It’s the very first update to I♥Watson.net and it’s a pretty darn awesome one – I’ve got a long list of stuff to cover! – so fasten your seatbelts and let’s take off!

Two new pages in the website section – our awards and past layouts (don’t forget to check out the gorgeous complete layout archives sometime, you can find all the old layouts from all the old sites there!). Speaking of awards, we’ve already won one! Woo! Thanks to Natalie of the very awesome Rupert And Emma Fan for awarding us their Site Of The Month Award for January, 2007. We even got an awesome graphic for winning, so check that out too!

Sparkly! (the media section, in case you’d forgotten) got a lot of updates the last few days. 9 more wallpapers by Allison (that’s me!) and 3 more wallpapers by Lynn, so check those out! Lynn’s also added around 100 new icons in various sections (Emma, Costars, and Potter), so if you’re working on your LJ, don’t miss those. We’ve also uploaded a crazy 46 AIM icons and two bookmarks that were available on the old sites, so poke through those if you hadn’t already seen those.

We’ve all got more media additions planned to come very soon, so stay tuned and we’ll update you on that as soon as we’ve got more to add!

Finally, we’ll be submitting I♥W to various directories this week so as to be able to “spread the awesomeness”. You’ll be able to find all those on the “listed” part of the sidebar (see it? over there on your left?), and you should really check them out because there are some awesome directories. Keep checking our galleries daily, too, ’cause our own awesome Kaetlyn has been uploading like crazy to fill up those pages. We’ve got over a thousand premiere images already and thousands more to go, so don’t forget to bookmark our galleries as your new Emma image source!

Ooh, almost forgot! A few visitors alerted us to the fact that the site coding does not display well in resolutions over 1024 pixels. Thanks for letting us know, I’ll be looking into and trying to correct that over the next couple days.

So, that wraps up the first site update from IHeartWatson.net. Hope you enjoyed it, and come back soon for more!

EDIT: Speaking of directories; those of you whose sites are listed in emma links can remove the link, because I’m closing it. If anyone feel like taking it over, email me. I thought I’d just throw it in here :P - Lynn

EDIT: And speaking of coding! I’ve received a few complaints that the site doesn’t work in Internet Explorer. I’ve checked it multiple times and it looks just fine to me in both Firefox and Internet Explorer. If you’re having trouble, you’re probably using an old version of IE. Internet Explorer 7 is now officially released and you can download it from the Microsoft site here. Oh and old versions of IE can leave your computer vulnerable to viruses and the such, so updating would be a swell idea. Thanks, and good luck! - Allison & Kaetlyn

EDIT: The coding should now be working just peachily! Let me know if you run into problems.

EDIT: You can now download an “emm-azing” desktop calender for January 2007! visit here, as calenders are being added often. Enjoy! - Kaetlyn

Pip pip and Bernard’s your uncle, the big “surprise” is here! Woo! Lemme just do some explaining, just so we don’t get a million emails consisting of “omg y u lyk dis?!eleventy!”, which would really hurt our heads (especially mine, as I’m usually docked with all the chat speaking people, hurting my head)!

Anyway, here’s the jist (the really short version – you can view the long long looooooooooong version here) – you all know the fantasmic Emma sites Emma Love, Emma Online, Mystique and Emma Fans, right (you’d better!), right? Well, basically, we merged content, galleries, media and fanzone together, squished it into a pulp, ran it through a lawnmower and came out with this, brand spanking new Emma site, IHeartWatson.net.

This is a collaboration between the four webbies (who are not looking for co-webs), who are also coincidentally really good friends. Long story short – we merged and now we’re four times the awesome we were before. The site might not stay as IHeartWatson, and may change, but that comes later, when we’ve all had a talk. So yes. Collaboration (I love big words!).

Anyway, we have a heck of a lot of content on everything (and anything) Emma related, which includes things like quotes, sayings, outfits, funny faces, bits and pieces on Hermione and Harry Potter in general and just anything else that we could find. Also, we have two giant sub-sections. Sparkly! the media place and the the Gallery (which we haven’t given a funky name … not yet anyway), which features the best of the best Emma pictures (also heavily under construction, so you’ll be running into 404 pages every time you turn), in the best quality, so rummage around there! And last but not least, we have the awesome fanzone area, where you can participate in fun and games! Then the site/web section, which is just a lot of info on the site, the past sites and our affiliates.

Sounds like fun? Of course it is. It’s way more fun that even you could imagine! Ha!

It just occured to me, that some of visitors may have not liked one of the webbies/sites and blatantly vowed never to visit a site run by that person. Well, here’s some news: everything on this site has been broken up into sections and mostly, we have broken then up accordingly, so none of you know who did what, so that covers that. None of you also know who wrote what, who manages what and blah blah blah, so you can’t be biased, just like that. See, we planned this for a long long time!

Oh, and we are looking for some new affiliates, so feel free to apply. Oh, and donations – any type! – would be loved/admired/posted/thanked and credited. You can send a general email to the staff, or to a particular webmiss by adding their name to the following address: name@REMOVEiheartwatson.net. Don’t hesitate to contact us, we love getting emails. :)

Anyway, welcome to the new EmmaLove.org/Emma-W.com/Mystic-Magic.net/EmmaFans.net, enjoy your stay and leave lots and lots of comments to make us all feel very very heppy. H’okay? Oh, and if you can’t see/read/don’t want to know, the webmasters are the same ones from the site (no duh, Fred, huh?). Any problems should be directed at any of the staff, or though the contact page or through comments.

Long live IHeartWatson.net!