is a katakana writing tutor and a hiragana writing tutor too. Be sure to check them both out.

You can make learning katakana a bit more fun by putting different names into the translator, practicing reading them (checking yourself against the pronunciation audio files) and then trying to write them using the writing tutor as a reference.
 
Thats my "Car"

If by "Car" You mean "RC Car". If you look closely you can tell its an RC. Its one of my hobbies.
 
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