It's All New. Petizens Features

We just added some awesome features to Petizens!! Check this out:

Themes! Themes! Themes! You don't have to start with a blank page now! You can have a really cool colorful scrapbook with one click! All themes can be customized to your liking and changed later. Each theme has a special combination of features from Petizens such as matching stickers, guestbook, friends panel, and color coordinated pages. You can use a pre-made theme to change your existing page also. It's a great start for a personalized scrapbook page!

Almost Magical Paying users can make, save and load as many themes as they desire now! You can make tons of cool themes to use later for your pet's scrapbook page. Everything will be exactly the same when you re-load your page. Now your page can, almost magically, be changed with the click of your mouse! To take advantage of this feature, you need to be a member. Memberships are super cheap and allow you to take full advantage of the features on Petizens. You can buy a monthly membership for $5, year-long membership for $25, or a life-time membership for $100!! Log in & click here for more information on memberships. 

What's your progress? There is a progress bar for any new user that hasn't completed some of the basic steps to make their pet's scrapbook page. Once you make it to 100%, you will receive a free two week membership to Petizens. This will let you try out our awesome features for paying members such as rotating photos, adding speech bubbles and removing advertisement!

We are inviting all users that haven't made it to 100% to come back and finish the steps so they can try all of the features of Petizens. You can get 40% by simply choosing one of our pre-made themes for your pet scrapbook page.

New user, great scrapbook page!!

Petizens Featured Pet of the Day: Annabelle is a Beagle / German Shepherd dog that just joined Petizens!! She is 5 years old and calls Massachusetts her home. She is already has made it to level 3!! Annabelle's mom decorated her scrapbook with a cute pink paw print theme with tons of fun animated stickers. There are hearts everywhere! Annabelle is the only girl in the house, but she is the boss according to her blog. Welcome Annabelle to Petizens by checking out her page!! 

(PS. Don't forget to check out the cute pictures on her page either!)

All of the Pieces Fit

Petizens Featured Pet of the Day: All of the pieces fit together on Cricket's summer page. His summer scrapbook page is decorated with a colorful jigsaw puzzle. He is a paying member and took full advantage of the member features like rotated photos and unlimited HTML text. He decorated his page with tons of great stickers such as ice cream cones, sunshine and a relaxing swimming pool. Cricket must be a part time model, because the photos on his page are amazing! He struck a cute pose for each photo! Cricket is from New Zealand and has reached level 18 on Petizens. His owner is Manxette. Give him some support and write on his guest book!! Check his page out, click here! 

Puddin' Britches

Petizens Featured Pet of the Day: Jake Puddin' Britches has an excellent summer page that features a 'hot' orange background. The page is covered in cute puppy photos and animated stickers such as an ice cream cone and dancing flowers! In Jake's speech bubble, he says "I love the dog days of summer." You can tell this is true with his fun scrapbook page and summer photos. He is from the United States and is owned by JMW59. Jake is on level 7 and has been on Petizens since July 3, 2009! Voting ends on August 3rd for the Summer Fun competition, so hurry up and vote! 

New to Petizens

Petizens Featured Pet of the Day: Casey's page is decorated with wooden planks as the background and lots of really cute dog pictures. Her pictures have fun frames around them which gives her page a nice touch. She is a new user on Petizens that calls Canada home. Casey is an adorable Dachshund that is only 5 months old. Her owner VP2211 has 2 dogs posted on Petizens. Check out Casey's page and welcome her to Petizens!! 

http://www.petizens.com/profile.php?pid=1793

We Don't Discriminate! Goats, Dogs, Cats: Everybody is Welcome!

Petizens Featured Pet of the Day: Mishak is a pet goat that is participating in the Summer Fun Competition on Petizens. His page has a fun rocky brown texture and is covered in fun goat pictures. He is a "tough guy" and enjoys sports cars and motorcycles. His page also has fun HTML and stickers all over it giving it a great summer look. He is on level 11 and is owned by Marg12 who is from South Carolina in the USA. Currently, he is in 7th place for the summer fun competition so come vote on his page to help him win!! 

