OAA Website Update
January 18, 2004
Ryan Masaaki Yokota, UCLA M.A. Candidate and OAA Website Update Developer, speaks at the 2004 OAA New Year's Party.
Chaganjyu!
It is with great happiness and hope that I speak to you today at our annual new years event.
This year was a fruitful year for the OAA website in that we were able to redesign the website to increase its aesthetics and also develop a structure that would allow the site to grow in the future. Frequent updates were made to the news updates section and to the upcoming events sections, which increased the functionality of the website beyond its more static nature before. In this regard, it is the fervent hope of the web team to make the OAA a great online resource for information related to our organization.
To give you an idea of the reach of the website, from January 20, 2003 until today, which is almost a full year, there have been 2,157 unique visitors to the website. By unique visitors, we mean that these are users who are going to the website for the first time and are not repeat visitors. We average 165 unique hits per month, and though it is often difficult to track these things, at least 10% of our traffic is from people in Japan. As you can see, our website is a great tool for outreach to those people who have internet access and want to learn about our activities.
Our website is currently hosted through the generosity of Wataru Ebihara and the Little Tokyo Service Center, whose JANet service has been kind enough to give us the server space and support. Our web advisors team consists of:
Chogi Higa
Ken Kamiya
Jane Kuniyoshi
Helene Shimane, and
Aiko TokunagaMieko Shima and Yoko Maeda serve as Proofreaders for the website.
Sadao Tome is the main editor and I am the website developer. All told, we are extremely excited about the growth of the website and look forward to developing it further. If you have not done so already, please visit the website, and drop us a line if you have any comments on how to improve our site.
Thank you!
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