Petizens is not your typical social network for pets, we welcome all pets- not just dogs and cats. We have a wide variety of pets on our site, and Mishak is a great example. We don't discriminate, dog, cat, bird, goat or whatever pet you may have: add them to Petizens today!

Pet of the Day!!

Petizens Featured Pet of the Day: FenHong is a pink Male poodle. Of course if you look close enough, his roots are white. His owner, Zhang dyes his fur about once per month to give him the gorgeous pink coat. His page is decorated in a bright summer theme because he is also participating in the Summer Fun Competition on Petizens. The background of his page is white with cute paw prints all over. His page is full of fun dog pictures and stickers that he found on Petizens. This cute dog calls China his home and loves to go on walks in the park. 

Check out this pink pooch at Petizens!! He is on level 10 and is an active user that has been with us for a long time. Help him out and vote on his page for the summer fun competition!! 

Killerstartups.com Article about Petizens. Please vote!!!

This article is from Killerstartups.com. Please help us by voting for the article. Click here and vote!

Petizens is a new social networking site. As its name suggests, it is geared towards pet owners and (of course) their mascots. Users can interact with each other in the vein that this kind of sites usually enable them to interact, and media showcasing their little friends at their finest can be put about and shared. Moreover, competitions are held regularly so that interaction between members is taken one step beyond. 

On the other hand, the network includes both a “Help” and a “Knowledge” section which can be consulted should you need some guidance as regards the care of your pet. A forum is likewise provided to these ends, and also for hanging out and socializing even more. 

When it comes to the actual creation of the profile pages, the company prides itself on applying a new approach, as it allows users to drag and drop components in order to build a profile page. This not only makes pages easier to build, but also more enjoyable and even more accessible – people are daunted if they have to start performing operations that are even slightly complex, and that can turn them off. In that sense, the team behind the project has made a wise move by placing usability so high on the agenda.

Pretty in Pink at Petizens

Petizens Featured Pet of the Day: Tiffany, a cute cat from New Zealand, decorated her pet scrapbook page with a light pink flower background. Her page has tons of cute cat photos including many summer fun pictures. Her profile is decorated with HTML moving images since she is a paying member and can add unlimited HTML text. Tiffany is a active user that is participating in the summer fun competition on Petizens. 

Tiffany is on level 17 and  is owned by Manxette. Tiffany is a Manx & Domestic Short Haired cat. Her photos are all finished off with a decorative frame to highlight the summer theme on her page. Check out her page and help her win!! 

Pages on Petizens are really easy to make and change, which is how so many users are able to change their pages to participate in the Summer Fun Contest. In a few minutes, their pages can be converted from a spring theme to summer! The themes are endless with the paying feature of HTML. Memberships start at $5. 

Ice Cold Drink on a Hot Summer Day

Featured Pet of the Day: Sit back and enjoy an ice cold drink on a hot summer day on Yuppy's Petizens Profile! The page is decorated with a light blue background that could brighten up any gloomy day. In addition to the many great summer pictures of Yuppy, the page has fun stickers including sun shine and delicious drink stickers. Yuppy is a paying member and took advantage of rotated photos and speach bubbles.

Yuppy is owned by our active user Charly who has two cats. Yuppy and her owner live in Belgium. Stop by their page and vote so they can win the summer competition!

Search for Some Sea Shells

Petizens Featured Page of the Day: Who doesn't like searching for sea shells by the sea shore? You can find tons of sea shells on Bawheid's Petizens page. He is a three year old black Mini-Lop rabbit from Scotland. Bawheid enjoys playing with his three doggy sisters who protect him from danger. The page is decorated with tons of HTML images including lots of fun characters from Alice in Wonderland and fun pool side images! Bawheid is participating in Petizens summer competition and had done an excellent job making his page look like summer! He is a paying user, so he can add as much HTML as he wants and he can rotate photos and add speech bubbles to his pictures! Come search for some sea shells on Baheid's sensational summer page! 

He is owned by our user Susan. Bawheid is on level 16 and is a very active paying user on Petizens. Congratulations and good luck on the competition!! 

Take a Trip to a Tropical Island on Benny's Page

Petizens Featured Page of the Day: Take a day trip to the beach and visit the tropical island of Benny's page! Benny is a Minature Pinscher / Fox Terrier mix from the United States. Benny recently got married and has many great photos on the beach with his wife, Watsie! They enjoy taking long walks on the beach together and sharing their love on petizens. The page is a sandy brown and decorated with ice cold drinks and many other great stickers. The final touch to the tropical paradise on Benny's page is the classic summer music that makes you want to have a night-time bon fire on the beach with your closes friends.

Benny is owned by our user maryalberts. Benny is a very active member on Petizens and has achieved level 18 (a very high level!) Congratulations to Benny and his owner!!

Summer Fun Competition!

Petizens is now hosting a Summer Fun Contest!! Create a summer themed page on Petizens and you could win one of three great prizes!

1st pet One year Gold membership + 25,000 Petopian$

2nd pet Six months Gold membership + 15,000 Petopian$

3rd pet Three months Gold membership + 10,000 Petopian$

Once you create your page, you can vote on other users profiles. The user with the highest weighted ranking will win! We have added lots of fun summer stickers and have thousands of custom backgrounds to choose from. It is really easy and fun to make a totally customized page. You can learn more about the competition here: http://www.petizens.com/competition.php

Some users have already created their summer fun page. You can see their masterpiece here:

Benny's Page

Baybie's Page

Hope to see you on Petizens soon!!

Valentine competition results

The Valentine competition has just finished. It was a very tight race from day one until the very last day. Princess took the lead from day one, but was pushed out several times by Reyes and Bobby. Yesterday Bert was on the top for a short while as well. 3565 votes were cast and a total of 31,683 points were given to the 122 participants.

The winner was Princess a beautiful Chihuahua dog from Glasgow, Scotland (Great Britain). For this competition the winner received 100,000 Petopian$, 2nd position 50,000 P$, 3rd position 25,000 P$ and each winner in each animal group 10,000 Petopian$.

Position (P$)	Name	WR	Avg	Animal
1 (110k P$)	Princess	86.80	90.8	Dog
2 (60k P$)	Bert	86.42	91.1	Dog
3 (35k P$)	Bobby	86.32	92.2	Dog
4 (10k P$)	Sammy	86.28	92.6	Other
5	Abigail	86.28	91.4	Dog
6 (10k P$)	Asterix	86.17	90.9	Cat
7	Onyx	86.16	91.5	Dog
8	Hector #1	86.06	92.7	Dog
9	Reyes	85.82	90.6	Dog
10	Karma	85.79	90.2	Cat
22 (10k P$)	Dina	85.08	95.7	Horse
31 (10k P$)	Baileys	84.74	94.6	Rabbit
39 (10k P$)	Cisco	84.53	91.4	Bird
96 (10k P$)	Sapienta	81.51	84.8	Reptile

If you missed this competition, don't worry, our next competition will be for Easter and it's guaranteed to be super cute!

Explanations to the table above:

WR: Weighted Ranking, a complex formula that counts total number of votes, the average vote and a minimum amount of votes. See our Help section for more details.

Total: Total score on the page, 10% of this score goes to your points, so Princess made 731.6points on her winning page

Votes: Number of votes cast on the page

Joined: Date for joining the competition, which officially started on the 6th of February.

Valentine Webpage competition has begun

Come and join our valentine webpage competition, we're open for any pet!

To make a valentine inspired page on Petizens.com is very simple; we're the first social networking site where you can actually make a page according to your wishes, you don't need to learn HTML, CSS or other complicated scripts. On Petizens.com just drag and drop photos, videos, blog, guestbook, etc to your page. Then you can resize them, change their backgrounds, fonts, captions, etc.

As you can see on Karma's valentine page (pictured here), you can put the stickers (small transparent animated or static images) anywhere on your page, to really personalize it. Further down on Karma's page there is a video player that plays music as well as lots of other pictures. You can make the page as long as you want and add as much fun stuff you like.

Want to try it out (without registering and uploading anything), then go to the Petizens Experience page!

Enjoy

Got our MySpace page up... finally

I knew that MySpace was VERY hard to use, but I had no idea that it would take me a week to be figure out how to make a page that would look like Petizens.com in look and feel. It took me only 10min on Blogger. No wonder that MySpace are losing users.
I kept searching for help on how to deal with the CSS for MySpace, but most people that made nice layouts for MySpace did it before the new 2.0 version of MySpace and they didn't update their CSS codes.
One of the reasons we made www.petizens.com was to let anyone make a nice customized page for their pet, I knew that MySpace had a million pet profiles, but clearly not many of them knew HTML or CSS, so they all looked more or less the same.

FaceBook is not much better, we made a user page there, a group page and a Fan page, but then we cannot invite our friends to these group and fan pages easily...

So, now Petizens got pages on several popular sites where we will update our friends on our progress and invite people to try a whole new experience.

Check out our pages on: FaceBook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr and Blogger

Frankie joins Petizens

This is a story about Frankie, an amazing Dachshund, that will show you even if life seems at it's end there is always hope:

On Easter Sunday 2006 Frankie ruptured a disk in her back and became permanently paralyzed. Frankie's owner, Barbara feared she had to put Frankie to sleep, but with a surgery the damaged disc was removed and Frankie's life was spared. It took six weeks of strict cage rest for Frankie to heal properly. Dachshunds are a breed that relish and thrive in being a part of the family, so she recevied a lot of love and care during her recovery.

As soon as her time was up of cage rest was completed, there was no stopping her. She immediately adjusted to her new life and began scooting around by pulling her front legs along. The loss of her back legs did not deter her one bit in going on with her life.

Frankie’s first time outdoors after her accident was a new adventure for her. Barbara let her snorkel around in the grass to her hearts content. She has always loved birds and especially loves to chase them. Just then, a big Robin hopped through the yard a few feet away. Frankie was off in a flash! She was that fast- and all with only two legs!

For another three months Frankie underwent physical therapy trying to walk, but her hind legs were paralyzed for life, she would never be able to walk and run like other dogs. Barbara ordered a set of wheels from Eddie’s Wheels (the owner started this company due to their dog, Daisy, also had the same injury).

We asked Barbara how she taught Frankie to walk (or should we say roll?). "If only it had been that easy. I used treats to entice Frankie and help her realize that her back end would roll instead of walk. The first few times out I felt like a child pulling a wheeled toy. Eventually, Frankie gained strength and now looks forward to her walks (or, as we say, rolls).

Soon thereafter many children saw Frankie in her wheels and Barbara told them the story about Frankie. Soon she was talking in schools and in hospitals, to tell children that there is always hope. Life is not over just because you're paralyzed. Life is worth living and Frankie is the happiest dog ever.

Check out Frankie's page on Petizens, write in her guestbook and check out her own site, Joyful paws.

Barbara has written a book about Frankie and you can buy this book on Amazon.

Petizens.com is now open for everyone

Petizens.com is the first website where you can make a free customized webpage for your pet.

To make a webpage is very easy, just drag and drop pictures, blog, guestbook, etc to anywhere on your webpage and drag to desired size.

Changing backgrounds, themes, photo frames, etc is just a click away. We allow unlimited photo and video uploads. Make friends with dogs, cats or other pets and rate their pictures and webpages.

Climb our toplists by making points, reach higher levels and make Petopian$ to buy super cool animated gifts for your friends.


Join our vibrant community and meet lots of nice people and pets!